If you think it's quiet now, just wait till May 15th.

They have to do something more than 1.2. Cross-server FP tool *might* be enough, but unlikely. How about something like this: free game time from May 1 to July 1? Radical move, but big ideas are needed to counter big threats. And this would have the benefit of helping players avoid the temptation that could suck them away forever. I'm glad I'm not the one responsible for coming up with ideas because neither of the above would keep my wife and I. But I'm going to keep an open mind for the next couple of weeks to see how they respond to their first major threat.

Well, my wife and I have geared 85's and left after Cata, but we're not crazy about MoP and we were REALLY looking forward to SWTOR. I'm not sure what happened, it just wasn't as revolutionary an MMO as I had expected. Nice storylines and cinematiics, but now that we're doing dailies and HM's, we are spending more time with the spacebar than ever before.

Oh, and I should have added that I spent a couple of hours shouting in General for a FP group on my main before rolling on The Fatman. Finally got one, but it was a pain to put together. Met some nice friends, but the truth is, I'd have rather had a cross-server DF tool to put it together instantly. There's really not that much community left to hurt, after all.

I rolled a new toon on The Fatman, just to see what it was like to play on a "FULL" server with a queue time. I was 965 to get in, so I had dinner and came back to find myself at 9. I got in, rolled a Sith Warrior and started in on the Class quest. I was amazed at how many players were running around doing the same thing. On my main server I traveled to Coruscant to trade in my legacy gear and it was empty, empty, empty. Even the Black Hole and Fleet were empty. I remember at launch when I thought that 250 people running around Coruscant was low, and now there are less than 50 in Fleet. I'm not going to try and speculate why all the diminishing populations, and I'm not going to wait around for the server merges, either. The only question I have to decide now is, do I take the one year WoW sub and get the free Diablo3 download, or just shell out the $60?

Please tell me that English is not your first language and that you are not a product of the American school system. Please?

There's obviously some variance between the different server populations. But I'm guessing that my experience isn't unique and that more than a few of the servers are experiencing diminishing populations. I'm also guessing that with a cross-server DF tool you'd have a lot more people playing FPs who don't want to play with players they might have to see again, to be perfectly honest. Not because they suck or because they're griefers, but because they want to experience new content without having to deal with the kind of player who responded in this thread that "if you can't rustle up 4 players to do a hard mode then you don't deserve to do a hard mode".

That's the argument against it. But as I travel across the world I see less and less community to kill. I have always agreed that a DF tool has a definite impact on the community, but it's becoming apparent that diminishing subs is having a greater impact. Either that or they're all playing D3 beta (which makes me shudder to think what will happen to the community post May 15). Anyway, I think the argument against a DF tool needs to be reconsidered in light of the thinning population. I went to Coruscant to trade in some legacy rewards expecting to see it bustling with new players or at least new alts. It's a ghosttown. From a dev standpoint, which is better, consolidating servers or adding a DF tool? I don't know, maybe it won't make a difference after 5-15. I'd like to try it and find out before giving up.

I think that settles that. We are not even columni geared yet so we've got some work to do. I doubt we'll be able to pull it off at this stage, and it probably wouldn't be as much fun anyway. Thanks all

My wife and I (Tank-specced Guardian w/ Kira, and Heal-specced Sage w/ Nadia) are proficient with our classes and have duo'd a number of challenging things, but have never done a HM and want to start working on that and our dailies. Are any of the HM FP's duo'able with this set up or is this just fantasy? I can accept any answer and we're happy to start grouping up, but it's just a question so please keep it civil ;-) and on point, thanks!

Just back after a necessary month absence. What's all this talk about low population servers and server mergers, is the community shrinking?

yall?

Nice. Too bad it's only Medium armor, got me all excited there for a minute.

No, my wife and I quested all night and experienced nothing you've described.

I don't generally give much weight to wall-of-text whining (let along re-quote it in full), but this message is so truthy and well stated, it demands the most serious attention. It's reassuring to know that BW will probably read it at some point, and I just hope that they are as brilliant as their game reveals them to be, and that they see the writing on the wall and start moving in the right direction.