There has been a trend I have noticed getting larger and larger with the MMO scene, and that is certain people sitting in on the quarter reports for publishers (like Activision and EA) to get an idea of subscription numbers. They then report these numbers on the various news websites or message boards so everyone knows if the game is either dropping or growing.
Now, I know businesses like to post numbers when they go up, but I don't remember it being such a big trend to report losses. It seems to be something only the players/ex-players get into a damn frothing craze over. When did this happen? Why should I even care?
I guess I am just annoyed, because all it does it create a huge backlash of shit throwing. Just yesterday posts were coming out that WoW has stabilized at over 10 million, while SWTOR has lost 400k subscribers. How is knowing this information going to help anyone? SWTOR players or anti-WoW players are now coming out of the woodwork to bitch about "falsified, unfair" information and troll, while the WoW players are just acting like cocky doofuses waving their MMO E-Peen around and making the community once again look like a bunch of asshats.
Come on people, let's leave the BUSINESS REPORTS to the businesses and get back to playing the games we like because we like them, not because it has more numbers then the other guy. Who cares if a game loses subscribers, as long as you have people to play with at all it shouldn't matter.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest somewhere that I know wouldn't turn into a further shit slinging fest.
Now, I know businesses like to post numbers when they go up, but I don't remember it being such a big trend to report losses. It seems to be something only the players/ex-players get into a damn frothing craze over. When did this happen? Why should I even care?
I guess I am just annoyed, because all it does it create a huge backlash of shit throwing. Just yesterday posts were coming out that WoW has stabilized at over 10 million, while SWTOR has lost 400k subscribers. How is knowing this information going to help anyone? SWTOR players or anti-WoW players are now coming out of the woodwork to bitch about "falsified, unfair" information and troll, while the WoW players are just acting like cocky doofuses waving their MMO E-Peen around and making the community once again look like a bunch of asshats.
Come on people, let's leave the BUSINESS REPORTS to the businesses and get back to playing the games we like because we like them, not because it has more numbers then the other guy. Who cares if a game loses subscribers, as long as you have people to play with at all it shouldn't matter.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest somewhere that I know wouldn't turn into a further shit slinging fest.