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    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Caelrie

    To get over 60 days you click north america or europe up top, click population trends below the table that pops, on the graph that pops up there is a slider function below it to allow you to select any period in time from upto around a year ago.

     

    Thanks! That makes that site much more useful.

     

    If you run it from Oct to now you see a clear decline in heavy status ( never happens again ) from Feb onwards which ties in with my own personal in game observations around population declining.

    This is useful in that it shows all servers as a whole as opposed to one server where you are left wondering if one trend could be offset by another server receiving population.

     

    A increasing population would increase this heavy status thus you cannot say the population is increasing at all.

    You can say a) the population has declined and is now fairly static b) torstatus is wrong and should be ignored c) they have increased server capacity so much that heavy status never occurs anymore.

    But you just admitted above that Bioware upgraded the servers, so standard now may be above heavy a year ago. Without knowing exact percentages of capacity increase, the usefulness of this graph to show what you're asking it to show is insufficient.

     

    I would agree that there are lighter numbers now than when KOTFE launched, but that's how MMO populations ALWAYS go. They'll spike again at the release of the next expansion.

    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Caelrie

    Nonetheless I apologize if I offended you. However, your bias towards KOTFE is just despicable.

    It's not "despicable". It's a playstyle preference. This idea you have that anyone who doesn't think raiders are the core of the game is why I'm arguing with you in the first place.

     

    I don't find your desire to do raids despicable. Why do you find my desire to do everything but raids despicable? That makes no sense to me. I PvP. I do flashpoints. I do solo content. I do heroics and star fortresses solo and in groups. I do guild functions, and I farm solo. And for all this, I'm somehow "anti-MMO" simply because I don't care for operations. That's STUPID.

     

    I entered this thread because the claim was made that ghost servers are BECAUSE Bioware wasn't catering to raiders. I easily proved that wrong, since both revenue and subscription numbers increased DESPITE there being no new raids for years. Game, set match.

     

    But then you had to go and make it personal for reasons I just don't get.

     

    It's ok if you love something I personally don't mind KOTFE story wise but please don't present it as it's the greatest gift mankind has received.

     

    Really? Greatest gift mankind has ever received? I'm thinking you're not an honest debater, given it should be fairly obvious to everyone I never said anything remotely resembling that. In fact, I never even said I was a solo player. You just assumed all of it, pinned it to me and started going off on me like I insulted your mom or something.

     

    My point was simply how KOTFE and SOR produced the same amount of income and yet KOTFE only succeeded because of cutting back on costs no on the merit of how good of an expansion it is.

     

    That was actually not your point at all. I had to correct you and bring that up myself.

    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

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    The question on whether or not neglecting end game MMO content and focusing on solo story has increased the player base would be around January onwards where it's pay $15 for 1 chapter a month ( if your motivation to pay was for new content ).

     

    Yep, we'll see.

     

    Most evidence points towards a declining population ( observed decreasing population in instances in game and torstatus.net stats show a major decline in population since February on all servers ).

    I play on multiple servers, and while I see some have turned into ghost towns, others have expanded. Rather than straight evidence of a population decline, I see a population shift towards several central servers.

     

    As for torstatus, how are you seeing anything more than 60 days? The 60 days graphs are stable on population, but you can't see further back than that.

    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Caelrie

    Please don't post hogwash without substantiating it with FACTS. I'm tired of Solo players thinking they are the second of coming of christ that saved this game. Please take your pompous attitude and shove it where the sun don't shine. The game is doing great no doubt about that and BW will continue to steer that course but lets see how long this model can retain subs over the course of the next 2 years. Not to mention that I'd be willing to bet that the Cartel Market outshines solo player revenue by milestones. If this is the most profitable avenue though then BW should continue the status quo, if not it's best to start making changes before season 2.

     

    Not a single thing you quoted (and certainly not your smuggy attitude either) contradicts the subscriber numbers claim. And I especially love how you cut the part of his analysis that admits that a cheaper expansion resulted in higher profits, despite actual revenue staying the same. That's what we call 'intellectual dishonesty'.

     

    You're playing semantic games here to try to make your point, and that's not gonna work.

    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

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    Ah and now you make the mistake of relying on the superdata numbers which are entirely flawed since they don't even come close to covering all data for all MMOs.

     

    Not all publishers give them all their data on sub numbers etc. so they can only tell you where SWToR ranks against those that do.

     

    So your argument is that you know exactly how SWTOR is doing, despite that no available data counts as accurate.

     

    Are you psychic? Do you have a hotline? What are tomorrow's lotto numbers?

    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Caelrie

    Either way, your CONSTANT tripe on this subject matter is both uninformed, and has actually gotten boring.

     

    I think you have me confused with someone else, given that I post maybe twice a week.

     

    Really? Where was this post I must have missed it, good news then? Yay if so.

     

    Eric Musco hasn't posted to the forums in almost 3 weeks.

    Why are certain servers so inactive in the first place?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Caelrie

    So tired of people saying this, either show something that displays a net increase in population, or keep you anti OPs bs to yourself...

     

    Have you somehow missed the last 3 quarterly reports from EA? I mean, the info has been presented to you, but apparently you just refuse to look at it.

     

    Bioware flat-out stated that operations are not cost-effective. They cost the most of any content to make by orders of magnitude, and they're only played by a single-digit percentage of the players.

    Becoming Mandalorian

    in Combat Styles

    Posted

    With an insta-60? No. WIthout yes, and you do get the option for special dialogue (playing the new chapter on my merc was honestly a lot of fun.

     

     

    I've been wondering... Why does the BH ask Shae what happened to her predecessor? Isn't that YOU?

     

    Credits, sales, inflation

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You aren't buying this from NPCs though - you're buying from GTN which leaves the credits in circulation. The post you quoted meant that there are not enough credit sinks which is true but imho that's intentional and honestly i find it quite enjoyable that way - i don't need the game to make me grind credits.

     

    That's why good credit sinks are voluntary, like the stronghold unlocks. There need to be more things like that. Perhaps open flagships up to players instead of only guilds. Put in new sets of armor shells that cost lots of credits. There are lots of ways to make players give credits to NPCs and still have it be completely optional.

    Credits, sales, inflation

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    There aren't enough things to spend money on in the game (that doesn't just go to other players), so the amount of credits in circulation just keeps climbing and climbing.

     

    It'll never get better unless BW adds things worth buying from NPCs.

    Equivalent marauder specs?

    in Sentinel / Marauder

    Posted

    So I've started a sentinel, and it's pretty fun. But I'm finding it really hard to take advantage of much of what I read here because everything is in Marauder. Usually I would just google, but since 4.0 I just can't find the answer to this question...

     

    The sentinel specs in the window from top to bottom are:

     

    Watchman

    Combat

    Concentration.

     

    What are the equivalent Marauder specs, in order?

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