Originally Posted by drae 
I know SWTOR is doing worse than expected but what do these lay offs have to do with anything
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SWTOR still have over 1millions paying subs. I don't think it's doing worse than expected by EA (the game is supposed to be profitable at 500k subs according to their finance chief).
There is also a lot of "big" MMO releasing lately (Tera, Secret World). I can see lots of MMO tourists visiting other games.