What will stop new people from rolling on the old servers?

The proof is the server merges (oops transfers) that they just did. If new people were comming into the game then they wouldnt have too merge them all into 1 or 2 servers.

From how you guys make it sound just as many people are buying the game as there are quitting but somehow the population is dropping so fast they have to do transfers. Doesnt make sense does it.

I do give bioware or SWTOR credit when they deserve it so its not all negetive just most and the reason why is most of the things they do or dont do is wrong.

Actually.

I'd say that they opened up WAY TOO many servers that would never sustain. I said it waaaay back when the game launched that perhaps this was too many servers.

They had a great launch, had great sub numbers only second to the behemoth that is WOW. Initial numbers drop though, always. So they already had too many servers when they were at their peak. There was still light servers the first month, that right there should have been proof that there were just a bit too many. So when the usual mass exodus happened (that happens with every new MMO) it immediately made the ghost towns. Their first mistake was too many servers...any ways Megaservers is what a MODERN MMO should have. The days of MMOs being played over numerous 'Scroll down' servers is pretty much over. The more players to you can get together the better.

How you make it sound that NO ONE is buying the game at all. I doubt that, of course we don't have any numbers recently but according to VGCharts it is still selling as of February. Compare it to that other big MMO, for the year of 2012 it is doing just fine.

The free trial will move some more boxes too so there will be some new people playing the game. Just look at the new player section...I know you want to claim DOOOOM but this game has done pretty well for itself thus far.

Why would they lease servers instead of having their own.?

Mass Exodus? Only 300k people quit in the first month I thought and I think they said it was a 85% retention rate. So 15% of the players made it ghost town?

I didnt mean they were not going to sell any but I would be suprised if they sell more than 5k a month now.

Your using February as a point as in sales are still continuing? That was4-5 months ago

How many of the new player forums trials or friends accounts? I havent looked so I dont know but I imagine its not really that many. Also I though the only people who used the forums were haters and trolls but now we have all the new players on the forums also?

This game has not done well so far. It has been a disaster. Yes they have done some things correctly but most have been major screwups.

Losing over a million subs cant be doing that great.
Having to do a major server merge (when most of the servers were heavy or better at some other time) isnt doing that great.
Cutting your staff by roughly 33% when you didnt plan on cutting any of them isnt doing that great.

The only thing this game has done is make money. The only reason they made money is from all the hype the game got before launch.

I don't get all this talk about leasing servers. Hasn't anyone heard of virtual servers? The code for a server doesn't take much space, so you have to balance them according to their load. If many servers are dead they all fit in a single physical server.

Even if Bioware hadn't heard of virtual servers, they could run the code in virtual machines inside the physical servers. Heck, you can even move a running virtual machine from one physical server to another without having to stop it and no one would be the wiser.

Its been said by the Devs that server transfers are optional.

What happens to the new guy who has never played this game and rolls on a ghost town of a server?

Hopefully either the free transfer option would still be available or, by that time, even a paid transfer of a server of your choosing, I would guess. I understand your point though ... the continued existence of the ghost-town servers is a bit of a blight on the landscape.