Popular at launch, seeing a drop off after 2-3 months to a stable base that will be healthy enough. P2P is not a particularly popular model these days and there is a lot of competition. MMo have a hard time expanding numbers like the old days and its common to see people play for a few months and then jump ship to the next big thing (that's probably F2P).*

Launch will be ropey, but I'm hoping for the best.

*im neither here nor there on P2P vs F2P models, I think they both have a place. Just saying.