I think it is time to really do something about the que times and open up cross server queing.Since the PVP Arenas and now Galactic Starfighter the que times for Flashpoints and Op's using group finder has returned to long wait times I haven't seen since before the server mergers happened.And if your a DPS queing it is even worse sometimes taking over 30 minutes to get a pop.

I honestly cant stand the Bounty Weeks and it seems that is all we are getting for events lately.The time it takes to do the bounties vs the rewards are a waste of time in my opinion.When are you going to bring back the Gree event.A lot of people need another event to earn enough to get the sphere speeder.And at least the Gree events are fun and filled with pvp stuff.

LKaras: What will you be doing to keep guilds and server communities together once server transfer is implemented? Joveth Gonzalez (Online Community Manager): Once server transfers are implemented, we will re-evaluate our server group forums and make any changes that are necessary. We also have Community Coordinator Eric Musco as the liaison to guilds and he has a lot of good ideas on how to work with them. Finally, we’re going to begin to highlight server community events on the Community Blog section of our site to make sure that they get proper attention. Rest assured that guilds and server communities are part of our overall focus within the community team. Are you kidding me,seriously? I honestly can not believe how the question was dodged and how little Bioware is showing it cares about guilds with this planned player transfer mess.I'll tell you what's going to happen.When player transfers are allowed people are gonna quit guilds and just transfer to more populated servers and either start new guilds or join a guild there.This will leave many guilds left sitting on dead servers to die out. This whole mess is a result of not wanting to do server mergers,which everyone is begging for,instead trying to tell us how player transfers will solve all our problems. Unless guilds/ldrs are allowed to transfer first then have their members follow them to a set server there is no way to prevent ripping guilds apart when this happens.Guilds are not being given time to prepare.I have people everyday asking me what server we transferring to,is the guild starting over,who is going to wuit the game when this happens. This patch will go down as the "Guild Killer" patch in a lot of peoples mind.In my years of gaming and MMO's this is the worst thought out and planned transfer of chars I have ever seen. The proper thing would have been to merge servers and repopulate.Then allow player transfers.At least then people would be transferring to play with friends (as is claimed the intention of the transfers) and not because their looking to transfer to a better populated server and just abandon their guild in the process. I do not know why they wont merge servers and wont even address the issue.All we hear is how they listen to the community.I have been reading tons of posts about needing server mergers,I play on a dead server myself and it sucks,I've been reading negative stories on websites on how they wont address the real problem.Many people think it is because their hands are tied by EA and that server mergers would be seen as bad press and not good for investor confidence.Well I say letting the problem go so long has done more damage then could have been anticipated.Subscriber counts are dropping and this next patch is going to lose more people if the server problems are not addressed before allowing player transfers. For many people the fun is playing in a guild with people you have fun with and see how this patch is going to wipe out most guilds is going to be the last straw for a lot of people.

I honestly don't care about anything in the upcoming patch until they fix the biggest problem facing the game.Low server populations. Right now I am on a dead server.Can't get warzones to que.Can't even get a person to do Heroic 2 dailies with.The GTN is dead with nothing to buy or sell cause there is no people.End game missions are almost impossible trying to find a group big enough to attempt them. With player transfers coming in this patch it should be called "The Guild Killer Patch" and nothing else. Players are gonna transfer not to play with friends but because they want to play on populated servers which is going to destroy and wipe out a lot of guilds on dead servers.As a guild leader this really pisses me off. -Spending 600k to start a guild bank will be gone. -Started promoting my guild back in May 2011 and are at 150 members now which will be wiped out. -All the members I have spoken to in my guild all say their pissed off cause they know the only way the game will be fun is to transfer to populated servers and this will kill our guild. -With no info in advance as how player transfers will work,such as restricted to certain servers we can't even attempt to prepare by starting a new guild on a different server that we would have everyone transfer to to stay together. Again the only solution to all this mess is just simply do server mergers before this patch hits and get populated servers.At least then if players transfer it will be for the right reasons fo being with friends and not the wrong reasons of looking for populated servers. And no this player transfers is not going to solve anything.If 20 players transfer to lets say server "A" while at the same time 20 players on Server "A" decided to transfer to server "B" then how does that solve a population problem?All it does is create a floating server population.With the exception of Fatman server which will certainly be over run and full as it is the only heavy trafficked server in the USA anymore. Bioware created this mess.Allowing player transfers after the legacy patch first cause some servers to thin out as people knew in advance where to go and created alts on a server to then let all their chars transfer there.And also with each new region the game has expanded players have been allowed to transfer to servers near their region and off US servers.All this time while servers have been thinning in population nothing was done.PVP players have left in masses as que times went from minutes to hours,literally.The past few days it's been like 1-2 warzone ques in a 4 hr period.Then it trickled into Raids as people could no longer form big enough groups to do raids so some of the PVE players have left. All this time the community has been begging for server mergers and it has been ignored only to be offered up player transfers with the upcoming patch without addressing the population problems first. I love this game,play it all the time but a lot of what I liked has been taken away from me due to server population problems.And with this upcoming patch this will be the first MMO I have played that can only be described as a "GUILD KILLER" and not caring about guilds at all. I am tired of hearing how Bioware listens to community feedback when for months people have been begging for server mergers to fix population problems all we get is player transfers and a legacy system which no one I know even cares about.Who wants to spend over a million creds anyhow to use a legacy feature that can only be used in a limited fashion anyhow? We need someone to take over development here that understands that a community can be wiped out if their begging for help and all that is heard is silence.I think it would be easier to expect less if this was a free to play game but when you paying for a game expectations are high and when you can no longer pvp or pve with groups then doing dailies everyday alone become really old pretty fast. I am waiting till patch comes out to see what happens.If our guild gets wiped out because of player transfers and the population issues not fixed then I will be quitting and not bothering to voice my opinion any longer.But for now I am a paying subscriber and not a very happy one and feel I must share my opinions.

