The Star Wars Galaxies 6th Anniversary/Empire Day re-entitlement promotion

The Star Wars Galaxies 6th Anniversary/Empire Day re-entitlement promotion kicked off this past weekend and the emails will officially be sent this week. This re-entitlement program was aimed at accounts that have been inactive (closed) longer than 60-days and phase 1 included about 30% of the eligible accounts that have been inactive between April 19, 2009 and January 19, 2008. As of the time of this posting not all of these accounts have been re-entitled, that process should be complete by 12:01 AM when the re-entitlement “officially” kicks off.

The remaining accounts will begin getting re-entitled beginning June 29th and have the same duration of entitled time. We are very excited about the 6th Anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies and the Empire Day celebrations and hope that you will take this opportunity to come back and check out all the fun. Thanks!

If you need to reinstall SWG and don't have the CD's any more, You can download the client by clicking here. This is the trial client but it can be used with a returning vet trial or a full account, no additional download is required.

Why is it called the re-entitlement promotion?

Originally posted by FikusOfAhazi

Why is it called the re-entitlement promotion?

You are once again entitled to play, this time for free, but for a limited time only.

Seems to have been a lot of people coming back so far, a good number signing back up for a subsciption too.

Originally posted by BadgerSmaker

Originally posted by FikusOfAhazi

Why is it called the re-entitlement promotion?

 

You are once again entitled to play, this time for free, but for a limited time only.

Seems to have been a lot of people coming back so far, a good number signing back up for a subsciption too.

Just to point out...you say that after every "re-entitlement" promotion and sub numbers never seem to improve but decline....

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

my eyes

There are people on the OBoards that are complaining about the population drop on the designated transfer to servers. Bria is one of them. I transfered form Intrepid to Bria when the FCT opened. At first the population on Bria was much larger. Now it does not appear to be much bigger then it was on Intrepid before I transfered. It looks like a large portion of the FCTs went to StarStrider.

SWG has been spinning the drain for years, if vet's wanted to come back they would...they don't need some cheap SoE hand-out.

Perhaps if they handled this game properly they would be trying to tempt us with the meger table scraps they consider a 'deal'....but that's fine, MxO is dead and SWG will follow it if Old Republic is half as good as it appears.

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

 

my eyes

You need glasses then. Lets look at the GCW numbers tomorrow if they put them out, they were up over 1,000 for the last time they were reported. Unfortunate that that is the only hard numbers you can get from the game though.

And the Bria poster was slammed on his own galaxie forum and the main general discussion forum, Bria is doing just fine.

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

 

my eyes

What server do you play on, Valeran?

I put together some server population stats recently, you can see the effect of the Free Character Transfer on the different servers.

As Gutboy says, paticipation in the GCW ranking system has increased by 2000 players or so since GU10 and I will be making a new chat on that later tonight.

Green: Destination server
Yellow: Destination server
Red: "Transfer from" server.

West Coast USA Servers

Flurry - 1219 GCW Ranked players and 188 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Bria - 910 GCW Ranked players and 187 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Ahazi - 726 GCW Ranked players and 152 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Sunrunner - 233 GCW Ranked players and 69 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Kettemoor - 1 GCW Ranked players and 7 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Valycn - 12 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Corbantis - 1 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Intrepid - 0 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Scylla - 5 GCW Ranked players and 3 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Naritus - 1 GCW Ranked players and 2 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Tempest - 2 GCW Ranked players and 3 Rank 2 or above player cities.

East Coast USA Servers

Starsider - 1749 GCW Ranked players and 216 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Bloodfin - 931 GCW Ranked players and 184 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Chilastra - 861 GCW Ranked players and 155 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Shadowfire - 380 GCW Ranked players and 93 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Radiant - 363 GCW Ranked players and 76 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Gorath - 334 GCW Ranked players and 87 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Eclipse - 334 GCW Ranked players and 84 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Kauri - 9 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Lowca - 3 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Tarquinas - 0 GCW Ranked players and 6 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Wanderhome - 0 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.

European Servers

Europe-Chimaera - 827 GCW Ranked players and 162 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Europe-FarStar - 903 GCW Ranked players and 156 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Europe-Infinity - 3 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.

