SWTOR still bleeding players?

People don't harassed others over nothing. You probably responded to some thing people said in general chat one too many times. Next time don't say any thing.

Too bad BW doesn't have paid transfers/name changes, then you could just use those services to restart your characters reputation on the server or new server.

Definitely losing players. A good number of them are coming from the EA lockout mechanism when you buy cartel coins with CC or Paypal. Many players are now locked out from paying a sub, or buying expansions etc. Check the customer service forums the thread has 90K views. F2P numbers may remain the same - but the paying players are being prevented from playing or paying.

Ans, What server are you on? I don't think you need to allow yourself to be subjected to harassment. I do find it rather suspect that you have to ignore so many people, that your list is currently full. I think there is something more going on than you are telling us. And, that's fine. Your business is your own. But, I have a few suggestions that could possibly help:

You say you need the gen chat. I disagree with you. If you are making something, then advertising that something and receiving a whisper for that something you definitely do not need general chat. You can go to the GTN, and put the product on there for whatever you can hock it for and never have to deal with someone whispering things to you from a general chat perspective. At some point, I would easily trade a slightly lesser load of in game credits for peace of mind. After all, this isn't giving you real money from a real business. So save yourself the hassel, and take a slightly less return on your crafted materials. You'll be better off mentally for it.

Turn off general chat, or modify it so you can only talk to your guild mates and selected friends. There is no reason for you to have to use general chat. None. You don't really need it for "advertising". I actually think advertising on gen chat is horribly rude in and of itself. Which is a major reason I don't typically have my chat window open. The LFG tool will place you into pugs just fine as well., and I will admit if you are trying to run each and every 2-4 man planetary heroic you won't be able to use the tool.

Lastly, this game is a video game. Re-roll an alt on another server. There is nothing stopping you from re-creating your experience elsewhere away from the people who want to mess with you. Will it take some time? Sure. You may enjoy it too. The biggest thing is that you can absolutely change your situation. You don't need BW to do it for you. Restart your experience elsewhere, and see if you can change whatever behavior that riles up so many people that you have to ignore an entire full list of people. And, if the first re-roll doesn't work. Do it again. You don't need to sit there with one character and take abuse. You have the power YOURSELF to change things. I'd suggest doing it., Good luck with whatever path you choose.

This is wrong. I would LOVE to play more . But, I have FAR less time due to the holidays, being an adult with a family means having to travel to two different places (at least). Plus, work doesn't just give us off an entire week for the holiday. This shouldn't trouble you, or concern you what so ever. Holidays are a tough time for people. Yes they are fun, but it absolutely does not mean MORE time.

Hi! I'm a completely new player who downloaded the game on Saturday, tried it out F2P on Sunday, and (having established that it actually works on my low spec machine) started subscribing yesterday. I'm liking what I'm seeing and I've heard quite a few people in the general chat stating that, like myself, they'd only started playing the game within the last week and had since subscribed.

I'd have been here a lot sooner (as I've been interested in this game for a while but was never sure it would work on my computer) so thank God for a random comment by a guild member in my previous MMO (I'd been playing there for three years) who mentioned that SWTOR went F2P some months ago. I must have missed the publicity, i guess. Ah well, I'm here now and that's all that matters!

http://www.torstatus.net/jedi-covena...nt/history/30d


Where's the "bleeding" part? That looks like it keeps going up, back to normal, and up again. Never bottoming out or constantly going down.

Stop "trolling" or whatever it is you call this idiocy. The game is fine.

Annnndddddd it's not EAs fault. The cards themselves are locked by a safety mechanism built in so if a credit card gets stolen someone can't rack up a ton of purchases. People are purchasing too much or too many things in a 24 hour window, and thus they're locking themselves out. Call EA to get this straightened out WILL fix it. EA will fix the PEOPLES MISTAKES. Stop blaming EA for everything.

Yeah, pretty funny that people can't figure out why there are less players online during Christmas Eve, lol.

Bingo. I don't have more free time to play during this holiday because I have plans with my family.

I know many of our guildies haven't been around this week and its because they have RL things going on with their families. So... I expect player pops to be down at least a few days in general.