Please give us something...

I wouldn't say they've done NOTHING... they've closed plenty of threads!

They don't need PLAYERS. They need REVENUE. There's a subtle but important difference that leads us directly to the answer: Third-party advertising in the launcher at first and eventually in the game itself.

Assumption ... Just because one hasn't seen them all doesn't mean they don't exist.
They do for one's character.
I feel my characters are to an extent that I find acceptable in an MMO. I'm not so caught up in my own little world that I would my characters' class stories to be completely unique to everyone else's. The HAL9000 required to run something of that magnitude doesn't exist yet.
Light side/dark side vendors for starters.
Yep. I guess throwing grenades through Bioware's storefront window and mauling their customers qualifies. Though that tends to attract police.
Depends on the WoW zones I guess.

If the game was based on that, then it would have been the catastrophe you have alluded to. But it's not so it wasn't.

They don't exist. Anywhere. There's enough datamined information to let us know this.

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No, they don't. Nothing about the story is changed depending on your "choices."

The fact that your story is exactly the same as my story is the very definition of "not personal."

And the Grey vendors are located...?

Or (and this is a whacky thought, I know), they could listen to and act on the customers' feedback, like they claimed they supposedly do.

If the Bioware devs have to resort to semantics and misdirection, then that is all that needs to be said for how truthful and honest they are. And if that is what the defenders of Bioware have to resort to, then that is all that needs to be said for how desperate they are.

The same datamining that produces server population numbers? Since Bioware does not allow API access to their data to be mined (other than the combat logs), those are just best guesses.
NPCs live, NPCs die, and some NPCs who are spared come back with class story relevance like the Sith Warrior's Lord Rathari. (Sorry ... no spoilers here.)
If I'm looking for an experience that personal, video games wouldn't make the list of places I'd look for it.
Dark Side / Light Side vendors in fleet. They sell orange custom and rare blue equipment items and relics whose levels unlock based on character and Dark Side / Light Side levels.

• Bioware listens: Patch 1.1's ability delay fix.
• Bioware listens: Patch 1.2's customizable UI (they hit a home run with this one.)
• Bioware listens: Orange custom gear whose use was extended through level 50 HMs.
• Bioware listens: They sucked it up, made the PR-sensitive choice to consolidate servers and now server populations are thriving because of it
• Bioware listens: Patch 1.3's Groupfinder
• Bioware listens: Patch 1.3's RWZs
• Bioware fixes stuff.

If I felt that way when I first woke up every morning I might be hurting for some payback too.

In decline? I was just on tatooine in instance 2. That has never happened to me before on that planet. Fleet had 250+ people and I never found WZ matches and FP groups this quick before. So unless Tuesday suddenly became primetime, methinks there is no decline atm.

No. The same datamining that produces the actual items in the game. You know. Like lightsabre crystals? Or gear?

And that changes the story itself...how?

Then I guess they shouldn't have made the claim that the story is personal, eh?

And again. The GREY vendors are located...?

Now. What about :

• Togruta/Nautolan/Kel Dor/insert some other species choice here
• Purple/white crystals
• Full customisation for gear
• GREY JEDI/SITH VENDORS (just in case you still think I'm talking about Light Side/Dark Side vendors, I put it in capitals for you)
• Gear for Consulars/Inquisitors that aren't skirts
• Mouse over targetting
• Day/night and weather cycles
• Gear that wasn't inspired by WoW (ie. the huge shoulders and ridiculous attachments to the gear)
• Vibrostaves that can be used by Consulars and Inquisitors
• SGRAs
• Chat bubbles
• Ability to sit in chairs
• Mini-games like pazaak

Oh look. A snide, passive-aggressive response. Because that, in no way, is something that is common by the people in this forum. How original of you.

What the game is "based on", whatever that may mean, is irrelevent.

They actively sold the game on RvR, but didn't deliver any.

If a manufactuer says a car has a speedometer before selling it......... it probably should have a speedometer when you buy it.

The sky is falling!