Here's some stats on how the servers ended up as they are currently due to the Free CTS:

Originally posted by Gutboy

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

 

my eyes

 

You need glasses then. Lets look at the GCW numbers tomorrow if they put them out, they were up over 1,000 for the last time they were reported. Unfortunate that that is the only hard numbers you can get from the game though.

And the Bria poster was slammed on his own galaxie forum and the main general discussion forum, Bria is doing just fine.

So now the GCW stats are good enough to make the case for good population numbers?  I thought only a tiny portion of the population participated...you cannot have it both ways.  They start handing out GCW points like candy and all of a sudden there is a population boom?  Get real.

Originally posted by BadgerSmaker

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

 

my eyes

 

What server do you play on, Valeran?

I put together some server population stats recently, you can see the effect of the Free Character Transfer on the different servers.

As Gutboy says, paticipation in the GCW ranking system has increased by 2000 players or so since GU10 and I will be making a new chat on that later tonight.

Green: Destination server
Yellow: Destination server
Red: "Transfer from" server.

West Coast USA Servers

Flurry - 1219 GCW Ranked players and 188 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Bria - 910 GCW Ranked players and 187 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Ahazi - 726 GCW Ranked players and 152 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Sunrunner - 233 GCW Ranked players and 69 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Kettemoor - 1 GCW Ranked players and 7 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Valycn - 12 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Corbantis - 1 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Intrepid - 0 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Scylla - 5 GCW Ranked players and 3 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Naritus - 1 GCW Ranked players and 2 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Tempest - 2 GCW Ranked players and 3 Rank 2 or above player cities.

East Coast USA Servers

Starsider - 1749 GCW Ranked players and 216 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Bloodfin - 931 GCW Ranked players and 184 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Chilastra - 861 GCW Ranked players and 155 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Shadowfire - 380 GCW Ranked players and 93 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Radiant - 363 GCW Ranked players and 76 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Gorath - 334 GCW Ranked players and 87 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Eclipse - 334 GCW Ranked players and 84 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Kauri - 9 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Lowca - 3 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Tarquinas - 0 GCW Ranked players and 6 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Wanderhome - 0 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.

European Servers

Europe-Chimaera - 827 GCW Ranked players and 162 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Europe-FarStar - 903 GCW Ranked players and 156 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Europe-Infinity - 3 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.

Here's some stats on how the servers ended up as they are currently due to the Free CTS:

 

The FCTS just shuffles the deck chairs.  As for the increase in GCW rankings...so now it is good enough to show good population numbers because it supports your stance?  You can't have it both ways Badger.

Originally posted by Valeran

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Just to point out...you say that after every "re-entitlement" promotion and sub numbers never seem to improve but decline....

Oh they are going to close it ..... it's dead...SWG has jumped the shark this time they are........no this time for sure....and .....now ....no no now....and Now.

Meanwhile SOE is laughing all the way to the bank.

Originally posted by todeswulf

Originally posted by Valeran

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Just to point out...you say that after every "re-entitlement" promotion and sub numbers never seem to improve but decline....

 

Oh they are going to close it ..... it's dead...SWG has jumped the shark this time they are........no this time for sure....and .....now ....no no now....and Now.

Meanwhile SOE is laughing all the way to the bank.

I never said close did I?  SOE is not doing too much smiling looking at their divisional income numbers.  

Originally posted by todeswulf

Meanwhile SOE is laughing all the way to the bank.

LOL!!!!!!!!!

Trying to use GCW number increases as a means to substantiate increased general server pop? Get real man, I know SOE pays you to suck them off and all that, but this is just ridiculous.

Of COURSE GCW numbers are going to increase when you make it obscenely easy to get points. Show me concurrent user data for the last three months of server up time or gtfo. And don't tell me SOE doesn't have them, because if they don't then that means they aren't keeping accurate records. Or show me finacial statements for the last fiskal quarter that prove a substantial subscriber base increase. Don't have those either? Hmmm, didn't think so.

SWG is dying out like a stuck boar. It's still going to thrash about and make a lot of racket and get blood all over the place, but in the end it's going to die. SOE doesn't know what they're doing, that much is obvious. They have absolutely no idea what their players want or if they do they just don't care, which is worse.

