Server population is dropping...

It's not over generalization when about 90% of people in this thread states the same thing.


You're right, a server many have low population that does not mean game is dying. But when you have 10, 100, 200 servers that are all having low population, then it does mean the game is dying.

How many heavy and very heavy servers are you seeing? I don't see a lot. Standard population at peak time with only 100 players on the fleet is not considered a lively server.

You know they lowered the server cap right? Which means "Standard" population now, were considered "Light" at game launch. Remember at launch where 90% of the servers were full and had a queue time? I don't see that now. Do you?

When a game goes from 4 hours queue time to get into a server at launch, to 80% of servers show "Light" off peak and "Standard" during peak time, how can you say the game is not dying, is beyond me.

First excuse my english, i'm spanish ^^

ppl who seak a game with constant high population are wrong ... since there's many MMOs people switch from game to game since they have reached the hi-end content and come back at new update.

Look at Rift. the game was about dying 2 month ago and now you have (on EU server at least) some server with queue ...


(ex : Since I play Guild Wars, and probably GW2, i'm fine with spare a monthly fee when i know i'll not play a lot. I will quit SWTOR because i'm full Rakata and reached all my in-game goal and come back later when the new content is on.)

Oh, and i dont speak of ppl who are on Mass Effect 3 waiting the 1.2, it's about 1/3 of my guid.

ahh it's all so clear to me now... bw wants us to roleplay that a plague wiped out the universe and we are the last survivors.....

After looking here:

http://www.torstatus.net/shards/us/trends (be sure to highlight the whole date range by clicking and dragging on the section under the graph)

I really think server merges can't come fast enough.

Clearly the number of "light" servers is increasing steadily whereas "heavy" and "full" servers have steadily decreased to the point where they have flatlined at the bottom of the graph (even over spring break!) Unless BW have been steadily changing server caps to make them look more empty I think these graphs are pretty accurate of the situation at hand.

Personally I don't care about sub numbers I just would like more people to play with. I do not wish to reroll and level up again. It takes me months to do this as I only play 10 hours a week or so at most.

Since there are so few players to play with I log even less, which just grows the problem.

tl;dr at least merge all the servers that never go higher than "light".

Maybe people have jobs, schools, other obligations, etc....when TOR launched it was during a time when most people had a lot of free time...the server I primarily play on, Canderous Ordo seems to be in the 'Heavy' category a lot of the time by the late afternoon.

This is true. But if this was the only reason for the drop off, then Spring Break throughout March in the US and Canada should have seen a large increase in log ons. There wasn't.

I wish I could transfer to your server, sounds nice.

They marketed it all wrong

1. They said it was an MMORPG with everything you'd expect from an MMORPG but you'd be doing different things. Instead, you do the same things but the VO's add a different flavor and rather than many short stories along the way levelling involves following one longer story, but it's all completed far quicker than MMORPG players would expect.

2. Hardcore players can only progress so far, and the pinnacle can be reached pretty quickly. Much, much faster than you'd expect from an MMO.

In short, it doesn't play like the average MMORPG. It's very fast, it's not involving and it's not demanding to complete the entire game. It's casual only.

They didn't mention that much at all. Too many people came to the game expecting an MMORPG but expanded upon, and left. It hasn't been made clear that it's a very casual game in the advertising. And many people who would be might not yet be aware of the fact that this is a casual MMORPG tailored to people who don't have much time to play. I don't think many people understood that coming into it, so they lost an ideal audience by not making that clearer.

The time you can spend on a character in depth is very limited, and in order for it to have the same time and effort demands as what many are used to or associate with MMO's for good or bad, it's a matter of how many characters you create and play.

People in beta didn't really talk about the game in much detail, and like everything, that was a mixture of opinions and a variety of what people saw and experienced. And not all reached level cap. With the up and coming media blitz planned pretty soon I hope they don't make the same mistake.

Bioware's silence on this issue speaks volumes about who is really calling the shots on the management decisions of SWTOR (hint: its EA). My account is cancelled. I love the game, but I'm not rerolling. That is not why I pay $15 a month to EA/BW. Its clear they think 1.2 will solve the population problems, but I'm telling everyone I know not to bother coming back because its clear EA/BW don't care about the issues that really affect their players/customers.

Anyone who says population isnt dropping is a idiot. Its 1pm on a sunday more than half the servers are light, with 1 heavy? What does this tell you?

WE HAVE TOO MANY DAMN SERVERS!!!. People are quitting, cause of this, this is my main problem i have with the game. It feels like i am playing a single player game and not a mmo. Its sad when during peak time and you cant see more than 50 people on fleet at a given time. Warzone queues can take 30 minutes, a group for a HM FP can take over a hour at times and if someone leaves mid way good luck finding a replacement. The GTN is dead, Guilds dont last long cause people are dropping so fast and harder to recruit. The list goes on.

People dont have time to reroll so they are quitting, its obvious, if people were rerolling you would at least see more heavy servers but we dont do we? At peak times i dont see more than 4-6 heavy servers, half would be standard the other half are light.


Bioware merge your damn servers or end up like Warhammer online.

yup, kellian jarro is prety much a ghost server. i would most certainly welcome a server merger.