Server population is getting ridicolous down by 70%

daym im dumb can you explain the graphs to me!

This guy is in for a rude awakening when he hits 50...

Ive played MANY SINGLE PLAYER GAMES with more content available than this MMO once you 'beat it'. Its pretty friggin sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...e_Old_Republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wa...The_Sith_Lords

There is a reason they are calling this the sequel to these games. It is because it is extremely close to it.

after all you have been waiting for, was it 10 years? or 20.

heheh Im doing both!

This past week I worked Rep side just to get legacy name there and get some crafting to level (as well as start 3 more crafter characters there)

Next week ill be back to Imp characters

Ive talked to a number of people and a person even came from my imp server to join a buddy and my group (well she started 2 character to catch up but thats stalled now).

ALLOT of feedback I hear from players (and my own as well) is Republic side is sop depressing to play because Bioware made it more corrupt and slimy and sleezy then the Imperials!

Yes the imps have slavery and Sith absolutes.
But once your past that, every imperial person you meet isnt looking to screw the empire.

In fact at the Droid Factory on Balmorra, the Empire has one of the best storylines showing a wounded soldier who beleives in his culture and government so much he refuses to let his fellow soldiers death be in vain!

Flip to Republic and on a planet (to avoid spoilers) you have a republic officer stealing life giving supplies (and needed repairs) from his troops to buy wines and luxery cloths for himself. And this is followed up by a squad of so called loyal soldiers going AWOL because the republic treats them so badly and has lied to them so often!

Anouther planet has a highly decorated group switching sides.

Another planet has local magistrate dealing with underground and then betraying the underground and using republic forces/personal to bail him/her out

On another planet...

Well you get the idea

The Republic is suppose to be the good guys and yet they are protrayed as the most corrupt, dishonest, disloyal, abussive side of the 2.

Bioware went to far trying to make the Imps not Evil and the Republic not good for the vocal minority that was moaning about that!

Its depressing and I honestly find myself not able to handle long periods of Republic storylines as its just filled with corruption and slime.

I mean, compared to the Republic in this game, the HUTTS ARE LOYAL AND HONEST.

I wont lie, I entered TOR thinking id play a jedi knight and fight the empire and the sith.

By the end of Coruscant and first area of Taris I found myself wanting to go darkside and start murdering all political figures and all republic soldiers. So I stopped playing that character in beta and rolled a Sith Inq and played it full on darkside/evil. And other then my inq trainer (do the storyline and see) I never really felt the desire to kill my fellow sith and imperials like I constantly did as a Jedi Knight.

I know Im not alone in this and I know a fair number of people that went empire because of this.

Yes the game is well written and interesting
But many of us just come to conclussion that we really dont want to support the republic storywise with how its been protrayed.

Seriously Bioware? Would it have been so bad to have the empire as our mortal enemies rather then the local mayor or administrator or senator?

If the single player story of this game was actually even 50% as good compared to RPGs like Baldur's Gate 2, System Shock 2, Deus Ex etc... I would have zero complaints.

But it's not.

It's "go to an instanced zone to kill x mobs". Run around, and do it again. Repeat. That, and 97% of the actual pve content is non-class related, of which 99% is kill x mobs in location y.

Even the main story follows a complete grind mechanism (complete 2 planets to actually advance in your class story in any meaningful way). Every planet is structured in the exact same way. Once you've done balmorra, you've done every planet in the game. Only the meaningless clutter changes. Content stays exactly the same.

Companions are a joke.

If you've played a sith inquisitor, and then play a bounty hunter, you can see how the stories advance exactly in the same way, in the same areas (with almost zero deviation), with the same objectives.

There is ZERO innovation, inspiration, or real effort on the class quests. The story is just completely hollow, and it basically shines through how the people working on this game were just doing it for the money, instead of actually doing a good game/story.

Haha.

Not likely. I know exactly what I am getting at lvl 50, however I don't plan on playing there that long. Maybe a week or two and them I'm starting my second character. I'll be waiting more more content in later patches. I knew exactly what this game was before I started.

It's okay...

There are a few really high population servers out there and the people playing on them are generally clueless about how bad it is out there for the 'once highly populated servers'.

You are going to get the "I play on Swiftsure and there are no problems with populations in the game," kind of responses which are just ignorant and uninformed.

My server pop is way down on both sides (have a Consular and a BH on the same server). It makes the game feel completely lifeless to play on a server like the one I am on. I started going around to all the planets taking screenshots but got tired of the load screens to do so and no matter what people are going to try and dismiss your claims...even if you intent is just to ask for server mergers or transfers.

I might (as in really big maybe) reroll my consular on a pvp because getting ganked by Imps with nothing to do is better than playing the game on a completely dead server. Then again, I don't know if I am willing to waste my time rerolling....

TL;DR:
When there are more people standing in front of the AH in WoW at 3am then there are people on all the planets combined in TOR at peak hours...that server has a problem.

Honestly the idea is to be able to play KOTOR with your friends in your group.

IDK if you meet the requirements to experience that.

What part of your post relates to my post? I know about those SINGLE PLAYER games. Heck, I've even got the audiobooks!

Not interested in single player (well not all the time, sometimes it's nice to he on your own, but knowing that there are other REAL people around.)