Stop defending a game that should be so much greater than it is. There are plenty of figures to PROVE that after the CU and NGE SWG lost anywhere from 400-700k subscribers. Since NGE SWG has not seen subscriber numbers much above 150k and you are seriously going to defend that?

You go from slowly, but steadily, gaining subscribers and fans to losing at minimum 60%+ of your subscriber base nearly all at once and another 20% over time and you think that's OK? You think having NEVER recovered those losses after all these years iis OK? You think blatantly lieing straight to your customers faces about what is going on is OK? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Wait....wait for it....AAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I've kept myself mostly quiet about SWG for all these years, but I'm just sick of people still bending over for them. I'm alright if people enjoy the game, not my business to tell them what to like. I have a MAJOR problem with people trying to advertise for the game, spouting it's merits (that aren't there btw) and then defending it at every turn. If you like the game then go play it quietly and in another 3-6 months you can wonder where everyone is as your servers become ghost towns again.

Oh yeah, Badger? You might not want to post all those GCW figures. Because the -majority- of them weren't even above 400 and lot of them were like 0, 12, 5, 2, 0 etc. Just a protip.

Edit: Meant 400, not 300.

Originally posted by BadgerSmaker

Originally posted by Valeran

Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

 

my eyes

 

What server do you play on, Valeran?

I put together some server population stats recently, you can see the effect of the Free Character Transfer on the different servers.

As Gutboy says, paticipation in the GCW ranking system has increased by 2000 players or so since GU10 and I will be making a new chat on that later tonight.

Green: Destination server
Yellow: Destination server
Red: "Transfer from" server.

West Coast USA Servers

Flurry - 1219 GCW Ranked players and 188 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Bria - 910 GCW Ranked players and 187 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Ahazi - 726 GCW Ranked players and 152 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Sunrunner - 233 GCW Ranked players and 69 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Kettemoor - 1 GCW Ranked players and 7 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Valycn - 12 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Corbantis - 1 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Intrepid - 0 GCW Ranked players and 5 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Scylla - 5 GCW Ranked players and 3 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Naritus - 1 GCW Ranked players and 2 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Tempest - 2 GCW Ranked players and 3 Rank 2 or above player cities.

East Coast USA Servers

Starsider - 1749 GCW Ranked players and 216 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Bloodfin - 931 GCW Ranked players and 184 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Chilastra - 861 GCW Ranked players and 155 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Shadowfire - 380 GCW Ranked players and 93 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Radiant - 363 GCW Ranked players and 76 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Gorath - 334 GCW Ranked players and 87 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Eclipse - 334 GCW Ranked players and 84 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Kauri - 9 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Lowca - 3 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Tarquinas - 0 GCW Ranked players and 6 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Wanderhome - 0 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.

European Servers

Europe-Chimaera - 827 GCW Ranked players and 162 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Europe-FarStar - 903 GCW Ranked players and 156 Rank 2 or above player cities.
Europe-Infinity - 3 GCW Ranked players and 4 Rank 2 or above player cities.

Here's some stats on how the servers ended up as they are currently due to the Free CTS:

 

So Badger, if we take your hypothesis that there's a surge in population based on the numbers you present in regards to the GCW, can we also posit that almost half the servers are practically empty because they have 12 or fewer officers? It appears 12 of the 25 servers are red and have less than a dozen officers.

If I'm understanding you, the bump in officer numbers on several servers is indicative of either a migration of players or of new players/old vets jumping into the game. So how do you explain such low numbers on half the servers, other than the recent migration? Do you think that's a positive reflection of a game with a healthy sub base, and should those 12 servers be shut down or condensed?  I'm just curious as to what your take on that is.

Originally posted by BadgerSmaker

Originally posted by FikusOfAhazi

Why is it called the re-entitlement promotion?

 

You are once again entitled to play, this time for free, but for a limited time only.

Seems to have been a lot of people coming back so far, a good number signing back up for a subsciption too.

