Why isn't this game growing or at least breaking even?

because you dont understand what this means

because you dont understand what this means

Just want to see this game grow, I enjoy it and would like it to stick around awhile and see if it can fill its potential.

Yes, I am just speculating, based on what I see, and for the record, I am only talking baout my server, which is not a ghost town, in fact we lean towards the healthy side considering some of the horror stories out there of ghost town servers.

I don't care what gear drops from the new FP, I just like it cause I thought it was pretty darn good content for a 4 man. I knew I wouldn't want any gear in there, but it is nice for the weekly quest for it.

You need to step up to the new campaign gear if you want to move it to orange gear and keep your set bonuses. So I guess you will have to start killing hard modes or wait till they nerf them, which I am guessing they will eventually.

When you start stacking campaign gear and blackhole gear, your choices on stats really open up.

With the improvements they have done on difficulty, I don't think 3 hour nightmare clears of the new content is coming anytime soon, but we will have to wait and see what the nightmare modes are even like.

BioWare just responded yesterday with the fact that subs ARE growing. So, why does it seem like TOR is losing subs? I posted this in another thread, but I'll post it here:

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Clear as mud?

BioWare just responded yesterday with the fact that subs ARE growing. So, why does it seem like TOR is losing subs? I posted this in another thread, but I'll post it here:

Remember, seemingly "dead" servers are not due to loss of subs. On the contrary, subs are increasing. What's causing that is less people playing concurrently.

For example, you have 12 subs. At launch, people are excited, take days off, use vacation, decrease other entertaining activities, etc. to play as much as possible, more than they usually do in an MMO. Over a 24 hour period, you have 2 people logging in every 4 hours, and playing 12 hours at a time. At any given time during the day, you'll see 6 people playing.

Now, the launch excitement wears off, people start returning to their normal play durations, log in times, etc. After that typical MMO "dropoff", you now have 24 subs, but you have 2 people logging in every 4 hours, and playing for 4 hours. Thus, at any given time of the day, you'll see 4 people playing instead of 6. Subs have actually doubled. But because the concurrent playtime has dropped off, there is a perceived decrease in subs.

And, as is par for the course, BioWare has started a long-term, organized server transfer system. The reason why this works better than server merges for this issue is because, again, there is no loss of subs. Thus, merging servers will only cause insane Full queue times during events and expansions. Server transfers will not, since it tends to have a more "leveling" effect.

Clear as mud?

I get what you're saying about the new flash point. I like the story. It was well done. But story is only good once or twice for me. After that, there has to be some motivation for me to go. As an easy example off the cuff. If legacy had 2 aspects to it. A total level, and a spendable portion that accrued as it does now. Instead of spending millions upon millions of credits for legacy content, if I could say, spend legacy "currency" to unlock new features, I'd have a motivation to run anything and everything out there. Anything I could think of doing would contribute to unlocking new fun stuff. Then even if I wasn't getting new loot, I'd have a reason to go do 99% of the content in the game. Instead, I look at it and say, "hey that's cool but why bother?"

You missed my point about gear. I understand exactly how it works. I just think the implementation was idiotic or incomplete. There are a ton of other awesome looking gear in the game, most of it at lower levels. I'd love to farm up those schematics and customize each and every one of my companions out on my main. I also feel the limitation on the Rakata/Columi/Tionese set bonuses is silly. It should be attached to the armor slot just as the new content is. Instead, I can customize my looks, but I have to wait until I get the campaign set. Then, if I happen to like the campaign set, I have to wait until everyone has their gear before I can start gambling to learn the schematics for it. The amount of content this would provide me, and many others, would keep us entertained for a long time. Instead I get stuck with the looks I have until much much later.

The choice on stats, right now, is relatively open. It just costs a large amount of credits to change up. Everyone has an optimal setup for stats. No matter how you put it, stacking alacrity for me is just stupid. Crit is only valuable up until heavy diminishing returns kick in. Same thing with surge. That leaves stacking aim and power, which is what I already try to do. That's not "options". That's just optimal versus default.

I'm with you in that I hope nightmare mode doesn't take a trivial amount of time for people to clear.

Oh I don't care about story, I just liked the fights in there. I will run it once a week for comms, thats it. I spacebar everything. I don't get the whole story thing, I don't play an MMO for story, I play it to raid and pvp and socialize with my guild. If I want a story I will watch a movie or read a book, but to each their own.

As for gear, I kind of see your perspective now, you care about looks and customization, which is cool. I don't. I just wear whatever has the best stats, and whatever oranges have augment slots, looks really mean nothing to me. I don't care about my companions either, I vendor stuff before I give it to them. I can see how you felt shafted now with the gear options and changes, maybe they will fix that for you hopefully.

I like to min/max, yes, so I am just happy I don't have to wear bad stats now or downgrade my enhancements to get rid of accuracy or alacrity that I don't want.