I'm very sorry to hear about the layoffs and I hope that those affected bounce back and are doing well. I have to say the drop in subscriptions, the now lighter server populations, and now this don't have me feeling the most confident about the possible future of TOR. That being said I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. Could we please get some good news about the game and development?

I'm more than a little unhappy about the decision to give all level 50 characters a free month, however I won't be quitting a game over something I never had to begin with. I think it is a nice gesture but that it excludes parts of the community who have been experimenting with different classes/faction/servers or who just don't have enough time in their busy schedules to play enough to get to 50. My personal pass time in many an MMO has been PvP, and given the excellent bolster mechanic I haven't felt the need to raise any of my level 20 or 30 characters to 50 with any sense of haste. In conclusion: not very happy, about the exclusionary criteria for the free month

So from what I can tell purple crystals are in the game as I've seen one player in a Warzone with one but have been unable to find them . . . so what does one need to do to get one?

I'm curious as to if anyone knows how many people a server can handle before it becomes "full"?

I think that is the only reason we are moving up in the queue, nobody is actually leaving to make room rather people in the front of the queue are getting moved to the back.

Or character transfers at this point, hate to waste 12 hours on a character only to have to abandon it because of a long queue.

I'd be happy with a free character transfer to a low population server so as to avoid the queue times. I keep getting error messages and pushed to the back of the queue which is really frustrating. The only reason I'm on this particular server is because I have friends and guildies on it.