50 million what..? lol

[demonskies]

http://www.examiner.com/article/anal...illion-players

Free to play may be good for the game to get a few hundred thousand people in the game maybe even a million or 2 un paid freemium accounts but 50 million yowza. What are your guys thoughts on this Analyst lol? I stopped playing a while ago but watch the tor forums and here if any big news comes out because Id still like it to succeed and come back maybe one day and xpac or good content hits.

[ScottsdaleHokie]

I can also pull numbers out of my ass, which is essentially all this "ANALyst" did.

[Profyrion]

I'll believe it when I see it. I think it's pretty silly though, on the whole.

[demonskies]

hahahaha its a pretty ridiculous number

[Edge-]

Lol, it's Michael Pachter. I'm hoping the info that he sells to investors through Wedbush is a lot better than what he says publicly, because he's got a history of making either painfully obvious statements or being horribly, horribly wrong.

If he's talking about how the total MMO market has upwards of 50 million players that can be tapped into, sure. But there's no single game that can tap that many total players (concurrently at least).

redit: I'm convinced Michael Pachter is just trolling us now.

[Kalyyn]

Huh. Well, it's possible, I suppose. I would say it's not likely, but I'm not a market analyst so I'll just shut up when one is talking.
It would be nice to have some more customers for my crafted armors. Although, more customers also means more competition...

[Anjerith]

This is simply further proof that this guy has no clue and happened to luck out during the Wii-era of console popularity in becoming the "Voice of the Industry".

[RoninaThorstone]

If he's talking about how the total MMO market has upwards of 50 million players that can be tapped into, sure.

I think even that is a bit of a stretch in this economy.

And also, down right incorrect given that swtor hasn't launched in much of the eastern market.

The western market is also leery of F2P because they haven't been exposed to them nearly as much as the eastern market.

There's many mitigating factors that, I think, will keep swtor around 800k subscribers with maybe 400k-800k active F2P accounts (fluctuations due to events and competition)

[Deleted]

SWTOR predicted players: 50,000,000
World population: 7,000,000,000
Ratio: 1:140
Internet users @ end 2011: 2,267,233,742
Ratio: 1:45

It seems way too much.

[Edge-]

I think even that is a bit of a stretch in this economy.

And also, down right incorrect given that swtor hasn't launched in much of the eastern market.

The western market is also leery of F2P because they haven't been exposed to them nearly as much as the eastern market.

There's many mitigating factors that, I think, will keep swtor around 800k subscribers with maybe 400k-800k active F2P accounts (fluctuations due to events and competition)

The size of the total MMO market (F2P included) is massive. So F2P game can potentially tap 50 million, it's just super hard.

The Western market is less leery of F2P than you might think, that's one of the reasons so many games have successfully transitioned to one form of F2P or another and seen big boosts in revenue.

[SirRobin]

I'm convinced Michael Pachter is just trolling us now.

I keep thinking that its either another desperate attempt by him to get attention... Or he is desperately trying to get hired by one of these publishers. He reminds me of those "bought" critics who say wonderful things about horrible movies.

[Deleted]

its almost as funny as their analysis when they said this game would succeed

Infracted

[Forsedar]

its almost as funny as their analysis when they said this game would succeed

Either post constructively or not at all. A comment like that will only lead to bad, bad places.

[Deleted]

I think the amount is ment to describe the possible amount of clients.
Not the number they actually think it'll attract.

[Knighthonor]

Yall do know this is possible from accounts and beta accounts being added together... well not really, but you get the idea..

[Speedlance]

Swtor yea, people didn't quit because it was a subscribed based game, it just wasn't good enough for todays standards., wow did after all put the bar very hig. (easly noticeable when blizzard makes changes)

[SirRobin]

Well Facebook has eighty plus million fake accounts so of course TOR could have fifty million players. So could WoW, AoC, and my mother. So possible? Yes. Likely? Snowball's chance in hell comes to mind...

[Deleted]

50 millions ? I say 50 billions ! SWTOR going FTP will attract players from Galaxy far, far away.

[Deleted]

Is it april already? Because this guy is a fool...

[Festisio]

Before Launch Pachter thought that 1.5 million people would go for the 6month sub.

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1152626...h_pachter.html