Wow. A rational gamer. Kinda like seeing a unicorn....

You don't even stop for once and think, "Am I the one with incorrect expectations? Could this game simply not be the one for me?" They are keeping plenty of customers happy, just not the handful than kvetch on the forums like incessant little parrots.

I have purposely played on 'quiet' MMO servers for the last 16 years. They always exist, and there are always players fighting to shut them down, because they cannot seem to take responsibility for their own happiness. If you want to move and it means you have to re-build - then Boo Hoo, it means you have to play the game some more, get over it. if it feels like work, you are already doing it wrong. IMO. The same circles, round and round - these are arguments players have had for more than a decade. This has nothing do with the technology or the game - this is a pure people problem. Some of us are extroverted and need the crowd of others around to re-assure us we made the right choice. Some of us are introverted and just want a interaction with a only few other players, now and then, or we get anxious. Some of us fluctuate through the spectrum of the introvert/extrovert rainbow. If you don't like the server you are on, it is your responsibility to change that, not EA. If you like a game but won't play it when there are servers that cater to all levels of the introvert/extrovert rainbow, then I don't want to play games with you anyway, TBH.

You really believe your own, made-up numbers don't you? Your mind is so closed to the possibility something other than the death of the product is occuring because of your myopic viewpoint. You apparently cannot conceive that other play the game for different reasons and still support the game, seemingly _more_ than the 'elite players'. PvP/Elite Raiders just cannot conceive that MMOs are not, in fact, dependent upon their good graces or even having such features in an MMO for it to be successful. I have played many that are/were plenty successful with little to no support for these playstyles. All of your information, much of it I realize in your mind was 'researched', is, as has been pointed out to you, anecdotal at best. That is just how information and facts work. You might have some facts, but they are anecdotal in nature because of the methods involved. Only EA has the real statistics on the usage of the game, period. No matter how much you love to ignore that, they know more than you do. Now, while the PvP/Elite Raider aspect of the game _may_ be dwindling, as your 'evidence' and the anecdotal evidence of others seems to indicate, that does not, in anyway, automatically mean the game as a business is dead. It just means the game changed and you cannot or will not accept what it has become. If you _really_ think you know _so much more_ about running a financially successful game, then perhaps you should be sending EA your resume. All financial information we have at this time points to the game doing just fine - just not what You want to to be doing. You appear to still be young enough to know everything, but that too will change, or you will lead a very lonely life.

To quote a long forgotten user on the forums of a dead MMO: "There was less uproar when they changed health care providers at my huge, publicly traded company." Some of you really don't have much else in life to do than kvetch about videos games. Wish I had that kind of time, all the time and still afford to pay my mortgage. So your preferred method of entertainment has/is changing...learn to live with change or get mauled by life. SWTOR is just entertainment, nothing more and it will not last forever - enjoy it while you can.

Or that the dynamic of the player base has shifted to more non fleet oriented players.

Then, /flips hair...

Is it so difficult for some of you to grasp that you have outgrown what this game has to offer? Nothing lasts forever. No MMO or any video game can fill the void in your life forever, nor is it intended to do so. If you are done with this game, move on to another and please stop yelling at the rest of us, and the developers, that like the game. How is it so difficult for some of you to realize it's just time for you to move on; there is simply no video game in which you can live forever and avoid the RL...yet. If you have 'done it all', then move on to the next thing that makes you happy and stop trying to make the rest of us as unhappy as you are! Just GO and let the rest of us enjoy the game.

And you guys wonder why they don't give out more information. Really, raging gamers with all their problem and puzzle solving abilities still have no clue about how to interact with other people. It makes me wonder why anyone would even try to make a game for such rude bags of mostly water.

They are trapped by their brain chemistry, don't be too harsh. But, yeah, I am laughing about it as well - a ton of gamer rage from having too much testosterone and not enough patience - as if 2 weeks is any real length of time unless you cannot yet drive a car I guess. Oh wait - I guess I am laughing at you, not with you. So, you think fact that no one said anything about a fix, that they were possible either not informed of or told not to mention, means they failed. Yeah, I am laughing at you.

Thank you for posting this, even though I hate that you have to placate the minority of loud, raging gamers that do not truly represent your player-base, so that they do not cause PR nightmares for the game for no good reason. Rabid fans are the bane of any good thing and they are blind to that fact. As you can see, forum posters already in this thread are clueless as to how these things work, much less the ability to converse in reasonable discourse, so I always applaud you guys for taking the time to post, knowing you will get so much unfiltered gamer rage-hate. Please keep on working hard to make a great game; there are thousands of us enjoying it, regardless of the hate and ignorance tossed around the Internet about SWOTOR.

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Then vote with your wallet. That is your recourse. As for the rest of your response, do you _really_ want to lay down the 'revolution' thing over MMO code? Really? We are all going to rise up and tell those MMO developers that we will be heard and they will clean that code right up? Really? That we won't accept medicrity, blah blah blah.. This is not a country - it's video game corporations. Have you looked at the state of most large code bases that actually run things, like the money that tracks you credit card bills? It sucks. And the code in these video games is generally more complex. Guess what? It has bugs too. The whole "We are not going to stand for this! We will rise up!" over a video game is laughable at best.

I have no religion toward PvE or PvP. 2 weeks is nothing. Period. Unless you still think turning 21 is a big deal I guess. If people get angered and frustrated enough over a bug in an MMO to not play it, they need to not play MMOs. I am tired of communities online forcing this level of baby-care for these little immature demanding gamer jerks. There is no news. Grow up and learn to live in the real world.

Sure, WoW might get patched faster if the ROI was there. In general, they have far more resources that could be re-tasked as well though. Expecting the SWTOR studio and the WoW studio to react in the same way just shows how uninformed most people are as to how companies work.