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

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 its not the hero framework.

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

Seriously. Its their hardware. HAS to be.

Is it true that the Hero Engine's license is free but you have to give them 30% of the earnings from any game developed with it?

Just seems like a terrible business decision if so, on top of the licensing fees for Lucas.

Jek Jek Pop pstats as of 7:28 PM 4/18/2012

1120 Players active

Republic ~562 active players.
LVL 50;
37 Commandos
27 Vanguards
33 Sents
29 Guards
37 Sage
30 Shadow
19 Gunslinger
19 Scoundrel

Empire ~555 active players
LVL 50;
34 Juggs
19 Mara's
63 Sorcs
22 Assassins
46 Mercs
16 Powertechs
16 Snipers
20 Operatives


Approx 40% on both sides are between lvl 20-45

Starter planets only had around 5-10% of the total population. Fleet only had around 15% of the total population.

Proving fleet is a bad way to measure a server pop.

As much as I appreciate you bring up the stats but there is a major flaw with counting those types of numbers. First off for a new game that is a pretty pathetic population value. Granted its mid week but really a total of 1k or about for a server population is dead. For the supposed 1.7 million active subs you should see three times the numbers of active 50's per server. This is the point I am making. To do end game you need numbers. The launch of the game you had guilds filled, hell my guild had 143 people in it, thats including alts. We are down to 42 or so half of that are active players. Once again doing a population search such as this only proves that people are playing in some sort of capacity. There is little to no MMO feeling, no massive open pvp battles due to population imbalance and the abortion call Illum, there are no pug groups putting together flash points, warzone pops have gotten better but still take in some cases 15 minutes to pop. Overall a server that has a population of 1-2k is a total failure in my opinion. It show a progressivly deteriating game. I am sorry but I am not wrong with this assessment, I saw the same thing happen in Warhammer. Once you see the first server merge is when you know this game is in serious trouble. That wont happen until after May due to second quarter investment reports come out.

No its not 30%, its negotiated per individual contract. I think thats just a rumor someone started.

No I found where that came from it's on the wikipedia entry for HeroEngine. There's a cloud version of it that is free but the license is 30% of the earnings of the game made with it.

I suppose this allows for a small developer to make a game with it for free if they want.

THats active on a Tuesday night though. Its around 1.5k on weekends for most servers. And the factions arent that imbalanced btw. Not when you look at the actual numbers.

Im not defending the games pathetically smaller server sizes by any means, but we definately have issues with population. Even with what the BW marketing machine tries to spin in its interviews.

THe game is fundementally designed to be played solo and in small group though. SO maybe its just not the kind of MMO that requires big groups of ppl online.