Feedback from a subscriber and why I'm losing faith in the game.

I used to see the exact same issues as you until I upped my RAM to 16GB and moved to an SSD. With 16GB, I have 10-12 in use while playing SWOTOR. That means that if you have 8GB or less, the system will have to use HDD virtual memory.

I rarely post my own feedback about any game. For me, I do not see much of a need. Game developers are going to do whatever they want to do no matter what a majority of people say to them.

SWTOR uses two processes which running 32-bit mode. That caps them at 3GB per process, meaning that the game cannot use more than 6GB of memory. I don't know what else you're running on your system, but I run Firefox, Chrome, IDEA, Thunderbird, a few SSH terminals and some monitoring apps while playing and still don't reach usage levels that high.

Normal OS usage (Vista SP2, Win7) shouldn't be more than 2GB or so. SWTOR doesn't normally use more than 5GB. 8GB of physical RAM is enough to run the game from purely physical RAM. If you have other applications running, you might get some disk performance degradation due to reduced disk caching, but that shouldn't have a huge effect. For most people, there is no need to have 16GB of RAM. Sure, its nice if you've got it, but your memory usage levels are not normal.

When you have a freemium model like SWTOR does, long Q times are to be expected because

a) hardly anyone subs now
b) restrictions on preferred (limits on 5 warzones/flashpoints a week reduces participation)
c) PvP has been officially killed by Bioware after this thread

As for lag, there isn't much you can do when the game has a clunky engine and bad coding. If you were here for the days of Ilum pvp at launch, you would have seen a marked improvement as the game engine can now handle at least 9 players in combat without major lag.

The future of SWTOR is bleak as the focus turns to money. A Bioware design brief starts 'Where can we make money from items to sell?' - and up pops PLAYER HOUSING.

To me, it's a case now of how much money can they make from idiots paying for items on the cartel market until the game goes belly up and/or fully free to play by Winter 2014. They hardly fix anything, and the majority of SUBS are sick and tired of the 'carrot and stick approach' Bioware use.

With 2 major MMOs due for release, is it any wonder they are offering Subs 'perks' for remaining a sub during the release windows of both TESO and Wildstar? Good luck in your quest to get things moving forward but it will be an impossible task

Yeah I'd prefer for the removal of referrals or at least a limitation when it comes to forums.

Personally, forum posting privileges should be limited to PAYING members. Referrals are cool having viewer access to whatever they want ... they just shouldn't be allowed to touch anything.

This is my opinion as well and something that Bioware should have considered from the very beginning, together with the "Confirm" button for the referral.

That and accounts that unsubscribe should have posting privileges removed the moment they complete the process - regardless of how much time they have left on their subscription. Combine that with a Trojan Horse referral protection plan and we'd lose all of maybe, what ... 40 forum "personalities"? Compared to the ½ million or so active subscribers who are directly supporting the game, that .0001% population loss becomes addition by subtraction imho.

Ya, cause BW is going to take away parts of the game that people paid for. Should go over really well. They should also limit access to FPs/Ops/Wzs etc. for the last week of the month until your subscription gets paid again. Because it's not like you already paid for that month or anything .