Server Population is GROWING!

People love to use this site to bash TOR so guess it is fair game to use it: http://www.torstatus.net/shards/us/stats

Take note of the Population change column. Significantly more +x.xx than -x.xx

I never played WoW. Last two MMORPGS I played were Runes of Magic and Aion. Both had better LFG options than SWTOR for just on example.

And they were as simple as you can get. A global LFG chat channel.

You're telling me it never occurred to someone in Mythic that people having to sit in Fleet for hours spamming general chat that only goes Fleet wide LFG for a Flashpoint?

That didn't reek of bad-design to them?

Yikes.

I'm seeing growth, you're seeing decline, there's no way to say anything meaningful about whether the game as a whole is growing or shrinking.

A general way of looking at it is the server list in game. There used to be quite a few heavy populated servers for Europe and it is now down to 1-2. Likewise, lightly populated servers did not exsist and now there is a lot of them.

There is a decline, no denying that, how big is up for debate. See what happens in the next week when resubs kick/do not kick in.

Sadly population is not growing. It's shrinking.

Hopefully 1.2 will bring a rise, but an OP and a FP can only interest you for so long, oh and a WZ.

The IF on my server has taken a huge hit, at one point it was 300ish at peak times, not it's 150 or less.

Sunday has been the busiest day for this game the last month, so I will be checking numbers.

Nope. I've seen heavy servers when I logged in. No one but BW has any idea whether the game is growing or shrinking.

I understand that a lot of forum posters have created this shared consensual reality that the game is shrinking, but there's absolutely nothing hard behind it, just people reinforcing each other's opinions.

Well, as "inaccurate" as the statistics might be, It gives you a good idea. I'm sure your on a higher populated server that at least stays on "standard" or above. This would give new players a bigger reason to roll onto them as there's more players.

Fact is its happening, maybe not on your server, maybe not on others but servers are suffering, and those that are need to be sorted out. I'm up for playing the game, but re rolling and remaking all the classes I've leveled to 50 so far on another server, isn't really an option.

But there seems to be more information pointing towards decline than a growth. And im not sure which servers you'd be on EU or US. But personally, Uthar Wynn EU - there's been a decline, and even though its sort of averaged out at about 40-50 or so in Fleet now compared to 100+ about a week-two ago its just a shame