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I have to agree with Veluthurk, I've always had more difficulty running content during the summer. In WoW, City of Heroes, EQ2, and WAR, the population seems to be quieter. It may just be a matter of players continuing to play the same hours a week as usual, but varying that time throughout the day. This would account for a significant lessening of the population during what would normally be peak hours. Or it is possible that people actually play MMORPGs less during these summer months, for a variety of reasons.

In any case, if you do some searching you'll see that it's not just player perception. Those working in the industry have noted several times over the years that activity appears to drop over the summer months.

Fleet is a benchmark because everyone visits it and it tends to be the highest Pop zone. Every Zone is dead on some servers. Correllia has fewer than three people on it when I do my dallies, Taris, Belsavis,Hoth, Nar Shaada, etc., almost always have fewer than 10 people. PvP Ques are over 20+ minutes at prime and hours out of prime. Sticking your hands in your ears and yelling, LA LA LA won’t change the reality – there are A LOT of incredibly low pop servers.

PS. Summer almost always results in lower population. This makes a lot of sense if you live in the North Eastern US and other countries with a Winter.

So you had an easier time when people have work/school/etc than not? I mean do you think people leave for 5 months out of the year to go on vacation? Seriously every game has higher populations in the summer months.

Oh ya because we know gamers when given the choice would rather go outside than play MMOs or other games.

My experience is that generally there are more people online in winter, with the exception of the holidays. People want to spend more time outside in the summer. College students, if they have summer jobs, tend to have more rigid schedules than they do during school.

Needs to be sooner, I am quitting this game to play WoW and i am only quitting cause pvp on The Razor is only going on when a PVP guild is log in and rdy to go. Plus have to look all day to find a tank and healer for anything. I am very dissapointed that you are giving this to us now should have been sooner. The Razor is a dead server. And other guilds are taking ppls from other guilds to cause 1 big guild that has and knows all boss fights. Bio if u dont gives this sooner allot of ppls will quit. I truely love Star Wars but if u dont give what the people want then u have failed. Also another thing i like to see happend other than transfers is cross server pvp. I am trierd to go to Illum where there no war going on. I want to play on another server but i dont feel like lvling another 50 since i already have 2 of them.

Yeah, I'm not able to comment on whether there are more or less people online during the summer because I'm not usually online much during the summer to see.