What is EA doing wrong?

[shio]

Gnizmo said:

shio said:

 

Many MMOs have their number of subscriptions go down soon after the release, but that doesn't mean it's a flop. Even though alot of servers were closed, that doesn't mean it's a flop. Warhammer Online has 300k people, which is more than enough to make some big bucks, probably more than Mass Effect 2 will. MMOs keep making money for years.

As for Spore, it went as expected by EA, atleast according to their financial report. I don't think anyone ever expected to reach the levels of The Sims.

It has already go down to a third of its peak subsubcribers (and still shrinking I'd wager) and lost 3/4s of their servers for NA. The game is floundering badly. Once the negative trend hits there is no saving a MMO. Shrinking never reverses itself. The game is dying, and rather rapidly from the looks of it. Total flop. If you knew anything about the MMO market you would understand that much.

Tell that to Age of Conan, which most thought it was a much bigger flop than Warhammer Online, and now is increasing it's subscriptions.