Server population is dropping...

FYI, this is not my first MMO. And please enlighten me to what it really is? If you think this game is so horrible, why are you still playing or are you just a forum troll?

Some guys avoid the poop... others just enjoy rolling around in it I guess.

Not to mention that technology companies all over have been taking hits all week. Doesn't mean that Apple is dying. Doesn't mean that Google is dying, Doesn't mean Microsoft is dying.

Stock market != general health of a company.

Not to mention that TOR, no matter how large of a game it is (estimates go anywhere from 70 to 300 million) is still one game from one side company of Electronic Arts.

You're missing the point. We like SWTOR and want it to grow. We simply see the light at the end of tunnel... and its the front of an oncoming train.

You don´t even know how much I tried to love SWTOR - I still want the game to suceed, why should anyone have a reason not to, except for beeing a shill for Blizzard or any other competing company, which I am not.
Fact is, I enjoy the Rakghoul event and I am not bored at the moment, but I doubt they put out stuff like this weekly.

I´ll take a break until the game gets more polished, more interesting quests and space combat, then I´ll be a happy subscriber again. Now with the free months I got another 30 days on top of my 30 days gamecard left, not a bad thing at all. After this I´ll check out TSW, I might be disappointed but I like the fact TSW is NOT WoW. I think I´ll be quite entertained by this title as I like the setting and the whole idea of it.

Spoken like a true player with no guild/friends on the game/called bad/etc...

The games a blast, make some friends and enjoy...

Really? Every single one of them? That's a pretty broad sweeping assumption you are making there. It's like saying all the people making posts like the one I quoted are paid fanbois of the company... Honestly it's great that you love the game and it would take a medical procedure to surgically remove your lips from the behind of the game designers, but not everyone who is unhappy with the changes and left did so because they thought wowisuberleetandiwishthisgamewasmorelikeittoo! Some people are unhappy with the changes because the changes ARE bad changes. Sometimes some things are just wrong, not because it isn't more like something else, but because you know, wrong is wrong, bad is bad!

Really, there are fundamental issues with the game that need to be addressed. There are far too many places in the world to get stuck for starters. Not enough quickslots for all your abilities (especially with legacy abilities now), Seriously DF is a must as on some servers the population just isn't there. In prime time the server I am on, pub side you are lucky to break 50 people at GS nightly, it's brutal. Since most of my guild, along with 2 other guilds I used to group with often have quit, HM groups have been extremely difficult to come by. But I guess according to you good riddance....

93 People online on Prime Time Republic side (Tassaa Bareesh EU) BW this is a disgrace.

Uh huh.

Yeah. In vanilla. The train. Is coming.

All I'm saying is "lighten up" about it. If the train hits, well, what are you gonna do about it? I remember having high expectations from Age of Conan only to discover that after you leave Tortage, there was really nothing to do. The game was unfinished, and that wouldn't have been the end of the world... if they had eventually finished it.

Funcom never did finish AoC. They let it languish in neglect for ages before throwing Godslayer in there (useless expansion that it was). They did it wrong. We haven't even seen what BW plans for future patches and the first expansion, so chill, and if you're bored, play something else for a while.

It simply isn't worth getting this worked up about.

With server populations there is "low" and then there is itty bitty teeny tiny. I logged on to Fleet today on the Imp side and I was the only person on. Uno. One. On my server it's not uncommon at all for there to be fewer than 3 people on a planet. I'd like to see free server transfers to a list of specific servers to build up decent populations and then close down a few servers (or more than a few). I don't care for servers that are stuffed full but a standard population would be nice.

The population problems are pretty clearly a case of assuming an initial tidalwave of players was the norm. I will say that when I heard some of the guys from BioWare speak at Screenburn it was pretty clear that they had not been prepared for how fast people were going to go through content and how popular pvp was going to be. I got the impression they had a pretty good plan for rolling out story and content on a slower timeline, but it all went to hell when people started rolling through the content at breakneck speed. They've been playing catch up ever since. So we're seeing that a large number of people who have leveled quickly and have been chewing on the same end-game content for quite some time are bored so they're not going to be playing as often (and many will unsubscribe). The amount of daily gametime per person is dropping.

I think it's likely that the gaming population in swtor will shrink to a certain level and then stabalize. It was too much growth too fast. As long as they have enough of a player base to sustain profitability they'll continue with the game (and I think they will) but the number of hours of gameplay that they initially saw won't be coming back for quite some time if ever.