ABSOLUTELY NOT. sorry but this is yet another cash grab by BW scheme. They have a very real issue and that is server population health. it is more than just surface deep but an issue with how they have little to no design worth keeping people long term. it has to do with unfinished bugged and often left quickly content. There is no reason why they should not merge servers. they have down it several times now and have the means. the just need to do it and stop wasting time and resources on stupid money grab schemes like the newest cartel pack experience change. I DO NOT CARE about cartel packs but do care about sw content worth playing for the story.

they have continued to leave specific data off stock calls with regards to swtor because it is shrinking and probably at an alarming rate for the company earnings. It is however still a yearly money maker for them because it is not a one and done release, it is a constant trickle of cash flow. trust me the way population is currently going the game is not making as much money as they would hope it to. and 10 million subscribers is honestly not something of an achievement. I am sure most **** sites earn that in a months time. not 5 years time.

I mean how does it happen that they are notified of an issue via the forum before the team actually sees it? ugh so tired of the excuses for a bugged experience they keep pushing out live.

I really warms the heart that they think people who plays this game are somehow not happy with the opening a gambling pack experience. As time goes on here towards fall I have less and less hope for this big expansion

This is exactly what they should have been working on. forget the actual fact they cant even get conquest working correctly after all this time, events to work properly all the time, weekly ops from bugging out. THIS IS bw CONTENT how to help increase cartel market sales.

only thing that is being done is you paying 1000cc per character for a transfer. but if BW actually saw the issue and would address it they should merge servers ASAP

legacy is literally another of the many features of this game that have been introduced and immediately forgotten for the most part.

40 minutes killing trash and 5 minutes killing arkan and the rest is all just lame dialogue

it was yet another of the long list of HK monthly reward junk. sorry OP but enough of the HK stuff its getting old at this point.

agreed i believe 100 percent this game is in maintenance mode. all they will be adding is what we got for 4.0. much more cartel market content vs real game content.

You are asking for too much. just swallow the sand they gave you and keep thinking it is water.

its an age old issue that BW yet again just ignores. sadly only thing you can do is complete them and for those that are saying just do it, really? BW at this point can fix their stuff up already. its the little things like this that are just a pain and unacceptable.

I have been saying this since the start of merge your servers entered my mind when population started to collapse. honestly people getting upset about a merge sorta dont get it. its healthy for a game to go through this cycle of population in the sense it always happens with any mmo and in the past other mmo providers have seen it and merged servers. BW just has their heads in the sand and wants its players to keep them there as well.

well to see this post float to the top was well nice. to read through and see the continued discussion of the issue was nice. to see the continued fall on the sword because bw is right discussion was sad but reality as any mmo i have ever played (and its been a few to say the least) there are always fans, me included here, that will say and say and say as much as they can to defend the sinking ship for as long as they can before they themselves just give up or the game closes down with a shadow of a population from once it was. the issue that I started in this thread is just as important now as it was the past couple weeks and months. the game is taking a down swing. the servers are getting lighter and lighter even at peak times for that servers representative coast. the que system which was horribly poor to start with for as long as I could remember just is dead empty now, regardless of the time of day or the server. Even the biggest of servers the juggernaut that people say is the best server of them all is showing signs of weakness as of late, even on peak hours. Yes nay fan boys , i have indeed checked multiple planets and locations to assess the population and no its not scientific fact but it is a good enough assumption given what i saw. The game simply is under populated for what content is available and the event was a sad but last dtich half baked decision to try to bring the game back to life. yes it has brought in new people for sure, i have seen and talked with many but it is not holding their attentions for more than a weeks time at most. Most have just stopped logging in at all and some are questioning if its worth subbing because what they have seen so far is "fun" but "not worth money" The easiest of things BW could do is just suck it up. say they wanted to blah blah blah for what ever reason they see fit to say and merge the servers east and west into two servers. They have merged before not once but twice. they have the means to do it and arent incompetent in this regard (all thought I personally thing they are). Yes names will be issues and that is why the added in the ability to add a space. yes pvp servers will say what but that is long since been killed with the pvp instance (which by the way was another example of a failed attempt to populate servers) Yes they removed population meters from teh server page (yep you guessed it another failed attempt to hide how poorly populated most servers are). Yes guilds are an issue right now but they can and should devote time to work on transfers for guilds linked to a guild leader. So why not merge them? i am sure i will get some very poorly written and lame excuse from the fall on a sword crowd.

