I can see something like Madden being more important from a return on investment point of view. Really, how much can it cost to put out the next year's version? Re-skin some of the players, change the names on the backs of the uniforms, tweak some settings for run speed and crap like that. Charge full new game price and make a billion dollars.

Server Transfers/Merges LFG Tool Removal of the fleets and make the capital cities the hubs Make it so that all the planets (except starting planets as mentioned above, i didn't think about that before) are available to both factions and stop segregating them so much. --- And another thing just occurred to me. If you are going to make a traditional theme park, holy trinity (tank, healer, dps) game, than make a traditional theme park, holy trinity game. People that like this genre want to play that genre. Don't nerf the tanks and the healers to the point they have difficulty simply doing their role. Yeah, it's good to change some thing up and add some twists to the mechanics to keep things interesting, but this is a holy trinity game, let the roles be able to perform their roles.

Well, I have to look at it from two view points. 1. From a gamer point of view, a 1.3 million sub base for a non-WoW MMO is a good number. 2. From a business point of view, any business, regardless of industry type, that lost 25% of its paying customers in one quarter, is in trouble. I think it is a very safe bet to say that there are some unhappy suits over at EA. I expect a shake up or two incoming.

Not unsubscribed but I am really getting close to pulling that trigger. I only have 3. Bugs, the need for more content, lack of advanced tools, etc. are just part of the deal for a young MMO that gets rushed out by the corporate suits and everyone by now should expect that from an EA MMO so I don't include that in my decision. 1. No community. I've played MMOs since 1997 UO and I have never experienced such an anti-social community as this one. It doesn't matter if you merge servers if the majority of players play this like a single player game and actively fight (on the forums) to prevent the inclusion of required group play to access high end content and gear. (BW should let us have all our companions out at once so we can solo flashpoints, for example) 2. Bioware has made it abundantly clear their vision of "end game" is to roll endless alts. (at least that is my perception of what is going on with the direction of the game) 3. Too many time wasters that appear to just be there to waste my time and offer no gameplay element or challenge. All the various loading screens to go through to travel from planet to planet, game play elements that require just standing around and waiting (many datacron hunts for example), to many moments of round tripping for no good reason (the quest giver on the planet tells you to travel to the fleet and the guy on the fleet just tells you to go right back to the planet and nothing else). Time sink for the sake of time sink seems to be a prominent design choice here.

No, I'm not, I'm just calling you out on your BS. Long boring time sinks are crap in any MMO. This one, GW2, Tera, WoW, all of them. You only make your "LOL" comment on the GW2 long boring time sink like GW2 is the only one that has one and ToR is perfection. You're agenda is to troll and to trash another game and pretend that ToR is totally free of the same type of crap you trash the other game for, which it is clearly not. And now when some one points out that Tor has just as much long boring time sink as that other game, you do you're all to minimize that fact.

That's because you got lucky. That was intended as a huge time sink and you know it. You are trying to push an agenda so you won't admit it, but you know it.

Yeah, because waiting around for a blimp for over an hour doing absolutely nothing desperately hoping that the blimp would not de-spawn so you would not have to wait around for another hour doing nothing so you can get a datacron is much, much better.

MMO Player: "For me to enjoy a game, I must hate on and trash every other game in existence" Some of you people need to get your heads right.

To be fair to the Consumerist, the fix was in. There were many game forums that told people that had probably never heard of the site before to go there and vote for EA. (Is that what astroturfed means? I am not familiar with that term). I am a regular on the consumerist and that vote had nothing to do with what that site is all about. Just a bunch of cranky gamers with no sense of real world priorities invaded the consumerist so it doesn't really speak to the real legitimacy of that site at all. Other than I suppose they could have tried to figure out what was a real vote and what was a pissed off gamer and excluded those votes but I don't know if that is even possible.

Well this is not KoTOR 3. It's an MMO. Some of the larger accomplishments have to be group based or why bother at all? Just take the servers down and make it a single player game at that point. Which I honestly believe a good portion of the player base would be ok with, actually.

This is pretty much it in a nutshell. All the LFG tools, server transfers, and server merges won't help if people simply are not interested in grouping. All they do is improve the chances of finding those that do want to do group content.

That was kind of my point. IMO, you have either a cross server LFG with the servers we have or a same server LFG and force every server to have The Fatman levels of population. Otherwise for 50% of the servers as they are now, LFG is useless.

Either cross server LFG or forced server merges that eliminate 50% to 75% of the servers. Either one is an acceptable solution to me.

All of the above and cross server.

That's the thing. A standard sever at 505 people is essentially the same thing as a low server with 495. And on the other side, a standard sever at 1495 people is essentially the same thing as a high server with 1505. Since we don't know the real numbers, standard can mean dead, healthy, or anything in between.

Exactly, everyone is misunderstanding the whole issue. They are not dead, low population servers! They are Storymode Servers!

You really have no idea what you are going on about do you? Yes, I will roll a new character and level him to 50 and get full rakata gear and then I can test the new flashpoint. All in less than a month or so. That's your big "I roll my eyes at you like I am better than you" answer.

What I really like about the site is that they have an RSS feed for the "Latest" section.

This is the 2/8/31 I am using and I think I actually got it from psi overtake too . I am still working on rotations and priorities so I am not sure if I am doing the best I can or not just yet. I think it can be much improved, to tell the truth. For example I am not sure if I should be doing snipe at all and if I should use shatter shot in there somewhere. Basically Laze > Weakening Blast > Corrosive Grenade > Corrosive Dart > Cull > SoS > Snipe > Rifle Shot if needed > Cull then refresh Weakening blast, Corrosive Grenade, and Corrosive Dart as needed. Throw in an orbital strike if I am really doing good on energy http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#400bZbIZGbbkrMGdhR.1

Yep. No point in creating a forum for a lot of empty servers

It's actually closer to 300,000,000 meters per sec, which does convert to around 186,000 miles per second. 1 meter = 0.000621371192 miles 300,000,000 * 0.000621371192 = 186,411 So yeah, you do need a calculator to figure that out after all

Oh, sorry, I thought you meant if they would have the current issue fixed by 6:00 today, not how many patches it would take.

I'm going under. It's the Scotty school of engineering I am counting on. If something is going to take 4 hours, say it will take 8 and when you get it done in 6, you are a hero.

Maybe the fix to enable character deletion worked really, really well

No, 6PM CDT tonight. The 14th was for EU and Australia time zones since that puts them after midnight. parentheses are your friend.