Haven't we been punished enough already? "Shudders at thought of NGE". It's the one train wreck I don't want to watch.

dude my account is set to closed but states 7/1/09 so am I not eligible for a re-entitlement?

what gives, i'm not getting my free month and i really wanna check things out b4 I sub???? :(

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Originally posted by Gutboy

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Originally posted by Valeran

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Originally posted by Gutboy

And your source for saying that sub numbers go down every time is?

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my eyes

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You need glasses then. Lets look at the GCW numbers tomorrow if they put them out, they were up over 1,000 for the last time they were reported. Unfortunate that that is the only hard numbers you can get from the game though.
And the Bria poster was slammed on his own galaxie forum and the main general discussion forum, Bria is doing just fine.

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You can't fart while logged into SWG now without gaining GCW points

Originally posted by Harleyrider

So Badger, if we take your hypothesis that there's a surge in population based on the numbers you present in regards to the GCW, can we also posit that almost half the servers are practically empty because they have 12 or fewer officers? It appears 12 of the 25 servers are red and have less than a dozen officers.

If I'm understanding you, the bump in officer numbers on several servers is indicative of either a migration of players or of new players/old vets jumping into the game. So how do you explain such low numbers on half the servers, other than the recent migration? Do you think that's a positive reflection of a game with a healthy sub base, and should those 12 servers be shut down or condensed?  I'm just curious as to what your take on that is.

Those stats just show you where everyone is playing these days, I've no idea what will be done with the servers that currently allow a free transfer, I play on Infinity a lot these days so would be nice to know as well.

The migration of players all started after the NGE, for two years we had really broken PvE that was easily solable, you could solo the HK-47 instance and take a walk on your own to the bottom of the DeathWatch Bunker and pick off the Death Watch Overlord it was that easy. 

Chapter 6 in 2007 changed all that, making PvE challenging again as it was Pre-NGE, although many players relished this increased difficulty, many found it hard to find the groups required for the content as SWG at the time had no community tools to help you find groups, such as "Looking for Group" chat channels and player search tools.

Players either paid to transfer to more active server communities where groups were more readily available, or re-rolled a new character and leveled up.  The Free Character Transfer then killed off twelve servers and left five on 1/3 of the population of the top eight servers because few people chose to transfer there.

Here's a chart I made on how this panned out:

I do think SWG has a healthy sub base, for a six year old game with the most controversial history in an MMORPG it is doing great.  Development on the game is very active and is dictated by player feedback, which I think is quite unique in the gaming industry, SWG in itself is rather unique too, which is what I think keeps people playing and brings so many people back.

Originally posted by BadgerSmaker

Development on the game is very active and is dictated by player feedback, which I think is quite unique in the gaming industry,

Who asked for cupid ewoks?

Who asked for a Storm Tropper bobble head?

Who asked for a complete replication of the WoW honor system?

Who asked for trading card loot items ingame?

The list is endless.

And your assumption that there's more people ingame now because there's more GCW officers is just as laughable, it's like saying there's more people in the world now than there was in 1901, because 287% more people drive cars than they did in 1901.
 

Originally posted by BadgerSmaker

I do think SWG has a healthy sub base, for a six year old game with the most controversial history in an MMORPG it is doing great.  Development on the game is very active and is dictated by player feedback, which I think is quite unique in the gaming industry, SWG in itself is rather unique too, which is what I think keeps people playing and brings so many people back.

Was it player feedback that created the RMT card games?  How about station cash?  How about exchange servers?  How did things go with the first friday feature of the new community manager?  Do you think he makes a good example of a company listening to their players?

SOE makes it a very clear habit to not listen to their players in many instances.  That is why certain topics are prohibited on forums or they stealth patch in changes with little to no discussion with the community.  They might create a forum for people to discuss their dissent with these changes and promises to listen, but at the very same time the devs are giving interviews with gaming sites saying the changes are there to stay.  That doesn't sound like a company listening to their players if you ask me.

Seriously, they are unique in listening to players?  I can think of half a dozen companies that have a real relationship with thier customers let alone soe being unique in their listening to their players.  I'm fairly certain you can go back each and every year for the last half dozen years and find quotes of soe promising to listen the customers in the future.  If they do what you say, why do they have to make those comments?