I think there's a couple things to take into account. Launching a game as F2P and converting to F2P after a loss of 1 million suscribers are two completely different things. I've played the game since launch and generally have had a great time. It's pretty amazing to me that a company can muck up a game with so much potential so FAST! The majority of the people I've played with left for the following reasons and myself shortly:
- The game is a WoW clone. Face it.
- No world PVP. This was a big reason. Ilum could not have been more of a disaster. Between the lag and the farming, holy hell. Now it sits a dead planet.
- We can only run the same 4 WZs over, and over, and over. There's never any NEW CONTENT or OPEN WORLD pvp. Yes, I can ride around Ilum randomly finding other players but what the heck is the point? Need some open world pvp with objectives that doesn't suck. See GW2.
- The whole dead server issue that they dropped the ball on, I've had to reroll three times before getting to the Fatman. And then we don't even get to pick where our toons go when they do transfer them. Nice job.
- Legacy perk is stupid.
- Cartel coins can purchase "boosts". Yup, that's P2W. Denying that was like denying the game is going F2P or wasn't losing suscribers by the boat load.
- Ranked WZs. Probably will never get off preseason. How can you rank 5 or 6 teams of 8? That whole thing being delayed over and over was a disaster and honestly is useless. Maybe some cross server PVP WZs? Ridiculous how that has not been implimented yet, there's only a few servers left!
- Content updates are always delayed or a joke.
I'll stick around until GW2 comes out then switch to F2P. Might be back if EA get's their stuff together but judging by it's past - that's a lost cause. So much wasted potential.
**que song "Another One Bites the Dust**