Are you seriously going to tell me no one asked anything about server mergers before the player transfers end up tearing guilds apart as people transfer not to play with friends but just because they want to be on populated servers or were those questions not answered and left out of the posted Q&A stuff.

Well gaming websites are starting to voice their opinions with poor reviews of biowares handling of the populations problems and not addressing the issue. http://www.gameseyeview.com/2012/05/09/whats-wrong-with-star-wars-the-old-republic-can-bioware-fix-it/

I have begun writing to Gameinformer and PCgamer in hopes they can get Bioware to respond and answer the communities questions about server populations and while it's being ignored.Maybe since the countless upset people posting on this website and the people cancelling subscriptions still isn't enough to get some answers then getting contacted by a magazine which could result in bad press will be what is needed to get some answers and the problems addressed.

Ok you know for many of us we like the game,we just want to have fun playing it again.For everyone playing this game is a different experience and fun in different ways.But the problem with server populations is getting worse.I don't care how many posts you think are repeated or nonsense,unless your playing on Fatman server then you know why people are complaining.For those who like PVP it shouldn't take 2+hrs to get a que cause of a dead server.For those who are leveling alts there arn't even enough people on the lower level planets anymore to do the Heroics.If your lucky enough to be in a decent size guild you can still do ops but if not,good luck trying to get a large enough group to say kill a world boss or a do a mission. You have a right to post your criticism as does everyone else here so don't try and preach to people about their responses especially when they are legit.If you don't see the server population problems then you must not be playing the game or are lucky enough to be on a busy server. And don't tell people to stop playing if their not happy,if that is your choice then fine then go elsewhere.But don't sit here judging other peoples replies when they have a right to be pissed at this point.

Very upset about this.All this hype about Player Transfers.If they would just do server mergers now and repopulate servers most people wouldn't want to transfer from a server. This is going to tear guilds apart as player leave guilds and go to be on more active servers.Nothing has been said about allowing entire guilds to transfer, just players.So whats happens to guild leaders who spent tons of credits to start guild banks and stuff.......we are left with the shaft and guilds with no one in them. DO SERVER MERGERS FIRST BEFORE ALLOWING PLAYER TRANSFERS OR EVEN MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE PISSED OFF AND QUIT THIS GAME. Allowing player transfers before addressing the population problems on most servers is going to tear guilds apart and destroy the guilds.If that happens I will be quitting this game. I would like to point out that probably a small percentage of players would want to transfer just because they want to play with friends.The majority of players now will only be transferring in search of better populated servers which is Biowares fault in the first place.This is not the right circumstances to allow player transfers. If you noticed the server populations dropped on a few occasions, -After Legacy update which allowed some people to transfer if they wanted to get their chars on the same server.(This was the first mistake since many people knew it was coming they created characters on Fatman server and then transferred all their chars there after the update which killed many other servers.) -After expansion into new countries which allowed many people who were playing on US servers since launch to transfer to servers in their regions.(This I could understand since many people want the best connection and servers where they live.) That being said Bioware continued to let the US servers populations dwindle without addressing the problem.Now if player transfers are allowed before server mergers it is going to create a huge mess.Guilds will be destroyed as people leave to find better populated servers.And what happens if a bunch of epople all transfer to one server while at the same time people on that server leave,how does that fix a server population problem.If 20 people leave one server while 20 people join it then it solves or fixes nothing for that server. The thing that makes sense to first fix the big problem which would be to do some server mergers now and make the players happy.Then if player transfers come people will only be transferring for the right reasons not just because their playing on a dead server.

That players ratings are solely going to be based on Win/Loss but with the other stats getting tracked.What about the person who gets disconnected during a match,not because they left but because they lost connection? What about the medals in game program.Currently players are displayed in order when a match ends by the number of medals they achieve.To me it was good cause it gave people reasons to perform well overall.

Like the LOTR online has a site where you can view a players progress like what quests they've completed etc....we could use something like that for TOR.I know like Flashpoints are repeatable but it would be nice to have a way to keep track of what a person has done as we get deeper into the game it is harder to remember everything.

With only early access underway many servers are already full with wait times to get on.What is going to happen come launch time?