The end of the arguement. Is SWTOR in decline? Can it be saved?

People use it because that's the realistic available pool of people to recruit for flashpoints and team queued PVP.

If we had galaxy wide LFG utilities "dead" servers where an overwhelming majority of the players are not on the fleet would feel more lively. But nobody wants to run around to every planet spamming local chat looking for group members.

Community driven attempts to have galaxy wide lfg chat basically failed on Space Slug, didn't help that there were 2 competing attempts at the same time.

So as far as I see it, the ball is in Bioware's hands to fix that dilemma, because the community tried and it didn't take hold.

Not to mention, player created channels are VERY spammy. You see everyone joining and leaving the channel and its obnoxious, even if there's only a handfull of people using it.

I stumbled upon this link recently and I decided to share it with the SWTOR community. Its a transcript from a keynote speech by Jeff Strain at Games Developer Conference in 2007, and I feel it still holds absolutely true to this date. It is a long read but I am sure a lot of you will find it very interesting. (http://www.guildwars.com/events/trad...7/gcspeech.php).

Note: I opened a thread on this but it was closed by the mods. If you are interested about the MMO industry in general this is a great read.

Tera is, in fact, quite awful

THats actually interesting, thanks.

BF3 severely hurt EA. Honestly I am glad it did with the awful integration of Battlelog which absolutely sucked.

This game is only in just starting out, WoW and every other half decent MMO went through this...

And for the guy who tried to call me out like he was hot stuff. We run HP BL485 Blades 8 to a rack, with 166 racks spread across 4 square miles in various buildings. I'm not specifically the hardware guy, but I'm not an idiot. I fail to see why their server population caps are so low unless they are using some really cheap servers.

The only thing TERA has going for it is the targeting system for combat. Aside from that.. nothing unless you're some weird pedo.

Terrible Engine that wasn't ready when Bioware acquired it.

No its not the hero framework.

HeroEngine Able to Support 100,000 Concurrent Users on Single Shard

Seriously. Its their hardware. HAS to be.

No different than going into Stormwind or Orgrimmar to get a feel for a server's population in WoW. I was on Thorium Brotherhood and Kirin Tor, both were awesome raiding servers once. I dropped in February because there were more Love Is In The Air quest NPCs in the town squares than there were players. And the AHs on both servers were bare. Ya, Fleet is this game's social center which makes it a good (not perfect) indicator of a server's activity. There is no way to know what a server's true population is.