So many fail don't know where to start1. Yes but don't mean it is not failing
Your definition of "failing" is irrelevant. Its not failing in the ways that matter.
2. You do know SWTOR have been released in Asia right, along with all of Europe and North America? SWTOR has pretty much hit all the market audience on planet earth already. I mean the only place that is not officially released is probably Africa. But I doubt starving Ethiopian children want to play SWTOR.
It has not. It has been released in Oceanic territories which only include Hong Kong and Singapore. It has not seen wide release in Asia. In fact its only recently seen wide-release in EU and ME.
3. SWTOR had a box sale of almost 3 million now, and the last time it was counting the sub was down to 1.3 million, that is more than a 50% drop. And this number is inflated with the free 30 days as well.
Box sales have never been an indictation of MMO health. Longevity has data 1, data 2.
4. Did they said how long do they need the 500k? 1 month? 1 year? 10 year? Judging by the amount of sub they are bleeding, I don't think they will have more than 500k by next year.
This idle speculation is not supported by recent MMO trends. I also already linked the original article and the data to support these claims.
5. LOL... I really don't know where to begin with this one... just so many fail squeezed into so few text... But please see this reference to explination http://www.torstatus.net/shards/us/trends
I've said this before but torstatus only tracks player activity, not subscriptions. In the beginning of SWTOR there was a report of mean average player activity of 7 hours a day. That was the mean of all players. Of course player activity is going to trend down from there. No industry analyst uses TORstatus to trend subscription health, its just the best friend of forum trolls like you who wish to deceive people who don't understand how MMO launches work.
Apple use slave labor... lol another common misconception by hippie Americans, Apple's manufacturing plant is located in China, it is a Taiwanese company called Foxconn setting up shop in China, they are actually paying above standard wage for the Chinese workers than most of the comparable factory in that area. The reason they have lower salary compare to USA is because the labor is cheaper, they have more population, they have lower standard of living, not everyone owns a car there. But it does not mean people work as slaves, most of the labor work there have enough money for housing, food, unities and at the end of the month + left overs, most of the worker have enough money to send back to their home villages to support their elderly. And people who does not do that can keep the expandable money they earn on the leisure consumer goods.
Its inexcusable that you would be an apologist for slavery and openly lie about things like this.
China is the world's 2nd largest economy for a reason, you don't became that base on "slave" labor, in fact, it has been proven that actual force/slave labor actually have much lower productivity than willing workers. You whole notion that China is full of slaves.. Apple is using slaves is nothing but bull and ignorance to the most degree.
More apologetics for slavery. Educate yourself. You sound like a far right industrialist loon. You should be ashamed of yourself for lying to people about this.jackliu239
I don't feel like spending a lot of time arguing with someone who is intentionally lying to people, so I let my sources do most of the talking.
*EDIT* One more addendum since you are apparently stupid and don't know how deep Apple is into this Foxconn slavery debaucle found here. Professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley does a detailed report on the gigantic percetage of of Foxconn products Apple uses (accounting for 40% of Foxconn's total income) and goes into details on the story, even explaining how he in 2010 organized an effort to get Apple to use their leverage to force Foxconn to improve their working conditions which Apple IGNORED until this story made national headlines. I think your stupidity has been made apparent to all. I'm done with you.
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