EA Blames Casuals For Falling Old Republic Subscriber Numbers

[MetallicaRulez0]

From my experience with the game, this is exactly the opposite of what I would expect. All of my hardcore friends have dropped this game because it's boring as fuck at max level. It's a WoW clone, except everything at max level is strictly worse than it's WoW equivalent right now. Plus, NO ADDONS. Deal breaker.

The leveling up part of the game was easily the best part. Great characters, great stories for the most part. I have no idea why anyone would Sub to this for more than the 2 months or so it takes to level a few characters.

I still plan to pick the game up for another month or two soon, once they implement addons. It's a really great single player experience. It simply has no longevity. That's a pretty damning complaint for an MMO.

 

[IronicBeet]

Alright, so first it was just whiners, then it was homophobes, then it was gamers with "entitlement issues" (I'm not going to just say entitled because that's the wrong fucking word for what they were trying to describe), and now it's casuals.

Keep blaming everybody but yourself, EA! I'm sure it will end up working in your favour.

 

[Zeetchmen]

So they first blamed hardcore gamers for blazing through and leaving too fast, than homophobes, and now casuals?

Whats new?

 

[Eric Morales]

All in all I hope TOR ends up going down in the annals of history as a moderate success, and I hope it encourages EA to aim higher and even after all this Mass Effect ending mess I still have tons of good will towards BioWare and I'd hate to think they took a gamble on a project and lost.

I admit to being torn here. There are two messages I want SW:TOR to convey to the industry:

1. You can't beat WoW by cloning WoW's gameplay and interface

2. The emphasis on narrative, characters and storytelling can make a better MMO.


There's no way to say this without sounding like a fanboy but I think Guild Wars 2 takes both lessons to heart. *Fingers Crossed*

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Its not the casuals that left its the exact opposite. The hardcores left cos they hardcored their way through what little content there is. The casuals are still playing cos they only have 1 or 2 50s and haven't got sick of the boring, repetitive, linear content yet.

1.3 is not even a content patch so there is still not much of it and the hardcores will/have left. The only way you can be a hardcore at TOR is if you have memory lapses so you can forget the story and play it again and forget that you have done the dailies 50 bazillion times already, still trying to get all the legacy unlocks and save up for future ones cos there is no other way to make money cos there is no economy, so you will think its your first day doing them.

 

[Fbuh]

Played 200 hours of TOR in my free month, so I hardly played it casually, but didnt keep subbing. It was just wow in space.

That's what I've heard, and since I'm playing WoW now, I'm not about to jump over to another pay-to-play game.

They're ging to lose an even larger number of subscribers once Mists of Panderia comes out, too.

 

[Brett Bowling]

"Of course they're more important than PGA Golf, the new water cooler in the lounge is more important than that"

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Medal of Honor made money?

[sub][sub]Must... not... add... "u"... to... "honor"[/sub][/sub]

IT'S A SPY! KILL THE SPY!

anyway, So EA said something asstarded. This is not news

EA has been a howling pack of nitwits since at LEAST the gamecube era, if not before then.

 

[Shavon513]

Yeah, casuals. I have six or seven friends, and I, who all dropped playing sw:tor for various reasons. Not because we were casual gamers, but because of the DRM Origin and the fact that the mmo sucked.