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Man I love this Q&A

If you are motivated, you can leave your low pop server to join a higher population server, you know, to help your lower population server. Makes complete sense.

LOL, the community didnt force anything, bioware had a bad idea for launch and not enough capacity per server (that is what open betas/stress tests are for) and made another bad choice in opening way more servers than they needed.

The point is to empty the nearly empty servers in order to increase the population per server. If no servers were removed (or emptied) by this process you'd only be taking people away from the healthy servers to slightly improve the ones with problems.

What else would you ask be done?

An argument can be made that the capacity was too low, but the community did force the issue and make them open more servers. The demand was getting so loud that the mainstream news outlets were beginning to take notice. If they hadn't opened more semester the community whining would have made national news, which in turn would have put SWTOR into an early grave. Make no mistake, we're responsible for the increase in servers, and as such the current situation.

Don't blame BioWare.EA was that who was naive to open so many servers and let the game slowly die like warhammer.

BioWare is just a studio making games, they have nothing to do with this.BioWare cant do a thing if EA says different, they are in control, not BioWare.

1) The community cant force anything, if you have three 12 year old chidren screaming that they all want dynamite and matches for christmas, and you the parent get tired of the screaming and give it to them, its your fault, they didnt FORCE you to do anything. you like the devs should have known better because its your job to.

2) They have stated recently that server capacity is now double or more that it was during lauunch, if they could have let twice as many people on a server at launch there would be alot less servers periood and alot less with 30 people on them right now. So no an arguement cant be made, unless you liek arguing agasint common sense.

too late

Actually, not true. I have a friend who worked for Bioware as of 6 months ago. According to him BioWare has pretty much free reign to do whatever they want. The VP's pretty much leave that division alone.

Well, if they shut down the low-pop server, what does it matter? Sounds like motivation to move to me.