Servers on the decline again....

I just dont understand why we are surprised. The population was declining before the server merge, and the main reason for that wasnt the low server population.

As nothing changed in the game other then having more guy running around you, the same trend just start to reapply, people are bored of the game and not logging on as frequently or at all.

Drop some new content in and watch em all come flooding back.

What exactly are these "fundamental flaws" everyone keeps talking about? I see lots of regurgitation but no actual facts about what people are dissatisfied with.

Here are the fundamental problems I noticed with TOR:

1. Very little PVP interaction within the worlds at higher levels
2. Poor quality LFG tool that limits peoples ability to form friendships (community) running instances and content.
3. Lack of “personalization”. No cross mission features, very linier story content decreasing re-playability. For both factions
4. Game content is way too easy, and high end gear is a grind fest to get and easy to get. MMO players strive to get that “Bad !!@ gear”, but when it is handed to you then what is there to play for.
5. Leveling is way too fast causing a burnout affect. If I have 2 lvl 50s in 6 months of playing casually and completed most of the content, then something is wrong there. People want something to strive for and the level cap is a big one. This feature needs to go hand in hand with point # 3 and 4.
6. The lack of sandbox elements in the game has a major impact on re-playability, lack of arenas and world pvp, cross story encounters or event random story / mission encounters cripples this game.

TOR is a great idea, and the engine as a whole is a good one, combat mechanics are great, and the all voice over missions and encounters are wonderful, but the 6 points above MUST be in place to hold subs or people get bored and quit. People are angry because the hopes for the game was so high, and when it is lacking the elements that make an MMO good you just fail.

If they had listened to a small handful of us during beta testing, and changed/added some things (or NOT changed some things) during that time, they wouldn't be in this mess.

Those of us who told them back then what wasn't going work were proven correct, and the majority in beta testing who said everything was perfect, and to hurry and release the game were proven wrong. Their lack of creativity, and enthusiasm for making a living, breathing world was sorely evident way back then. They wanted to stick with the strory thing, and that's great for the class stories. The bad thing is, that's only good the first time for most people.

The things that they tied to story (we were told this by them), and really should not have been is, no appearance tab, no clothing dyes, no day/night on planets, restrictive/linear world maps, restrictive crafting, no housing, space on wobbly rails, and linear world quests.

I bet most of those biofans from beta aren't even here anymore.

Here are the fundamental problems I noticed with TOR:

1. Very little PVP interaction within the worlds at higher levels.

2. Poor quality LFG tool that limits peoples ability to form friendships (community) running instances and content.

3. Lack of “personalization”. No cross mission features, very linier story content decreasing re-playability. For both factions.

4. Game content is way too easy, and high end gear is a grind fest to get and easy to get. MMO players strive to get that “Bad !!@ gear”, but when it is handed to you then what is there to play for.

5. Leveling is way too fast causing a burnout affect. If I have 2 lvl 50s in 6 months of playing casually and completed most of the content, then something is wrong there. People want something to strive for and the level cap is a big one. This feature needs to go hand in hand with point # 3 and 4.

6. The lack of sandbox elements in the game has a major impact on re-playability, lack of arenas and world pvp, cross story encounters or event random story / mission encounters cripples this game.