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  1. Have you ever worked in customer service? Because I have. All my life. I started working doing food service at 15. I've waited tables, been part of the communications department of a marketing firm. I've handled sales for Sprint etc. People, everywhere, in every aspect of life are whiny little people complaining about every single thing they can find. Over-charge someone 10 cents on an item? They hold up your line for 10 minutes while you get a manger to refund it. Ever have a guy complain because your mexican restauraunt doesn't serve hamburgers? I have. The second someone pays for a service they have the right to ***** about it all they want. Doesn't make it right, doesn't make their complaint valid. But they do have the right. Maybe you could see that in the real world if you didn't spend so much time here. The internet is just like the real world, except people have less of a filter. Walk into the back after being with a pain of a customer and everyone who is working talks **** about the customer. But of course they don't say it to their face. How many times do you think mods or developers see some gamer QQ about something and go "Hey steve! Come look at what this **** wrote!" ? I assume it probably happens all the time.
  2. Okay, first off mods this is not a 'server population is dropping' thread. Please don't auto-redirect it to somewhere else. I've got a serious concern and am asking the community for input. I currently am on a server that is pretty dead. All my friends are gone and the guild of 300 is now a guild of 13. Mostly alts... Point is I am unsure what to do. We know server mergers and or transfers are on the priority list but it may not come till june or july and in what form. Since I don't know if I need to plan on shelling out 25 bucks for each character I don't really know if I should stay on my current server. If I stay on my server I not only have a single player game that I'm paying month to month for, but the more I build up my legacy and other characters then its possible changing them all to a new server come summer may be hard and possibly expensive. Do I stay on my server? Should I reroll? I saved some names on Fatman and the other high pop server but I couldn't save any names on a high population server on the west which is where I am. I have a Knight and a Warrior at level 50 in full columi/champ gear with somewhere over a million credits each. I haven't done Datacrons or anything like that yet but most of my companions are pretty closed to maxed out and such. My legacy is also going to be gone and with 1.2 on the way I'll be missing out for a while. Do I simply wait? My sub is currently not active due to the server population issue. I want to start playing again but I simply don't know what to do I feel very divided.
  3. Your the reason this game is bleeding subs. Not the server merge.
  4. I agree. I feel like this is a sad case of EAware. They spent a huge budget on the voice acting and let the actual game itself fall by the wayside. There are so many things not in this game, it feels lifeless, and the community on most servers is broken. I've spent so much time telling myself it was good, but its just not all it was cracked up to be. 1.2 is introducing very little by comparison to what this game needs to be successful. This game needed more development time it simply was hyped for too long and then fell short. I am struggling because the Star Wars fan in me wants me to come back. I didn't even really play SWG but now I am wishing I had gotten the chance because I thought this was be 'the' star wars experience. Its not even as good as Kotor 3 probably could have been.
  5. I agree completely. I unsubbed due to the server population issues which are still not being addressed till at least the end of this month. Not paying money to sit around and do nothing. They spent so much time developing stories and beautiful VO that it took away from the rest of the game. I think they could of been better off with giving less dialogue and time to the side stories and spent more time on your main quest. Then they'd of had more time to spend on the real issues with the game.
  6. 1, merging servers or transfers or this game is going to be looking about as good as Mace Windu after he got his hands cut off, face shot by lightning, and thrown off a 17+ story window. In short... not very good.
  7. Inb4 the drone factory comes in screaming that this game isn't dying. I am neither supporting nor denying the claim but am wondering how other people feel about it. We currently are looking at a lot of complaints about server population and Bioware has simply stated that we must wait until its available. Most likely the only free transfers will be to that of severely low population or the asian pacific servers. So assuming many people are waiting on a server transfer to continue the game its safe to say many of them will be unwilling to pay money to move when they already spent money and time getting to where they were. The server population is by far the most prominent issue as of late and there seems to be no hope in sight for paying customers. 1.2 seems like mostly fluff and the content is arguably not the best. End game gear still looks weird and uninspired and over-all 1.2 does not appear to be the messiah patch for this game. A lot of basic parts to MMO's are still not in the game and there are still glitches and other issues that need fixing that have not been addressed. D3 and GW2 along with other games are coming out soon and will take a chunk of Bioware's share if they have not successfully started turning things around. Most of the threads here seem to be about server transfers and arguing about choices made in 1.2 and about if people will be leaving or returning to this game anytime soon. However the game is new, has time to grow, and supposedly mergers or transfers of some sort should be coming this month. I don't know current sub numbers and the 1.7 mil from a while back has to have changed by now. Although I'd say these all point to a 'dying game' its hard to say how things will work out in the next few months. tl;dr I think Bioware has a short while to start getting there things together, otherwise this game may end up with the rest of the F2P WoW knock offs. Do you feel like the game is dying from all the news about server populations and 1.2? Or do you feel confident that the game is thriving?
