What are you trying to prove here? I have checked bioware's official server status page now and again and the most I ever seen was 4 heavy and all the rest light or standard. The fact is there does need to be server merges, because even during early access finding a group for heroics was a pain, if not impossible at times. I never would have done any of them without guildies helping. The point of a mmo is to play with other people, and if a server is dead or extremely light on pop you CAN'T play with other people and finish up heroics or FP. And I am not going to be paying 15 bucks a month for a single player game.

i feel for you OP. I am a juggernaut and whenever I was on Ilum and a commando would be around I would absolutely dread it. Melee classes like in most mmo's suck compared to DPS. A commando can run around and STILL SHOOT THEIR GUN while my jugg has to lope after them in the hopes of being able to catch up to hit them if force leap is on CD. By that time however I am usually dead. Bioware sent me an e-mail asking for my opinions on what I thought about the game. Among many other negatives I listed, I said that sorcerers and commandos needed to be adjusted. Not necessarily nerfed, but tweaked so that they weren't so OP...which they both are. A whole team in huttball made up of only sorcerers has to tell you something about the balance in this game.

You think GW2 is going to die after a month? With World vs World PVP and no sub fee I highly doubt this. I think people have had enough of the grindy mmo's that you have to pay for each month. Tera I have strong feeling is going to wind up in the same boat as TOR because the only thing it has really is the combat system. otherwise, its the same as every other MMO. Its not even doing all the great in its native Korea, that should say something.

This has to be one of the main reasons why I am not playing as much lately. I have done a ton of PVP in this game, and there are times I enjoy it...when not playing huttball. Huttball is THE worst map to see just how bad and out of control the CC is due to the whole map design. When I play civil war or voidstar, I really don't notice the CC as much, but the huttball map is the most frustrating because of all the traps and being knocked off the ramps. I got a feedback e-mail from Bioware about what I think of the game, and I told them my thoughts on the CC situation. Hopefully, MAYBE in the future, they will tone it down. But seeing how well that worked out in Warhammer I doubt it.

Bioware designed the valor system and Ilum so this is their bed as the saying goes. Kill trading I think is wrong, but I honestly don't care because seriously they aren't going to do anything about it as they believe it is legitmate "pvp" so there is no reason to send in a complaint. Once the next big content patch hits no one will be going to Ilum anymore anyway.

If you don't notice the decrease in people then you are dillusional or don't want to admit that the game is already on the decline. There's MANY reasons why this game is already losing players: High rez textures that are advertised by Bioware are not in the game and may never be. Performance issues in WZ's and on Ilum even with people that have very high end rigs. You run the same FP's again and again...HM is almost identical to FP on normal except bosses have enrage timers (no different tactics) Too much frustrating CC which is THE worst in huttball due to the map setup. Imperials outnumber Republic on most servers and this will probably continue to be the case. The numerous bugs...Bioware releases a patch only to break something else or the patch doesn't fix what it said it was suppose to fix to begin with. Too many sorcerers, commandos, and sages. These classes need adjusting badly (noticed I said "adjusting" NOT nerfed). No REAL world PVP. The lack of features. No combat logs, guild banks, three WZ maps, etc. Sure they are adding stuff in March, but it may be too late for that. I don't think I need to continue. With Tera, GW2 and Diablo 3 coming soon, this game is going to see an even bigger dive in subs. GW2 had 1million beta signups alone. I am only playing this game until GW2 comes out, then i'm gone...Guild Master or not.

Commandos are another class that need a serious nerf. I don't know how many times i have seen 2 commandos on Ilum destroy five different classes of players because they keep insta healing themselves and using grav round plus that massive damage fire attack.

I agree with the OP and others here. I am a Champion Jugg trying to get to 60 valor to get my BM gear, but I am already growing tired of the grind, the bugs, and the dead server I am on. I log on, grab my dailies, then half the time I don't even leave the fleet to make it to Ilum because I say "i don't want to do this." and I log off. The only thing keeping me in the game at all is my guild, since i am the GM, but still...as soon as GW2 comes out my sub will be gone from this game. I am tired of grind fest MMO's.

Your frame rate must have been like a 5 year old school presentation with poster board slides...

So here we go with "this game is only 2 months old yadda yadda" instead of "this game is only 1 month old yadda yadda" please...what happens a year from now, is it going to be "this game is only 1 year old yadda yadda"? Game was rushed out to capitalize on Christmas sales and to make up for the 200 mil they had invested in it. The only polished thing that I believe was done right is the class stories, other then that the missing features and the amount of bugs has been atrocious. Long story short, see ya in GW2.

I know I know, there are a ton of threads about Ilum on this forum, but I had to post this because seriously, the performance on Ilum is horrendous. When you have more then 20 people on screen its a slide show, and I feel like my comp is going to blow up. Bioware seriously, this is not our computers that is the problem, your game engine is. I was in an awesome battle with the Republic on Ilum and I had to leave the ops group I was in because I just could not handle the FPS issues. I suppose this is a waste of time in posting this, because I know nothing is going to be done about the performance of your game engine, but I'm not sure how much more I can take where I am paying you money each month and I can't play certain aspects of this game because you can't seem to fix it or you make it worse. Are you going to let this game go the route of Warhammer Online too?

Try to specc in vengeance OP. It has a lot of abilities that you can squeeze out more damage and still give you solid survivability. I am currently 8 points in immortal with all the rest vengeance and I am doing pretty solid in PVP. Sometimes I can even be in the top three in kills and damage done. Give it a whirl and see how it goes.

I would rather rename my char then not be able to do the things I enjoy in the game with a group like...almost EVERYTHING. Merging 1 server to another and doing it gradually over time I think is not a bad idea. They don't have to do it enmasse, just merge a few servers see what happens, then go from there.

LOL your delusion but this is funny nonetheless... Anyway, they DO need to merge servers. There are far too many and more then half are usually standard or light. There was nothing wrong with Bioware adding servers at launch to prevent ques, but now that launch is over, they can tighten up servers to get more pops so people can actually do things at all times of day such as PVP and grouping for heroics and FPs. They will not do this however, because if they begin to merge servers people are going to be crying that the game is dying and blah blah blah. Meanwhile, if they DON'T merge servers the subs will drop because of players unable to get into WZ's or being able to run the harder content.

Ilum is not "fine" OP by ANY means. Riding around a block of ice for sometimes hours on end picking up drops is not "fun", especially on light pop servers like I am on. When there is no opposing faction on Ilum this is boring. Also, performance on Ilum is horrendous, and becomes a slideshow which is ridiculous. I don't see why they can't spread out the drops across that entire portion of the map, because essentially not only are you competing with the opposing faction for those drops, but you also are competing against YOUR OWN faction. It took Bioware forever to fix the valor farming that was rampant on my server, and they also did nothing about the exploit after one of the patches where the imps kept farming the republic for valor gains. I am not holding my breath on Ilum becoming any better any time soon. But it is by no means "fine".