General Discussion is populated by complaint threads about population, and also lack of features/broken features. It's always pretty negative, but it seems like there is a rising tide of discontent as population drops for various reasons.

I almost feel bad for the mods over there, because they have to police this stuff as part of their job. One poster actually proposed that Lucasarts was thinking of shifting the game to another studio because of the dropped subs and botched patches. That thread was closed, but man. This looks disastrous.

http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=255 

Usual mass censorship going on at swtor.com.

This post says it all, posting it here since it will get deleted along with everything else on their official forums in the next few mins.

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First!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=311346

SWTOR forums look the same to me. I guess you have to visit them really often to see heavy moderating.

Anyway, I agree, D3 will make a big dent in active player numbers. GW2 will probably finish the job.

Originally posted by Bombzaway

First!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=311346

omg this made me laugh! hilarious. did you do this just to prove the point? lolz

Ive been waiting months to post this thread from official SWtor forums!  the date is the day I cancelled my sub 18th of Feb 100% legit post LOL!

It's too late for SWTOR, I enjoyed playing it for three months, then it got stale fast, gradually I stopped logging in, now i'm done. I've already ordered Tera and pre-ordered Gw2, As a big star wars fan I am very dissapointed with how SWTOR turned out. The game will run the same course as Age of Conan. Well it was fun while it lasted.

The real disaster is the community and their treatment of an expensive attempt at an MMO. Surely, after seeing the shitstorm Bioware was engulfed in, no new big money is willing to attempt the risk of making an expensive MMO. Just not worth it.

Swtor is the biggest fail in mmo history. EA can't even make a successful star wars game..what kind of idiots do they employ at all. if swtor didn't have lightsabers you wouldn't even know it was a star wars game.

Originally posted by Barbarbar

The real disaster is the community and their treatment of an expensive attempt at an MMO. Surely, after seeing the shitstorm Bioware was engulfed in, no new big money is willing to attempt the risk of making an expensive MMO. Just not worth it.

Blame the community? For a crappy game?

Wow.

The SWTOR forums are the ugliest, most negative, and most censored in 12 years of MMORPGs.

And can you play the players? No....because with the millions upon millions of dollars spent to make SWTOR, the huge amount of Star Wars lore, the largest game publisher EA and one of the best dev studios BIOWARE, there is NO EXCUSE for the design flaws of SWTOR.

The biggest flaw being that it is a WoW clone....period.

The only thing original in SWTOR is the 100% Voice Dialog and interesting stories, with the exception of Jedi (blah).

People expected alot more that just WoW in space....and unfortunately, its nto even as good as WoW...and I hate WoW.

In fact, PvP in WoW is more fun than in SWTOR.....and thats a sin.

The curse of big IPs continues.....

Originally posted by UnleadedRev

The curse of big IPs continues.....

A curse of crappy developers/companies is more like it.

Put these good IPs in the hands of competent people and then we'll see something good.

The game has a million subs but 40% of people think it will be F2P at the end of the year? Are gamers really this out of touch with reality?

I honestly can't put my finger on what it was that made me slowly stop playing SWTOR.  I loved the Smuggler story and the characters (I absolutely adored Corso).  The combat was just sort of boring, and the side quests were very meh.  I just found that over time I stopped logging in and didn't want to play that often. 

The low population was a problem as well....to be logged on and have only two other people in the zone was very...well disappointing. 

I hope that it doesn't go away but that something is revamped and made better over time.  I really did like the changes with the legacy system, that makes it interesting but it wasn't enough to hold me.  

Originally posted by huskie77

The game has a million subs but 40% of people think it will be F2P at the end of the year? Are gamers really this out of touch with reality?

It may have a million subs now, but it will not in a few months' time.

Originally posted by huskie77

The game has a million subs but 40% of people think it will be F2P at the end of the year? Are gamers really this out of touch with reality?

show me proof that the game has a million subs, if you believe that you are truly out of touch with reality. the game is going to lose sub every month, there is no way this game can recover. it will be f2p by january. It's the biggest piece of static shit i have ever played. warhammer gets kicked around alot but that game was fun for awhile, swtor was always just plain shit.

Originally posted by huskie77

The game has a million subs but 40% of people think it will be F2P at the end of the year? Are gamers really this out of touch with reality?

That and a majority of the people active on mmorpg.com are not playnig SWTOR, hence you will see a lot of bias aimed against it. Numbers don't lie, if swtor has over a million subs, then I'm sorry but I don't care how much you hate the game, it's a success.

Advice to haters? Go play Tera, or something. I'm going back to my desktop screen to twiddle my thumbs while waiting for D3.

Originally posted by Istavaan

Originally posted by huskie77

The game has a million subs but 40% of people think it will be F2P at the end of the year? Are gamers really this out of touch with reality?

show me proof that the game has a million subs, if you believe that you are truly out of touch with reality. the game is going to lose sub every month, there is no way this game can recover. it will be f2p by january. It's the biggest piece of static shit i have ever played. warhammer gets kicked around alot but that game was fun for awhile, swtor was always just plain shit.

How could you possible ask for proof of something with a statement like this?

Originally posted by Istavaan

Originally posted by huskie77

The game has a million subs but 40% of people think it will be F2P at the end of the year? Are gamers really this out of touch with reality?

show me proof that the game has a million subs, if you believe that you are truly out of touch with reality. the game is going to lose sub every month, there is no way this game can recover. it will be f2p by january. It's the biggest piece of static shit i have ever played. warhammer gets kicked around alot but that game was fun for awhile, swtor was always just plain shit.

This. I too had way more fun in Warhammer Online. Simply because the PVP was actually fun! Despite the flaws with keeps later on and their inability to fix Tier4.

I played Warhammer Online for over 5 months fulltime as only MMO and might have played a little longer, if it wasn't for my EU server dying out and nothing happening anymore.

SW:TOR just became a SPACEBAR spamming borefest, with extremely stale PVE content.  PVP is non-existent and absolutely the most horrible PVP I have ever encountered in any game.

The irony here is, that Bioware has just proven that you can sugarcoat your game with 100% voice overs, but if your PVE is stale and boring... no amount of sugarcoating is going to cover that up!  Even in Warhammer Online the PVE with Public Quests, etc... was more fun! There was a ton more socializing going on in WAR than I have ever encountered in my 3 months in SW:TOR!!

There should be an option for the game is already dead now.  there are oinly about 15 NA  servers left that are not dead.  Bioware may tell you the population is 1.3 million but its more like 0.3 million and heading south quickly.  If the dropoff continues at the rate it is in another month there will only be 3-4 viable servers left.

If you don't believe it check Tor-Status and you will ntoice everyday the dropoof gets bigger and bigger.  The game is close to being dead right now.