Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[Sonofbaldo]

Not gonna happen until more accounts are purged from boredom. SE seems to refuse to list an amount of active subscriptions so that could be telling. Though it's not like it takes that many subs to make an MMO profitable.

But hey, the game is already mass discounted. I bought mine for like 90% off on the Playstation Network and they're already introducing Refer A Friend Rewards so the influx of new subs must have already died down suggesting word of mouth is not good.

Frankly I'm not surprised. A casual gamer can complete this game as it stands right now in under 2 months. There's no staying power beyond that at the moment. It seems a lot may be riding on this expansion but I'm banking on it being more of the same. So I'm guessing the game will continue to bleed subs with little influx to counter the bleeding.

[Velhart]

Not gonna happen until more accounts are purged from boredom. SE seems to refuse to list an amount of active subscriptions so that could be telling. Though it's not like it takes that many subs to make an MMO profitable.

But hey, the game is already mass discounted. I bought mine for like 90% off on the Playstation Network and they're already introducing Refer A Friend Rewards so the influx of new subs must have already died down suggesting word of mouth is not good.

Frankly I'm not surprised. A casual gamer can complete this game as it stands right now in under 2 months. There's no staying power beyond that at the moment. It seems a lot may be riding on this expansion but I'm banking on it being more of the same.

Its a common thing with major MMO's. WoW even at it's pinnacle was still using discounts and free trials to get people in. Major sales usually happen at launches or when an expansion is released. In the in between time, they need to use various methods to get that small amount in. It works pretty well actually, probably one of the smaller reasons that WoW got to such it state it did.