Star Wars Galaxies

Originally posted by morpheus2n

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Galaxies

Scroll to the bottem and you'll see theres a quote from dead meat if you also look at the SWG forums he makes a post there about the numbers each time thay drop alot. (although i havn't been to the site for a long time) but you can all belive what you like as there is no offical relase of numbers so noone will know. As a post starting "A Freind told me" is bound to be shit

And yes im a vet but unlike most I hate this game due to the fact that its beyond help

Nice one

Subscriber numbers

Veteran designer, Raph Koster, helmed the development and initial launch of the game. Many industry professionals expected that the subscription numbers would exceed the one million mark, a feat accomplished only thus far in Asia by MMORPGs such as Lineage and more recently by World of Warcraft.^[53] Based on NPD figures as of February 2004, SWG sold more than 300,000 boxed copies at retail for a total initial revenue of over $18 million. Sony Online Entertainment confirmed in March 2004 that there were well over 200,000 monthly subscribers making it the 2nd largest MMORPG in North America.^[54] The company later reported in 2004 that they had 250,000 subscribers.^[55] In August 2005, Sony Online Entertainment reported that they had now sold 1,000,000 boxed copies of the game.^[56] Media sources reported that the subscriber numbers have fallen substantially since the release of the CU and the NGE.^[57][58] In early 2006 after the NGE, allegedly "hacked" numbers purported to show that only 10,363 subscribers were playing on a particular Friday night. The President of Sony Online Entertainment, John Smedley, denied that subscriptions had fallen this low: "Have the numbers in Star Wars Galaxies gone down? I will tell you that the concurrent numbers have gone down. Are they as low as what was shown there? Absolutely not."^[59]

As of the second quarter of 2006, according to charts at MMOGchart.com, there were estimated to be between 110,000 and 175,000 subscribers. A more recent update from MMOGdata.com which uses the previous data from MMOGchart.com, estimates that the game has about 49,000 subscribers as of April 2007.^[60] However, both MMOGchart.com and MMOGdata.com rated the subscriber number estimates at a "C" confidence level which mean they are "merely industry 'best guesses' or are otherwise questionable" due to SOE not releasing SWG subscriber numbers.^[61][60] Posting on the official forums, Lorin Jameson (SOE Producer, Star Wars Galaxies, forum name "DeadMeat") has refuted the latest figure: "I think I am safe in saying the 50K number is vastly wrong."^[62]

In October 2007, Primotechnology.com reported that; "It’s estimated that the game now has over 75,000 subscribers and more than 55,000 active players.^[63