  8. Exactly. People argue in EAware's favor because the share holders will freak if they merge servers. I guess thats more important than there subs because people are leaving the game now more due to the lack of people to play with as opposed to the quality of the game itself. I myself am unsubbed and will only return with transfers. They lose my money and that of everyone else who is unwilling to pay them money to wait a few months. Its simply unacceptable as a business that relies on monthly subs to be so nonchalant about the situation. People don't care about getting to max level or getting good gear because once there they've got very little end game content to look forward too and even if there was a copious amount of things to be done once you hit 50 odds are you are on a server that doesn't have enough people to participate in the said end game content. When I left my server was to the point that 9/10 warzone matches end prematurely because we didn't have enough players even if it was the same faction versus itself. It was almost like cheating because we would just queue up to wait 120 seconds to do it again and gain free valor and wins. But once grinding to battlemaster is over now there is no point to the exploitation of our low server population, now were simply stuck... waiting. Waiting for 15 a month. I've got better things to spend my money on and the real issue here is that many people will agree with me and despite the fact that many people may still play, the drop in population means over-all drop in popularity. If things don't look up with GW2 and D3 around the corner they will be taking some serious hits and the remaining customers will suffer because EAware will be receiving less money, and thus the content will become less polished and over-all the game and its over-all development will decline little by little until there is a small minority of players who play on the remaining live servers. Then they'll either start looking towards F2P options, or try something drastic to raise subs but if that fails then this game might as well start asking LOTRO and the other WoW clones that didn't quite pan out how they should manage to stay limping.
  9. My server is dead. I unsubbed a month ago. Only reason I prowl the forums now is in hopes of some future merge or transfer options. I may return when its available. 1.2 isn't enough to make me come back to a non-existent community. Its fluff and will probably take like 3 or 4 days to get through. But by the time transfers and merges come around I will most likely be playing D3 or Guild Wars 2, and if they have me hooked before this game offers some way to get me off a dead server then I doubt I'll be returning especially when its not free to play.
  10. I experienced this for the first time on my server the other day. I went to my ship to see one person else there. I flew to Coruscant and there were a few people all low level. Tried to chat it up cause I was bored. The 6 people in the zone were all new players and I was really just talking to a wall and mostly getting asked for hand outs. Then I went back to the fleet. There was 1 person. Its like living in a ghost server. Like you can hear the whispers of the people who should be clammoring around you in a mother ******* MMORPG.
  11. Comparing the Launch of Swtor that happened within the last year to WoW that happened almost 8 years ago is like comparing my current computer to the playstation 2 or regular xbox. Hell even xbox 360 was made 5 years ago and its still used today. WoW's launch at its time was a pretty big deal. It was full of server problems, glitches, and many other issues. It started off with more players than mmos at the time had after years of maintaining a customer base. It also pulled this off while being in a market that was very small at the time. Its market sharing. 8 years ago, the whole pie (the consumers of mmos) was significantly smaller, and WoW managed to take a huge percentage of that pie on launch day. Swtor launched 8 years later, with WoW having been a big name and already turning into a beaten horse of an MMO and with many other well known mmos that launched. The pie has grown significantly. Swtor actually had a really good launch. Over a million subs is nothing to gawk at. But, it too was also riddled with issues. WoW didn't really start to 'pick up' until about 6-8 months after launch. Its also around this same time that their subs were starting to increase much faster than they had in the first months after launch. I'd say SWTOR has till around summer time to really pick up its game in order to withstand the barrage of other MMOS that are about to be released. I'd say within the next 4 months we will know if Swtor is going to be turning into another LOTRO or DCUO or if its going to go the way of WoW. But if server population is still a problem come GW2 I have a feeling a lot of people are going to be trading up for the free to play game.
  12. Just no. Where are you getting this information from? WoW had increasing subs for several years steadily and it kept increasing plenty of time after they introduced server mergers, transfers, and free transfers to specific servers due to population issues. And what happened? The game kept increasing in subs. Now lets take a look at Swtor. I wont say its losing subs, but if lack of activity on the message boards, or the significant amount of complaint threads relating to "low population servers" is any indication this game is in need of some help. I am currently unsubbed and waiting until april when the server transfers and mergers start happening so I can play again because I am on my 3rd rerolled server and don't want to reroll again because my server is dead. The above poster was saying that clearly you haven't been paying attention to this thread with numerous population complaints or the various complaints on suggestion or in the weekly Q&A or the general discussion boards. WoW didn't die when it implemented the server transfers and merges. And a huge part of the community who are currently paying customers are asking for it. I don't see where you seem to get the notion that it is a bad thing or that people frown upon it. My evidence supports the theory that merges and transfers would be good for this game. You have no evidence, please locate it and display it or stop talking about a subject you can't back up.
