The game reputation is kinda ''terminal phase'' at this point.

you definitely have a point here.

I remember a time where people thought I was 'weird' when I told them I play video games.
now when I tell someone I play games they think I mean facebook or wii games. (I do own a wii but that's beside the point :P)
if I tell them I play an 'online game' they ask 'oh like world of warcraft?'.... 'yeah.... only better'. *cough*

when has playing games become cool?

and don't get me wrong, I don't think something automatically sucks just because it's popular... however, most stuf that is popular is popular because it's 'catchy'. this can be a book, a song, a film, a game... but catchy is not automatically quality.

why did so many people complain about TOR deep down? because there is not enough 'fluff' and not enough 'wildlife'... because instead of cute bunnies and butterflies in the fields you see 'space cows' and 'flying dolphins'.

then again, I've had people complain to me that LOTRO had goblins, because apparently that's 'too much like wow'
the hell?

Compare that to launch when we had hell of a lot more servers with queue times.

Remember that the numbers you are seeing now are because they had to close a hell of a lot of servers due to lack of population.

I remember when playing WoW wasn't cool, which funny enough was when I played it

I agree not everything that is popular is Inherently bad, but statistically everything that is unpopular seems to be good. It is definitely a changing generation. 5 years ago when I was in Highschool and before glee was a real thing I remember being in Drama was Uncool, so was cheerleading.

Well suck that Jocks from my Highschool years! I guess I was cool before it was cool! Yea, you all play WoW now? Well I will see you in 5 years when you catch up to TOR and I am off playing something "Lame"!
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Being a trend setter is often times not appreciated until the trend followers catch up

Um, you do realize they also increase population thresholds right? What was once heavy is considered light nowadays man. They didn't "Close" a lot of servers, they just merged them to allow a more streamlined and abundant community.

PvE and RP servers hit high and full populations regularly. PvP servers get to medium-high but that is to be expected because casual players don't like being ganked or ganking.

Don't bother, no matter what you say to some of these people you will never get them to admit that this is infact the second most powerful Subscription based MMO in the west, you will never get them to admit that the population has stabilised using information from the same sites they sourced to prove it was dying months ago, nor will they accept the fact that a lot of people are coming back for F2P and that this upcoming update could be the fuel need to restart the machine and get moving at a decent pace, especially with things like Open-World PVP coming in January, etc...

We all noticed large amount of players coming back now (subbing to get their cartel coins) and 3/4 of European servers are Heavy - Very Heavy in the evenings. This game is far from dead. Doom to the haters!

I used to read these magazines last century. Haven't bothered checking them in more than a decade. I prefer to check out games myself instead of having some "journalist" trying to tell me what I have to like.

did u notice that except Europe servers all other servers r light at Sunday nite?
even the ASPC servers also die.