Devs at the latest cantina: Class Story, not at the moment...

Because according to torstatus.net, as flawed as that source is, player activity has been falling over the course of the year. I see a substantial (and expected) drop in player activity in the months following RotHC that accelerated in the fall, with a slight recovery around the launch of GSF, but now falling off again. In particular the European PvP servers look extremely weak at the moment.

Housing? Not at the moment
Guild ships? Not at the moment
Off-rails space? Not at the moment

Sound familiar? Read into it what you will.

Because while we cannot gleen exact player counts from torstatus (other then ranged estimations) it is extremely good for tracking trends in populations. And in looking at torstatus over the last years data..... yeah... it is a pretty stable active player population.

I stopped reading after this.

Because the people who left do matter, because it represents lost revenue.
The people who haven't showed up do matter, because it represents potential areas of growth if properly cultivated.

This game is a business. And only the elitist, ignorant, or very foolish say that customers who walk away due to something entirely preventable "do not matter".

Nothing more to say to you.

This is why BW need to rethink their strategy of upcoming content, what are the reason players are leaving? What could we do to bring them back? I do believe updating the Class stories would be a very nice incentive for former subscribers to come back, not the next PVE/PVP gear tier grinding, not the player housing, not the guild ships.

I view this game as a mostly single player story driven game, I care about my characters and their companions, I want more unique quests related to them, this is what Bioware sold us, and the fact this is Star Wars is what made me want to play this game. Sure it will take me a while to level up all the classes and finish their unique stories, plus the companions stories, but once that is done, what else is left in this game that other games don't already do better? You need to give me an incentive, I'm absolutely cool with new flashpoints/operations/daily areas/planetary story content, but as your customer it is not what keeps me staying into this game.

Unless Bioware is slowly pulling the plug?

This is why BW need to rethink their strategy of upcoming content, what are the reason players are leaving? What could we do to bring them back? I do believe updating the Class stories would be a very nice incentive for former subscribers to come back, not the next PVE/PVP gear tier grinding, not the player housing, not the guild ships.

Heh, well if you are looking at the charts on torstatus for the last year and seeing stability, I'm just going to flat out disagree with you. Activity levels look to me as weak as they ever have since the last round of server mergers. Most servers don't even register any time at "heavy" anymore during the week, a few don't even blip up on the weekend, and only the double XP weekends seem to make any servers really busy.

Your viewpoint is myopic. You wanted KOTOR 3-11. But you're playing an MMO.

You want class stories because you've played KOTOR 3-11. Now you want KOTOR 12-14.

Other players want an MMO. They want PvP. They want flash points. They want operations. They want group content. This is because they bought an MMO, not KOTOR 3-11.

So when i saw the words heavy on all the servers earlier this week, that was all in my imagination?

Wait, is this the SWtOR forums or church? We shall now read from the book of KoTOR 3:11; And it shall come to pass that there will be a multitude of players online playing Star Wars, and in it's forums there will be great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and the Revan shall stand in the shadows, waiting.