Servers on the decline again....

This is what todays players want. We are in the generation of, " it's not a job but a game" crowd of players
This is not SWG, go play a shooter if you want arena. world pvp will never happen until the developers start handing gear out like candy, not exactly sure what you mean by cross story.

They've made some bad decisions.

My group of friends who play all had to reroll on different servers due to declining population.

Now we come back at server merge and our 2 old servers merge to the same new one. There aren't enough character slots to bring all our new guys over, and no room to make a new character.

This drove most of them away until they add more character slots.

I went ahead and leveled a guy to 50 on a new server. Doing pvp now and I gotta say it feels like a ridiculous grind for war hero gear. I'm completely worthless in recruit armor as a juggeranut and am not having any fun griding it out for battlemaster.

Well Bioware you merged the servers. But you didn't address any of the underlying issues it seems. Servers are back on the decline.

Looking at the data from TORstatus we can see in the US:

Server name Population (07/15-07/29) Change

The Harbinger » ø 2.34 -0.11
Begeren Colony » ø 2.30 +0.15
The Bastion » ø 2.28 -0.15
Drooga's Pleasure Barge » ø 2.27 -0.08
The Ebon Hawk » ø 2.18 +0.06
Corellian Run » ø 2.11 +0.03
Jedi Covenant » ø 2.10 -0.02
The Shadowlands » ø 2.04 -0.09
Canderous Ordo » ø 2.03 -0.06
Prophecy of the Five » ø 1.97 -0.28
The Fatman » ø 1.86 -0.08
Jung Ma » ø 1.85 -0.01

Where the ø values are explained on their site (www.torstatus.com)

But basically the destination servers have seen a decline of -0.64 over the last 2 weeks... which is pretty drastic

EU servers are similar.

I guess Bioware secretly raised the population caps for the 3rd or 4th time? or the game is still declining?

Isn't TORstatus reporting an overall change of +1.50 right now? Seen here towards the bottom of the page.

So... no, I don't think that means the servers are declining at all.

Yeah, I can't argue the numbers but my own anecdotal experiences seems to show a pronounced decline. I am on for extended periods of time in the late afternoon and evening hours and throughout the weekend. Queue times for my character(except for the tank) have double or tripled on average and instance populations have gone down by a 1/3. It seems the changes were most pronounced this last week.

I am not surprised as many of my guildies are preparing to take a break at the end of this month too. Don't forget there has been no new content since version 1.2 (April 12).

3.5 Months of no new content == lots of unsubs

Yup, 1.3 was quality of life, it will strengthen the glue that holds down subscriptions, but with no new content, swtor will run out of gas and people will ditch it.

And soon a lambo(Gw2) will drive up next to swtor and offer them a ride, not many people will stay, and shortly after that, the City bus will also stop(WoW:MoP), srsly dont see many people staying.

New MMOs come along and those easily bored will jump to them, doesn't mean anything. People cry doom and gloom and predict the "death" of a MMO, and yet those who like it, and aren't "yelling" about it, just continue to enjoy it. Watched "doom and gloom" predict the end of City of Heroes, Champions, DDO, LoTR....they all continue on and are still enjoyed by those that love them, years later.