Server population is dropping...

It might bring back some people, but I'm not sure if it would be significant numbers. There's always a certain percentage of customers who you only have one chance to keep. If they leave after that one chance, they're never coming back no matter what you do.

I myself tend to be the type that once I quit, I never come back and any change made after that is too little too late. With that said, I'm still happy with the game for the most part. I thik the Bioware devs, for the most part, deserve kudos for a game well done. There are some aspects that deserve criticism though.

Server transfers may help some, but it's not a "cure all". I for one will not pay for a server transfer and I'm not keen on rerolling toons that I've already invested a significant time in.

Server merges could certainly help some as well, but again, it's a temporary bandaid solution. At least with server merges you have a chance at a higher pop and once the same server LFG tool comes out, there will be some added convenience to forming groups. I still believe the queues will be long though on many if not most servers, that its affect on retention will be minimal at best (I'm sure it will be fantastic on high pop servers though).

Speaking solely for myself (though I've talked to many in my now dead guild of 175 people who agree), if there is no cross server LFG/LFR tool by the time I finish all 8 class stories (end of the year at present rate) and if my 50's still have trouble getting groups in a reasonable amount of time, I will be gone and any change after that will be too little, too late for me.

As for the discussion by others on 1.2, just to throw out some 'anecdotal evidence', my Republic Server consistently had about 50 people on fleet during peak times before 1.2 came out. For a few days after, it spiked up to the 60-70 range. The last few days, it's back down to around 40. My Imperial Server on the other hand has remained steady between 150 and 180 depending upon the time of night. And some would say that Imp server is dead. In that case, what is my Repub server? LOL. Make of the above what you will...

Like I said, whether it was true or not. Could be BS, who knows.

Could not agree more.

They dropped the ball AND called the whistle. They really, REALLY need to pick up the slack and impress a lot of people, or they are going to lose LOTS of subs come the next couple months.

Hell, I'm already psyched to give TERA open beta a try this weekend. It's open beta today.

I pre ordered so started yesterday. Well worth your time as we wait for Bioware to get there heads out of their collective you know what. Oh, and Tera has a LFG tool. What an amazing idea? /sarcasm off

How's the game so far? I watched it @ PAX East and got an Open Beta key, but have yet to try it out myself.

Looks very, very promising though.

The increase of player numbers I sincerely doubt it is because a huge number of new subscriptions that just came out of the blue. I think the contributing factors are well, the 1.2 patch itself, I say this mainly because a large number of people who have not logged on in well over a month have logged on in both my guild and friends list.

And honestly, you will be kidding yourself if you think that it was a thank you from B.W. for the "continued support" thats just garbage when one threat concerning 1.2 issues went from page 1 to over, wow, I think I stopped bothering with it at over 400 pages. And this thread went from 1 to over 400 in less than 5 hours.

So, I don't think a lot of players will stick on after they finish their storylines, because frankly that's when you start to see the game for what it is. Incomplete.