We have more players than GW2?

How does that add up? Its a fantastic game, but its terribly boring and has no content? That would be a BAD game right?

Were not even mentioning how terrible the combat is aswell. Auto-attack fest.

It's great to see that the community in swtor is growing! I love the game and hope it lasts and is updated with new content for as long as possible. I'm happy that more people have decided to play this game

The best part of GW2 is the exploration imo. That´s a place where GW>SWTOR
Solo gaming is about the same.
Group gaming is kinda ok, i do miss the tank/healer thing though SWTOR wins there
Stability. well, i havent had a random dc in GW2 yet. lost count on how many i´ve had in swtor.
PvP, no idea since i dont pvp, lets call it a draw.
Endgame. No idea (havent made it to endgame in GW2) but seeing the endgame in swtor GW2 cant be that far behind.
The world. Nothing beats star wars. That´s the main reason people pick swtor over any other mmo. Not the class stories. The GW2 world is not engaging. The worlds are more alive and feel less restricted, but i´m not feeling anything for this world. Tatooine e.x. is boring and lifeless in comparison, but it´s starwars. That just brings something extra.

For me the main draw in GW2 is the stability and fewer bugs. And i like the way they aply patches.
For me the main draw in swtor is that it´s star wars. That´s basicly it. Also i like the basic trinity group thing. The stability and lag in FP´s is not helping though.

SWTOR > GW2 in many departments, to me at least.

Only reason why i'm not currently playing GW2 is, because there are no healers.

I've played a healer in MMORPG's since 2005. I even do in some FPS games like Battlefield (medic). I tried, but i get bored of the gameplay in under 1 hour, because healing is the thing i find fun.

For what it's worth, according to xfire, you will note that GW2 has been stable peaks and valleys (at about 2x the hours logged as SWTOR) for the last 2 months. At this point in SWTOR's lifecycle (4 months after launch) SWTOR was losing about 50 000-100,000 subs/month on average.

The big difference, of course, is that SWTOR was relying on those subs for revenue, whereas the B2P GW2 does not.

So as to the original op question, GW2 seems to have more active players, and seems to be mostly stable. SWTOR seems to have fewer players but also seems mostly stable.

The little number in the corner only tells you how many people from your faction are on the planet. So if it says 100 then it's likely double that. Last night on Shadowlands on the Imp side Balmorra had 5 instances going. That was likely about 300-350 people, Imp side only.

This ^

I found the fact that you had most of your skills early meant you had nothing to look forward to as you leveled up apart from elite skills.

Oh Christ, Xfire again. I got GW2 for Xmas and have been logging into it, and not SWTOR. I don't use Xfire. Guess it doesn't record me. Matter of fact, me, the wife, both sons, my sister, and brother-in-law all got GW2 and none of us use Xfire.

And to the fellow that said GW2 was F2P, it is actually B2P. F2P gives you the game for free + cash shop. B2P, like GW2 and TSW, makes you actually purchase the game. Huge difference in the end.

There's a very good reason why people feel they have to put down other games and talk up the games they play. Games die. They die because they don't get enough subscribers/purchases. There are only a limited number of potential subscribers and every additional MMO out there cuts into that number. If Wow or GW2 or whatever is doing great, then that's going to hurt your game to some extent. Most people don't subscribe to five different MMOs. If they are like me, they unsubscribe to the game they are currently playing before they move on to the next big thing. If the game you love starts losing subscribers then the company stops investing in new content or slows down and then a vicious cycle starts that ends with the game shutting down. It really sucks to be one of the last subscribers to a game. All your time and memories just go poof. So if you don't support my game then you are a dirty word insult and don't possess the same level of skill that I possess at staring at a screen and pushing buttons.