  13. I don't think you really understand how serious the population issue is right now. My sub ends in a week. I have currently been on 3 different servers all of which are DEAD. Were talking warzones that end in 120 seconds because there are not enough players for either side. Nights where I can fly to every single planet during peak hours on a Friday and realize that unless everyone is hiding inside their ships or everyone is playing warzones and raids that there are less than 75 people on the entire server for the Republic. I rerolled once because of my dead server. Remade new characters, got them to 50. That server is now dead and lifeless, I rerolled to a HEAVY server. Now my server is dead too. I can't find a group for raids. The ratio of Republic to Imperial was about 1 to 4. There are never more than 40 people on the Imperial Fleet. The Galactic Trade network has almost no items on it because there are so few players. Most guilds are now 10 man groups and most people know each other and their alts because the community is so small. This is happening on other servers and from what I've been hearing, some are even worse than that. I mean, I thought I was just an unlucky whiney ***** until I started hearing how so many other people are also on different servers than me, having the same problem. Whats the point of an MMO if there is no multiplayer or massive part to the game? I might as well be playing with myself (giggle). Seriously though. I'm on my 3rd level 50 Jedi Knight and am looking at an Imperial Fleet population of 19 right now. Its almost 6:00pm (pst) on a Friday. And the Imperial side is the side with more people... So now not only does all my legacy points and species that I've gotten to level 50 don't matter on my other servers, but now I can mail stuff to my characters who have no use for the money I am sending them since there is nothing to do because there is nobody on my server? Great. Guess that solved my issues. Seriously, I wish they would of just told me why my lightsaber was green. Because thats the only real pressing issue here.
  14. I would entirely agree. I've spent months defending many of this game's choices. And I love the game. But for someone like me, maybe you'd say I was self reliant, maybe you'd say I was a victim. I'd say I am both. I started on the second day of early game access. I made a Jedi Knight on my server. 1 month later I had my Jedi Knight at level 50, my Sith Warrior at level 45 and my smuggler at level 23. My Jedi Knight was already wearing columi and champion gear entirely. My server population had gotten so bad that we would enter a warzone and literally just wait for the 120 seconds to be up in order to get our commendations. We repeated this over and over because even during peak hours there were rarely enough people for a group. Virtually no community and no end game raiding. I thought "Were only a month in, there is sure to be a lot of new players incoming after the first free month." So I re-rolled. Originally my server had started off with long queues, and eventually made its way down to a light server. So I looked around thinking that servers may have stabalized at this point. I joined a new server and played for about 2 weeks. Got my JK to level 50. Less than a month later I was looking at a standard sometimes light server. The Republic side was completely dead. The imperial side had more than 50 people during peak hours on the fleet but they barely peaked at 100 and spent all their time playing warzones against themselves. So again, I rerolled thinking "its not too late." I joined my current server TCP which at the time was heavy-to-full most the day. Now I am sitting with a full BM geared Jedi Knight, a champion geared Sith Warrior, and a smuggler on its way to level 50 (currently 41) as well as over 5 million credits on my Jedi Knight. Now this server is pretty much dead too. Again, the Republic side is completely worthless and the Imperial side is waning. I am not going to sit around waiting for another month of server decay just to re-roll. I just had a baby a month ago, and am working and going to school and also trying to plan a second honey moon and my play time is short. For the first few months I didn't play anything but this game when I had free game playing time. I have re-rolled twice now, gotten to 50, and stopped. I am tired of seeing the Jedi Knight Story line just so I can play my character at 50 like I wanted to. I'm tired of having to find new names because they are already taken. I have actively tried to fix my issue and now and sitting here wondering what to do. I have new characters made on Fat man, and am wondering if I should start leveling them. But I've unsubbed for now. So I think I am going to wait a few months until this game gets back on track, because I have tried to give this game a chance. I have patiently dealt with my issue and still nothing. I think I have every right to be upset.
  15. Hurray another pointless Q&A. I mean FFS why do you even bother anymore? I think questions like "Why is my Lightsaber Green?" would be better. At least you'd have a solid answer. "Because you have a green crystal." Do you remember those GLARING population issues? Servers with 500 people on them? Servers with republic and empire ratios 1 to 10? People (like myself) who are unsubbed and not going to rejoin the game until the server population issue is addressed? No addons, non-basic functions and a $15 dollar fee for the month. But yes, Bioware will do its PR work and completely avoid talking about issues relating to the game because they want to avoid the bad publicity. I was okay with the customer service and there "We don't respond to problems" attitude. This is just kind of getting ridiculous. I love the game despite all its flaws, but I can't play a game where I reroll to a new server every month. I've re-rolled twice now, I'm not doing it again and not paying money just so you can leech off me until you fix your game. so sad right now.
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