Server Population is GROWING!

Honestly, on the two servers I play on (one heavy/very heavy, one standard/heavy at prime time), I don't see much trend one way or the other. Populations are pretty stable, maybe a bit of an uptick looking at lower zones. But lots of activity going on at all levels of game play, and new players are clearly present in the lower zones (obviously not rerolls because they are asking newbie questions in /general).

On the light servers, which frankly in NA have been light since launch day, I do believe there are declining play because people are taking their fate ito their own hands and rerollng to higher pop servers. Some are of course impaient and unwilling to reroll so they unsub instead.

I agree.

Very much agree. The fact is that now days, when a new MMO launches the MMO player base jump it like a fat kid on cake. A good number of them over play the new MMO and gorge themselves on it until they run out of cake. Then they whine and demand more cake, or leave in anger driven by sugar withdrawal. Depending on the MMO, this takes anywhere from 30-60 days. After that, the anxious angry impatient folks leave and hunt for their next sugar fix. The rest stay and continue to play and enjoy the game.

It takes 3-4 months before a game company knows what their stable population is, and opening character transfers or server consolidations before this makes little sense from a business standpoint.

General Note: the trend in newer MMOs is to develop character transfers and then issue vacate orders on dead servers and shut them down, NOT merge servers. Servers merges is kind of old school for MMOs.

Crafting is getting some major love next month in patch 1.2

Nonsense.

You are making that up because you simply have no way of knowing this unless you data farmed 200+ servers on their daily populations (which would be a tedious manual exercise). And frankly if you did have the data, your hate for the game would demand that you paste it all over every thread in the forum.

links abound around these forums telling you what I just said to be accurate. people need to stop arguing this because it is counter productive.

Instead of arguing the FACT that subs are dropping, try contributing to fix the problem. Why is it dropping? What can be done to bring in fresh meat?

Arguing this kinda of nonsense does nothing to help the game improve or subs rise.

Irony

Note: the title of this thread is "Server Population is GROWING" and plenty of annecdotal evidence has been shared by many here to support this claim.

Hoenstly, you need to be posting over in the population is dropping thread, because you have contributed nothing productive to this thread IMO. You are off-topic in this thread. You simply keep stating the same doom and gloom propaganda over and over again.

These 'facts' you are talking about have been debunked countless times...even by the people who created the sites.

I would like destroy this thread because it is HARMING the future of this game. I am helping, you are not.

link or liar

remember already, your credibility is shot as far as I am concerned.

Now, this statement I actually believe.

They'll still refuse to admit short comings of the game and insult you and call you troll. Stop trying to be productive!!! What are you thinking???

They have something (dunno what) to defend at all costs...

BTW - To the guy playing for 2 weeks. I was like you, it was all shiny and new, and I took my time going through each planet, finding datacrons, doing bonus series, some flashpoints, but after a month or so the luster wore off and I could see flaws in the foundation. I play with a smaller tight group of individuals and when they left, disappointed, the game really lost it for me.
I come here to see if improvements are being made, offer suggestions to what I think would make the game more fun for me and my friends, only to be attacked by others in a personal fashion. Truly wonderful!