A new dev team

I do. the story is slower much much slower to cap 50 or 65. PvP, GSF, FP, heroics all earn better quicker xp. add in the legacy xp bonus on all of those and your xp bonus gear.

OP what it really boils down to is no choice you make really matters. It is just an illusion of choice just like its an illusion that your choice in the story really matters. It doesn't sadly. I say this because any company is going to know that you can not pigeon hole customers like they want you to believe. It just keeps you playing. At the end of the event in the end one companion will show up in your mail vs the other, it is also just as likely they will just mail both to you and you can use both or just the one you feel happiest with. In reality it means nothing because the companion will be exactly and I mean exactly the same as any of your other companions that are in game either through the story or through cartel packs or through in game quests. They are all clones of each other. So really what difference does it make which you may receive for free and which you will not. In fact I guessing soon as it is done they will put both in the cartel market and sell them to people who did not participate in the event or came on after the event is over. Just a guess but probably an accurate guess.

There is honestly little reason to add another 5 levels to the game. ZERO

^^ this is on point and truth that the fans of swtor dont want to hear nor will the devs ever acknowledge i will add "BioWare made a very good point they must finish what they have begun before moving onto another piece in swtor " um they do this all the time actually. WZ, added in and just forgotten with little to no balace but only after months of complaints. GSF perfectly good and only needs balance yet POOF totally forgotten about and moved right into something else with out any thought about actually finishing it. Story -- POOF horribly fractured and not even consistent in the KOTFE story line with so many mistakes. Conquest POOF added in horribly done, attempt to fix and failed and forgotten about. The devs of this game have a fantastic track record of starting things and just dropping them for the next thing. The one true game item they always consistently never forget is the CM which ultimate is what the game is really about to BW and EA. it is pure money earned with no content development needed but a few hours a month.

The response here is right along with BW tech support or for that matter any games CS with a scripted its your probably on your end of things. While it could be flaky internet, the days of that are really well behind us as a whole even if you are in a remotish area. As for the router its possible that it needs a reset but something tells me that the first thing the OP actually did was reboot everything step by step. Yes OP as of late I have had increasing instances of dropped connections with swtor, increased lag spikes and general crap connection with game. It is not hardware, router, isp. it is and no matter what they deny BW swtor client and servers.

Sad to say but there will be no performance increase and probably a degrade upon next "massive expansion" this fall. The simple facts are the engine they used is so polluted with well to start a pile of junk, top that with inept developers prior to the current team and the current team when it comes to the engine, top that with not really carrying enough, top that with only way this game would actually see an increase in performance is if BW, EA or Disney are making a sw mmo that is not based on anything from swtor but learning lessons of what not to do and how poorly you can manage a product. sorry op

Going to call a HUGE BS on this QA session. and even it was real its again just more BS smoke and mirrors. nothing and I mean nothing was said that would not be said by a grroup cornered by QA session just to get out alive.

and here is the underlying thing about it all. some like the story and while it is only my personal belief the vast majority who are players not just a single run and done player but a repeat player thing the story is ok the first time and horrible the next. the issue is that it is horrible the next and basically almost not worth playing because its just that a chore. it is not content that makes you work to earn some progress. yes the story must always guide the content but here BW has totally gone all in and forgot what makes an mmo success, story followed by content that makes you want to progress for a reward. SWTOR as currently stands is both weak in story because honestly running it like 4 times now i can absolutely say the story is the worst that has been added to swtor and the lack of real progression sense content missing has hurt this game a lot. I can only hope that the optimistic looking on such as the OP has for the "largest update" to date for swtor has indeed corrected for these issues and gone back to the core of what star wars is the struggle between the light and the dark side of the force and group based content. real group based content not the pathetic excuse they have placed in game now.

I think the basis of your guess is just off because there is hope in you that they have been working on something that will renew swtor. The sad truth is what you got over the last 6 months or so is exactly what you will get in nov. 9 chapters up front and the rest strung out over the course of 7 months. this will get you to summer 2017 and DvL event season 2. There will be no massive group content as many of us hope for but a short tactical or more eternal championship arena junk. The content will be solo with just an option to group if you wanted to but not required at all.

and most have heads in the sand when it comes to the dev team and swtor