Server population is dropping...

Why is Bioware silent on this? This entire thread is like one large support group. No indication of what is being done, just a lot of us venting our frustrations back and forth. I have no doubt SOMEBODY from Bioware is reading it.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in one of their meetings where they talk about server population...

Krayiss Obelisk -0.19 change since last week.
The Fatman has more than 2.5 times the population.
The Fatman has a +0.21 increase!



BioWare, do you want everyone to reroll to The Fatman?! Nobody should be forced to start over to enjoy a game. For every person that rerolls, I'm sure 1 or more simply cancel their subs. Do something and quit ignoring people.

im sure someone from bioware will come along,and lock the topic probably because 90 percent of suggestions are bad like usual and half the topic is filled with nothing but arguing or complaints

but hey,when the day comes were the community gets tired of being high population server obsessed and starts sticking with there low pop servers then maybe bioware will do something.until then,i doubt it.because server transfers will bring more harm then good,and server merges will only open the flood gates to the trolls who claim sw tor as being dead

Thanks for the perfect example.

And what low pop server with 3-30 people on a peak time do you play on? Oh no, thats what we thought. Until you are willing to level up a 50 on a low pop server and watch as you can do nothing in game that requires people at endgame you have no right to even post in this thread. You lose, good day sir.

The numbers you are quoting are not populations. When you say The Fatman has 2.5 times the population (based on those numbers), that is false.

The numbers you see on that site are numerical representations of the server load described on BioWare's server status page. They do not represent population. Read the About page on that site.

If you want to see actual populations, you need to roll characters on those servers and start doing /who searches.

If you do that, you just might find that The Fatman has way more than 2.5 times the population of most Light servers...

I'm not about to waste my time doing all that. I know this server I started on is just about dead now. The population is dropping and TOR Status shows it as well. There's only 3 earpieces for level 49-50 on the GTN. There used to be pages of them. I used to list at least 10 myself. Myself and another guy must be the only 2 Cybertechs on the server. When I search for crafting materials, the results are just pathetic!

BioWare has a duty and obligation to fix this. This is very poor management. Very SOE like, which I consider to be a slumlord of MMOs.

No argument there. BioWare needs to either fix it or accept the loss of subscriptions and bad publicity.

I believe they "want" to fix it.

But I've come to the conclusion that they can't. Honestly, the client performance cannot handle more 16 people near one another. I'm afraid this is a pretty big blunder on their part. Maybe loss of subscriptions will make them wake up because while new subs are happening the cancels are at a faster rate.

The key then becomes can you win said subscribers back... My money is no, you can't. Why? Because D3 is around the corner as is GW2. Not saying they are better but starting fresh in one game vs. another is easier especially if you have a bad taste in your mouth. Furthermore, while some don't many people who play these types of games try the new games anyway.

So damned if you do, damned if you don't. Again, server merges should have been done before 1.2 patch. The game already had enough content compared to anything else in regards to "RETAIL" content.

yep I give up. Looks like no response from the tor side, so either they dont care or dont know how to deal with it. Either way, Im unsubbed now and waiting on the time to run out... guess Ill have to go try out wow's new beta for now see how that goes.