Ok, since this is going to be immediately flamed, I'd just like to say up front that I am not threatening to cancel my sub, lol.
I know that the instances nature of the game leads to some of what I am seeing, but I can no longer write it off as "designed, purposeful reduction of on screen players."
There is nobody playing this game on my server. Peak times have 30-70 in the low level planets but once you pass about level 25 there are 5-7 per planet.
I am having an "existential" crisis so to speak. I really, really like this game, but I don't want to be one of the people who skip the next MMO only to find out that theirs is really dead. Now I'm seeing talk of consolidating servers, and I have to admit, with the PvP ques (50 and 1-49) on my server, and the fact that I rarely if ever get a full PVP warzone, it's making me nervous.
If there are really 1.5m players, where are they at?
I play on two servers, but primarily Port Nowhere. (Ironic, yes, funny, no.)
I guess the other thing that frustrates me is that I really expected to not have trouble finding a group in the first 30-60 days. I figured the initial swell of people would last longer than that.
Someone please reassure me that I'm seeing non-standard things on my server or am looking in the wrong places?
Also, please forgive the possible spelling, this came from an apple mobile device with autocorrect, lol.