TheToony Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 You're surprised? This game has more horrible design choices and issues then Time magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTornPanda Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Prefacing this entire thread by saying that short of BioWare making a statement, literally no one in this thread will have any valid insight into this question. Everyone will claim to know, however. The thread should have stopped right here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlejedigavin Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 People are getting bored with it already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMESUN Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 you haven't heard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sainnt Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 What are you basing your idea's that the server populations have dropped off? Just because queue times are down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iluran Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Not this sub. Have gone back to work Will continue to sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restepor Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 you are also experiencing the launch crew drop off. Just about every MMO has a considerable launch then the nay sayers leave. This is pretty standard, and the real community will be apparent over the next month or so. It hasn't been the 30 days yet. It's just because the holidays are over, at the end of the month then that's going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainmakerNL Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Holidays are over you stupid idiot, no wonder servers aren't filled to max outside of prime times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicycookie Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Took time off to play SWTOR... Its Tuesday first day back at work from a long holiday week. So yeah a lot of people went back to work... some people quit but then again they could still play, not like their sub has run out yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imtrick Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) I am just trying to make a valid observation, not trying to troll btw. I'm not sure what's "valid" about it, but people are off vacation this week, which is going to lower populations during off-peak hours. That's why I'm not there, and neither are all the people I usually play with -- we all have jobs. It should be pretty obvious that the number of online users would go down. Edited January 3, 2012 by imtrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qoojo Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 It's the start of the work week after the holidays. Geez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malphas Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm not sure what's "valid" about it, but people are off vacation this week, which is going to lower populations during off-peak hours. That's why I'm not there, and neither are all the people I usually play with -- we all have jobs. It should be pretty obvious that the number of online users would go down. Haven't you noticed that everytime someone feels like they need to clarify that they are "not trying to troll", they are in fact trying to troll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thradar Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Uhhh, holidays are over brah. Us real peeps had to go back to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sovarus Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I for one was at work all day and didn't get on till around 6.30pm GMT I was online for around 3 hours grouping crafting and grinding Were doing our best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noahthered Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Loads of people are back at work. Only teachers tend not to have gone back yet. Nope, we're back too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connact Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Not sure about europe, but here in the states we are headed back to school after the holidays. hope this helps (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameirus Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Prefacing this entire thread by saying that short of BioWare making a statement, literally no one in this thread will have any valid insight into this question. Everyone will claim to know, however. true. Its undeniable that there are less people on at one time, just look at server capacities, they are well down. However, is this due to people jsut leaving, or the end of the xmas holidays, or just the natural reduction in timeplayed now the "ooooh shiny" new factor has lessened? no one knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmaura Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 well my server keeps getting more and more on it. from 50 in a zone to 75 -120 and 200+ today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RolyartNala Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Loads of people are back at work. Only teachers tend not to have gone back yet.This. Half a second of thought would allow a rational person to arrive at this conclusion before posting a useless thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroseby Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Not this sub. Or this one nor my wifes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfriar Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 This game may have had record breaking sales but those are hype sales and the free month at play. When the dust settles in 7 days dont be suprised if you see this game with all servers sitting at standard pops or less. Well, yes and no. It had a huge launch because of all the pre-orders. Something that people really didn't do in the early MMO-launch days, like when WoW came out. But it's already having a huge sales drop off. Sales peaked at 10th (all video games) during the intial release (including pre-orders). It dropped to 38th (all video games) last week. The other 9 positions in the Top-10 didn't change. I expect it will be out of the Top-40 next week. To put it in perspective: Sims 3 was 39th. It came out June, 2009. Skyrim was at 7th. It's been out for two months and is still selling strong and, in fact, sold stronger for the week ending 12/31 than SWTOR. OTOH, it's the only MMO on the list. So there's that. But that precipitous drop is not a good sign. WoW flew off the shelves for years and had 6.5 million active subscriptions its first year. Whereas Warhammer Online shot up to 800K in its first month, only to drop to 300K within two as people became rapidly disenchanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceagent Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) I noticed over the last few days, at this hour of the day/morning, that most EU servers are full or very heavy, right now most servers are light/standard. And last night the US servers, only a few were Heavy to Very heavy, with a one or two full. I have been keeping a close eye on the server population and maybe I'm wrong but are people already quitting? The only server that is full right now is the Swiftsure. Of course, BW couldve greatly increased the cap to every server, so i could be wrong. I am just trying to make a valid observation, not trying to troll btw. Yep your right. Me and 5 mates bought swtor played flat out for 2 weeks, Worst mmo I have played. I played rift for 2months. Even that was bad. Me or my mates will not be subscribing swtor. Edited January 5, 2012 by spaceagent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutharex Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 So people are basing this on what? An UK ONLY chart that doesn't even take in account Digital Sales? Wow, just wow... the trolling is getting weaker and weaker, that's a good sign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Bee Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I noticed over the last few days, at this hour of the day/morning, that most EU servers are full or very heavy, right now most servers are light/standard. And last night the US servers, only a few were Heavy to Very heavy, with a one or two full. I have been keeping a close eye on the server population and maybe I'm wrong but are people already quitting? The only server that is full right now is the Swiftsure. Of course, BW couldve greatly increased the cap to every server, so i could be wrong. I am just trying to make a valid observation, not trying to troll btw. So how exactly are you keeping an eye on populations? Where do you see the actual number of players that are on one server? Is it impossible that those very crude server load indicator's have been tweaked during these first 3 weeks to better reflect the actual server state? Just some random thoughts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProsaicProse Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Um.. I thought they were slowly raising the player cap on servers? If that got raised, you'd see the server "load" go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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