The end of the arguement. Is SWTOR in decline? Can it be saved?

Check for yourself, it's really not that difficult.

Data? Citation? Anything to prove that this is not a completely made up statement?

Stage 1 in losing a debate: Name calling.

If you can find any factual errors in my posting, please point them out.

I'm not sure what we are supposed to learn from the inventory at one store. It is, however still the number #6 best selling PC game on bestbuy.com. I have a sneaking suspicion that those who buy the game also create accounts to play...

Bioware has done a lot right with SWTOR, but the declining subscriptions are entirely on them...there's not a better competitor sniping subs. The biggest issue I see is responsiveness to issues, as in they have none. On my main, I somehow got a class quest twice. I could only complete it once, after which my story progressed beyond the point at which I could complete it...though there was a weird point where I had both phases of the story going at the same time, and both required me to talk to the same guy, but he was about 15 feet away from where he'd been originally, so I had two copies of them, only the "fresh" copy interactable. I submitted a ticket and was told "Sorry, we can't remove that quest from your log. Too bad". Similarly, the imperial side daily on Ilum that gets bugged out every reset. It's a wholly uncomplicated mission...interact with thing on ground, fight x mobs (or x time) defending it. Profit. 3 months after release it *still* hadn't been corrected, and their only response was "known issue, we're investigating." Meanwhile, one faction can't earn as many daily commendations as the other, because there's a flaw in one of the few things for a level 50 to do. Ilum was a good example in general of Bioware's basic approach of "do nothing until we absolutely, positively have to...then kneejerk like its a brand new issue and do the wrong thing."

If I leave, it'll be because Bioware doesn't care to fix their mistakes, not even the easy ones.

Stage 1 In Continuing to Lose A Debate: Beating around the bush/avoiding the question

You are in denial over the state of the game and without more people waking up and demanding the game change it will do much worse than it could if fans lit a fire under Bioware to improve the server issues, balancing, merges, etc.

News about EA's recent layoff is not new. It's been circulating for a while now. And 'evidence' in the first link about BF3 and SWTOR having a poor commercial performance is just some guy talking out of his ***.

An interesting analogy, but I'm not sure how you would incorporate cardiogenic shock (heart failure from either diminished contractility or arrhythmia), so it's an imperfect fit. Also, if the shock is purely hypovolemic and not hemorrhagic (say from dehydration -- perhaps that would be server congestion from volume contraction in this case) it can be fixed by volume infusion (crystalloid or colloid -- not sure how this would fit the analogy either) rather than blood transfusion (new players).

Perhaps the recent 7-day offer is the equivalent of a cell saver, allowing Bioware to "reinfuse" some players who have already "hemorrhaged"?

Populations did go down starting in January, you went from seeing 200+ people on the fleet across many servers and then peaking under 100.

Hundreds of thousands of people only did the first free month, and from their tactics with the 30 free days (the timing of it), they either expect to lose 100K+ more, or already have had people cancel their 3 month subs and are just riding it out.

I highly doubt there were 300,000 people who bought the game but didn't ever play the game. There may be a few, but the overwhelming majority of those 300,000 people will be those who entered their credit card so that they could use the free month, and then immediately cancelled subscription, only riding out the free month before they were billed.

It's a simplified analogy yes, of course die hard fanboys on these forums will claim the life threatening illness of this game to be "Septic Shock" claiming everything wrong is from the "trolls and 4chanz" on the forums, so there's another one huh?