Because that's how WoW did it and BioFail forgot to take that part out when the copypasta'd everything to make their crapass game?

Working as intended.

I'm going to hope that English is not your first, second, or third language.

They're probably just so empty is seems like they're down. Like when your car runs out of gas. You can still sit in it, it just won't go anywhere.

I get a good chuckle from this site every day and the BioFail Defense Force provides it.

Magid.com save us, you're our only hope! God, the wagons must be circled at BioFail HQ. The employees are stealing art off the walls and as many staplers as they can before the building is sold. This game becomes more of a joke every day.

Hey that's an insult to Water World.

The ****** community is a product of a ****** game. Garbage in, garbage out kind of thing.

I think 1.3 million is actually the queue of people leaving this goat ranch of a game. With new games coming out soon, I can't imagine the Tortanic lives through the summer.

Sheer incompetence. BW is so in over their head there's no hope. It's comical in a sad, sad way.

Between TSW and GW2, I can't imagine anyone sticking around on the TORtanic. This game horrible. F2P or completely shut down by 2013.

Holy balls, I came to see if this web domain was for sale yet. Imagine my surprise when I see that the game is still in business! You've got servers with less than 100 people running around on them, it can't last much longer. Oh well, I'll check back in a couple months I guess.

Dumbed-down Fisher Price MMO now getting easier? Details tomorrow. That's one sleep for the TOR fanbois.

But the author sounds so damn desperate you just want to give him a hug by the end of it. I want to send him a poster of the kitten hanging from a tree captioned "Hang In There".

Guys? Guys, where are you going? Hey our game's still cool! Look, this website says it's cool and you all like websites right? Wait, come back!

This game is fun damnit, and not broken at all. WHY ARE YOU NOT HAVING FUN?!

Come on man, you're too well spoken to throw out the random Blizzard reference. I don't know where that came from. But since you brought it up, WoW was a great game. I played the heck out of it and enjoyed every second. Well, mostly. BioWare is missing whatever Blizzard had bottled. How this game has one active subscriber I have no idea. But then some folks out there love the Westboro Baptist Church too so go figure. Maybe at some point a person burns out on MMOs. Or maybe they just start to expect something different. I hadn't played a MMO for several years and was expecting a lot, and got a ticket on the TORtanic instead.

TIP: Mess with the Gamma setting, it might create more contrast and be easier for you to see.

42, thanks for asking. If community is a mainstay of MMOs like you're saying (and I agree with that part) this game is really in trouble. There's no community, hell there's no players anymore. It's such a single player game from level one, you rarely need to group or interact with anyone. I've played a ton of MMOs over the years and this one just boggles my mind. How can I run through almost a whole planet and not see any people? The problem, and reason this will end up in the Walmart discount bin, is the game is soulless. Well, that and bugs in Operations and piss-poor overall design. And monotonous game play. And terrible selection of starting races. And standing around in fleet. And a crafting system where you don't get to actually craft anything. Ugh, now I'm just depressed. I miss good MMOs.

Interesting, a feature not working as intended in TOR? I don't believe you.

Great post OP, spot on. What should surprise me but sadly doesn't, are the kids that come in and refute the fact this game is a hot mess. The lifeboats are packed with players getting the hell out of this game. I guess it should say something about TOR that the only ones enjoying it are the players who somehow still don't have a level 50 and only play 4 hours a week. Sure it's great for you, you don't actually do anything, so what could be wrong? Meanwhile those that enjoy these kinds of games have come and gone, realizing this is literally a sinking ship. BioWare is absolutely clueless. They gave me 30 free days (because that's something a prosperous MMO does) and I used 1 minute of that to uninstall.

Wait, this is a multiplayer game?

It makes sense to BioWare. Who's to argue with the great minds that created SWTOR? :|

And the BioWare Defense Force fiddles while Rome burns. Enjoy the Jersey Shore of MMOs guys.

Yeah, what a smooth launch! Whoo! Hardly any queue times at all. Forward a measly four months. Subscribers have dropped off the face of the earth. For some reason they still run with too many servers. Servers turn into ghost towns. Subscriptions drop further. F2P incoming before 2013. It isn't exactly rocket surgery to figure out the pattern but good old "head in the sand" BioWare somehow remains clueless.