Obviously they're going to close servers and in doing so, they have to give the few remaining people a choice on where to go. If I go back to my old server and see 9 people online in the fleet at top hours, while the destination server has 600+ people, it isn't exactly a bad choice to close that dying server down, so new people to the game don't roll on it and leave after 10 levels because they can't find anyone to do quests with.

TOR won't hold up WoW-like numbers, people have been telling that to haters and super-fanboys alike from before launch, not holding those up doesn't mean that they're going to close down the whole game however.

The game isn't even released yet in large parts of the world, after they've done that, the real worst-case scenario for this game is going F2P.

Apart from APB-like scenarios, that really is the fate of unpopular MMO's right now, instead of death. Heck, even APB didn't stay dead forever.

Originally posted by SeanSPS

Originally posted by ktanner3
Never use these forums as a yardstick for what you should be playing because youll be left lurking the area and hating everything. If you enjoyed it when you played it then you still will when you return.

Very true, haha. Agreed.

I agree.

Last night I went over my girlfriend's sister's house and her daughter of 9 loves SWToR. She plays is alongside her father. I watched her battle and travel around alderan and then when she headed back to the hangar she exclaimed in glee "see, there's my ship!".

Between her and her father they have a number of characters that allow them to take advantage of the legacy system. both of them have a blast.

Watching that reminded me that not everyone is so cynical and demanding and disgruntled as these forums might infer.

The game is still graphically non-optimized, linear questing loading screen fest.

However, there are more poeple online now, but not as much as you would expect when looking at 10:1 server reduction ratio.

Still, if you are like me, and want to finish up some class stories on your numerous alts, before GW2 or something better comes along, then yes, it's worth another month or two of playing, as a filler MMO.

Originally posted by MosesZD

Originally posted by Fdzzaigl

Originally posted by SeanSPS

I only left 'cause I didn't have the time to play it at all, hah. I'd really like to play it more eventually, so to me it sounds like it's not doing so bad. Except for the fact that they had to merge servers at all in the first place, but I think that is Bioware's over-optimistic fault... I do remember wondering why the heck they had so many servers at launch.

Because of complaints from customers who were stuck in 8 hour+ queues every evening :)

 

No.   That's not even close.   It's just a myth started by people who didn't want to accept the game is crashing and dying for other reasons.

 

Full servers with 890K purchases.   Now a 10-to-1, or so, server merger with 2.34 million purchases.  

 

If the game was good, those servers would still be full.   You can't increase servers by 45%, increase units sold by 262% and have empty servers unless there is a problem with the game.   It just defies logic to conclude otherwise.

 

The reason they added servers was because they correctly forcasted sales growth.  From EGA to the end of December, they added another 800K gamers.   From the end of EGA to the end of January, they added 1.3 million gamers.    That was more than enough to fill all those servers and demand even more being opened.

 

Yet we have 90% of servers are ghost towns (pre-transfer).  The reason there are so many empty servers is because the game, for what appears to the be the vast majority of purchasers, wasn't worth sticking around for...

 

You need to give it a rest.

The game has experienced attrition in the 50% range, which is well within the average of other MMOs.

The posted loss of 400k subs is an average of 2k per server. Nearly every server, with few exceptions, spent the day on light status when game shipped. Then in the evening all would reach at least normal status.  As things progressed, and we got the posters going mental about what is happening, the shit stirring began  spiraling out of control. Witness these forums. 200k subs left? Yeah OK. More like BW spread folks too far apart, and when attrition hit, it made small servers feel totally barren.

The game should of launched with these levels of players on each server. That is BWs fault, and they paid the price in subs of persons that left cause they couldnt find others to game with on their server.

You have spun post after post that this game is dead, and yet I sure dont see it. It will continue to be one of the biggest profit makers in the MMO genre. Sandbox MMO gamers would give their left nut to play a game that is assured a future like TOR is.

Yeah, probably best time resub now, before server populations die off again / game shuts down.

If it does a 180 and improves leaps and bounds, then that will be a bonus, and it could be your favourite MMO!

Id wait till the first expansion, its never bad to be careful when words like "EA"+"MMO" are involved.