Oh. Well that problem seems to be fixing itself since the playerbase is leaving en masse. Without players the game should be just fine.

I'm going to at least try it to see what different devs can do with the same engine. I have a gut feeling that says Bethesda has that thing running smooth as silk.

I know tonight... excitement walks the Earth.

Slowly?

I'd expect the devs to be too busy playing Diablo 3 tomorrow to do any work on TOR.

But we do have numbers on how many left. 2.4 million sold 1.3 million subscribers = 1.1 million people already said "Thanks, but no thanks." In just 5 months. And with summer and big games coming and free months running out that number is going to snowball a lot, and fast. I just hope you have an alternate income, Jeramie. EA might have to lay you off soon.

Sounds like a well thought out and worthwhile system.

Let me ask you since you just unsubbed, can you detail exactly the questionairre they gave you after unsubbing? Specifically the parts about free to play?

Their tactics so far have been so transparent and sad.

Free trials, multiple free weekends, and a free month already. Also I don't why why you guys are saying hundreds of thousands. 2.4 million people bought the game and 1.1 million have already decided not to spend another penny on it and we're not even 6 months in or into the rought stretch of summer + competitors launching. IMO "over a million" drives the point home better and is more accurate than "hundreds of thousands". Heck "hundreds of thousands" almost sounds like damage control when the reality is "over a million" people have decided to quit..

Bottom line is this game is going free to play. They're already giving questionairres about free to play to people who unsub. So it's just a matter of time now.

Probably. It makes sense considering the big feature in 1.3 is a group finder that is -not cross server-. That way people on dead servers can use it to find people who aren't even there.

And if a guy spends a few minutes playing TOR he also is counted as fully subscribed. It's crazy when you think that TOR during the quarter launched the Asia Pacific realms and STILL managed to LOSE 25% of its total population. That means they lost one account for every new account gained on the Asia Pacific servers and then 400,000 more ON TOP OF THAT. All without having any major new competition like they will now, or having to deal with people leaving during the summer season for vacations and just generally going outside and whatnot. Wow. They definitely haven't hit the low point yet. Next review is going to be abysmal.

It's because KOTOR 2 wasn't made by Bioware. The game needs more Kreia.

First off they already said the transfers won't all be free. Only to specific servers. All others will be paid transfers. Second, transfer where ever you want. It just shuffles people around. It doesn't make more players. The game sold 2.4 million copies, but there's supposedly only 1.3 million accounts, with 400k leaving just in the last quarter. Transfers just move around a dying population, they don't add new population. This game needs more players. Transfers won't help that.

I don't understand how more people aren't rejoicing over this news. This is the best thing to happen to TOR yet.

Don't TORs subscriptions count the Asia Pacific servers?

Again, look at all the posts about how many people are on some of these dead servers and then look at the population of the Fatman (which also seems to be dropping btw) and think how many dead servers it would take to make 1 populated like Fatman. You would have to merge at least 10 light servers just to get 1 more Fatman type heavy one. Even if they went mild and just merged 5 to 1, they'd still wind up with only 25 US servers and about 18 EU servers for example. And those wouldn't even be full, just standard. I think 2 things that need to be taken into consideration are #1 The standard server pops just aren't enough people. It still seems like a dead game when your pop is at standard. #2 Not sure if you guys noticed but people who unsubscribe now are getting sent surveys asking a ton of questions about what if TOR was Free 2 Play. This game is going F2P. So how many servers do they feel will be necessary to accommodate F2P players. So yeah with the inevitable F2P in mind 25 US, ~20 EU, and maybe even bumping Asia up to 5 sounds about right.

Played Guild Wars 2 beta. It was Amazing. Played WoW for a few years. That was and still is great. Played Ultima Online. That went down the toilet when EA bought it. Played TOR... I don't really have anything good to say about it when comparing it to other products.

I could tell you that you're missing something, but I'd be lying. You seem to grasp how it's done perfectly.

I revised it a bit figuring 3 servers of each type. That's still 123 down to 12. But 90% of those 123 and a similar 90% of 91, both according to TORStatus, are light. All these posts have people saying there's like 60 empire and 40 pub (or much less! I'm being generous) on their servers at times. So if that's 100 total people (again being generous) and a heavy server like Fatman is supposedly 2000, then that's 20 light servers to make 1 Fatman, and again that's with generous numbers. Reducing it down to 12 servers sounds pretty much just right. I'm with you though, it makes me lol. But I think we're loling for different reasons.

My heart will go on and on...

OK edited and revised 4 server types (wow Asia only gets 3 of them) so we'll go 3 a piece US = 12 Europe = 12 Asia-Pacific = 3

I missed the flag icons for Germany and France.

I missed the flag icons on TORStatus. I count 91 servers. I'll revise my prediction in the OP then.