Sorry, but the numbers they released today were bloated. Here's how I can tell. They made it a priority in the past months to launch the game in 38 international countries, in order to bloat the numbers for the investors on May 7th. In desperation, they gave out a free month. I'm guessing the amount of US players with recurring subcriptions is very, very low - a mere fraction of the 1.3 million. It's safe to say a large majority of the players are international or playing a free month. There is no way that servers that had 200 in fleet primetime back in Feb 1st (1.7mil) now having 15 primetime correlates to a 25 percent loss. Fact of the matter is, the game is in very bad shape. Server merges could save the game, but are implausible due to Bioware's haughty and undue pride. Server transfers coming in the summer will leave some servers literally empty - likely only being delayed due to financial reasons by EA (too blinded by greed to fathom the long term money loss) - taking a huge hit on the current population.

EA is legally obligated to release their SWTOR subcription numbers tomorrow. How many subscriptions do you think this game has atm? Keep in mind that they've cleverly bloated the numbers through international launches. I will updated this thread around 2pm PDT tomorrow about the new numbers.

i petition for sorcs to have a one shot button. and a permanent god mode

I'll tell you why. BW is alarmed at the rate of people leaving the game in the US, so they pooling their effort into opening the game internationally, in an attempt to bloat subscription numbers before the next investor's conference. A lot of people seem to forget that EA is a corporation, and money always comes first.

Roll a Jug and you will eternally regret not rolling a Sin.

Agreed, they need to merge servers as a first priority, or they will see people leave in landslides and watch their game burn. No one gives a damn about new legacy content or content at all when you have no one to experience it with.

You're right, I'd rather wipe 100 times a night, playing blindfolded, than to actually clear content. You are saying that is is better to be ignorant to whatever might be hindering you in PvE progression, than to know what is going on and being able to solve it. You must be far along in raid progression.

Well this whole thread is a testament to the fact that bad players hate raid-wide parsers and meters, as they should. That being said, it is important for a raid to be monitoring everything that is happening - who is taking damage from what, what is killing the tanks, who's dps is being crippled due to boss mechanics, etc. Then the raid takes this information to help them improve and find solutions. Only bad players are worried about people using it as a e-peen booster. They are so ridden with fear that they overlook the benefits of add-ons like Recount. Personally, I want to know if someone is doing next to no dps, not only would it explain wipes, but it would let me help improve the player. I detest players who do little DPS and then advocate the lack of DPS meters. They knowingly cripple their whole raid and they don't give a damn, as long as they get carried through the content.

When I'm playing, the last thing I look at is class icon.

Make a 1st party, in-game Recount. Everyone who gives a damn about raiding is already using MOX or some other meter/parser. This is a crucial tool for raids, and the fact of the matter is, only bad players don't want a Recount. Give us a quality of life improvement and just give us a 1st party, in-game, detailed parser like WoW's Recount, instead of forcing us to use 3rd party programs. It makes you look very amateur when you don't allow add-ons and then don't provide us with tools that are so useful for raiding. Don't make the raiding community smaller than it already is, make a Recount.

What is the point of this? These have never helped me in any way (except for loling at the vanguard uterus). They get in the way of raid markers. Any way to disable them? Why exactly are they in the game?

He's probably one of those kids who does normal mode karagga then feels so good about himself that he needs to go on the forums and complain about the content being too easy. I doubt he's even done 8 man nightmare Soa

You're 4/4 Denova Hard Mode?

I haven't seen better world pvp in this game other than what's on Tattooine right now. We have full ops groups fighting over world bosses and the vendors. This is a major step forward for the World PvP devs. We just had huge ops groups fighting over the bosses all day, and it ended with pushing all the way into the enemy towns and slaughtering them. Suggestions: - DOn't remove the special event for a little while longer. - Add more incentive to fight over the world bosses (bm tokens or something?)

You can't leave out the many features that makes WoW so popular, it makes you a lesser competitor. - Arena - RBG - LFG tool (people hardly do flashpoints or heroics anymore, i'm sure the secret statistical data that BW has is telling them that) - Server merges/transfer (no community = no grouping = no endgame = no subscribers) - Dual spec (seriously? how is this not implemented?) - Meters for dps, threat, healing, dmg taken - there are 3rd party ones already, why not make our lives better and make a polished, easier to use 1st party meter?

We need to show BW how bad pop really is on a lot of servers, because their apparently living in a dream world (I doubt they've signed on to a single server since beta). We have to make them swallow their pride and send a message to them that there are only 1 or 2 servers that provide an MMO experience.

ur tank probably forgot to switch to his pve gear

oh god, i see this turning into a meme

Another money-grub by EA/BW. They overhype their patch, get people to resubscribe before the big attractive patch, and then a few hours before the patch decide that it won't be a part of it. I'm willing to bet that they are holding it off to coincide the ranked warzone release with the release of Diablo 3. Deception, false advertising, and shady business tactics at its best here, folks. Someone oughta file a lawsuit.

On every server, each faction will have good players and bad players. You just have to find the good ones and queue with them. If you are as good as you say, they should have no problems with queuing with you.

I play Republic and i win 50 games out of 70. You win 5/70? Interesting, there seems to be a correlation between you being in the game and the game resulting in a loss. Before blaming others, have you ever thought to examine yourself? Stop queueing, I bet your factions win/loss ratio will skyrocket

top 3 for me would be sin, operative, mara

Wrong. We are talking about the PvP dailies u get from the terminals, and he is indeed missing one. You're supposed to have quest for a 3 win, a 30 supply/kill, and a 1 win.

My fleet has gone from 200 primetime to 40 primetime. It starts with the hardcores leaving. They are the major players in the guilds, so guilds crumble and leave for old mmos. More and more guilds realize the lack of endgame content, decide to roll alts, get bored, unsub. Communities are shattered. What's left is casuals and those who earnestly like the game and want to see it succeed (like me), who finally start leaving the game because there is no MMO left. My advice is this: make server mergers/transfer a NUMBER ONE priority, lest you fail to salvage what is left of this game. I really want to see the new Sub numbers right now.

My fleet has gone from 200 primetime to 40 primetime. It starts with the hardcores leaving. They are the major players in the guilds, so guilds crumble and leave for old mmos. More and more guilds realize the lack of endgame content, decide to roll alts, get bored, unsub. Communities are shattered. What's left is casuals and those who earnestly like the game and want to see it succeed (like me), who finally start leaving the game because there is no MMO left. My advice is this: make server mergers/transfer a NUMBER ONE priority, lest you fail to salvage what is left of this game. I really want to see the new Sub numbers right now.