SWTOR: Lacking in appeal for the casual gamer?

The reason SWTOR is lacking for casual gamers is because they just don't have time to continually reroll characters when their server dies.

The issue is that most of the developers are admitted hardcore progression raiders...they will keep trying to areal to that base, despite the fact that base hates their guts.

Bioware does this all the time at social.bioware.com. Stanley Woo actively insults customers they all mislabel as 'fans' and of course Bioware's GM once told a customer to "**** off"

I agree. 100%.

I recently unsubbed from TOR and went back to WoW.

My God. It was like a tall, cool glass of water to a man dying of thirst.

As soon as I logged in I ticked the little box that said "DPS", then pressed the little button that said "Find Group".

Within five minutes I was in a dungeon. Five minutes.

But as an added bonus there were some flagged Alliance outside Orgrimmar, so for that five minutes I was able to enjoy some pvp (as opposed to TOR where I encountered my first Republic player out side a WZ at level 25. On Tatooine. The FIFTH planet I visited.)

I did enjoy some aspects of TOR, but the lack of a cross-server LFG tool, sub-par pvp and lackluster racial choices (c'mon Bioware - let us play something more iconic than different skinned humans already!) mean unfortunately I am done here, which saddens me because I am a HUGE Star Wars fan and have been for over thirty years.

Casual players are the ones supporting this game right now.

What does this mean exactly? That the numbers they reported as subscribers in the first report was...wrong? fudged? Different definition of paying?

How does one say 1.7M subscribers earlier, 1.3M subscribers later, and the percent of paying subscribers has gone up? That only means to me that the hyped up 1.7 million was incorrect =P

We are the majority but that all depends on your definition of casual

For now, but they started leaving months ago and they're still leaving. Who here honestly believes there are 1.3 million active players today? It's funny how people call this game a Themepark MMO or a MMO for Casuals. This game has NO FEATURES! Casuals need features. Hardcores need continous content. BW has been favoring the Hardcores more then casuals since release. Hardcores got more content. Exactly what features have Casuals been given? ZERO.

They have been given SWTOR

You're right on dude. Going from a featureless MMO to a MMO loaded with features is exactly how you described it. I mean, you can't even get a whisper option from right clicking a person on the Guild roster. You can't shift click an item onto the search bar on the GTN. TOR isn't just missing the big features, it's missing all the small ones too. It's ridiculous.