Daeborn Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Love how you guys are making excuses for the bombing population even though it's been in steady decline ever since it launched. Population isn't bombing. Why not try and exaggerate more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tumpai Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 but the game just released but the game is only 2 weeks old but the holidays are over but it's a weekday but the game is not even 1yr old wt..my game went f2p? isnt your fee month supossed to be over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashgan Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Compared to previous weekend population on my server dropped by 20% (numbers in imperial fleet) - which is ok considering quality of the end-game content (5fps on ilum on lowest settings on 1 year old computer). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLauncher Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm still waiting to hear from all these people who were so sure I was making my situation up. I have a delicious serving of crow for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discosoc Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I personally have a couple ideas why I think population levels have dropped since launch. [removed] 2) Speaking of WoW... I think quite a few players that came over to try the game have since went back to their lvl 85's with their elite pvp/raid gear. I really believe that this is a big part of the reason. A lot of players have invested so much time and money on WoW over the years, that they just can't cut the cord yet. [removed] A lot of WoW players (pretty much all the ones I know) want to play something else. We're tired of WoW because we've been playing it for 6 or 7 years. The gameplay is still fun, just long in the tooth. Bioware has a pretty great chance to bring people over, they just need to work on population balance and totals, as well as basic quality of life things (like addon support and combat logs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidasaind Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 As many have said: The game was released during the holidays in order to spike sales. It was a new MMO when many people had plenty of days off and/or school was out. They just released a patch that frustrated a lot of players. The free month just ran out and a lot of people either quit or are waiting for something before re-upping. This is normal in MMOs. This is not 2003 or earlier. There are plenty of good MMOs available today. If players are not happy, they are not willing to wait a year, 6 months, or even 3 months. They will go back to their old game. I came very close to quitting after the mess on patch day too. I canceled (was going to do 3 month sub) but decided that I wanted to play with my guild (they were going at least 1 more month) and there was nothing interesting until GW2 unless I wanted to get some friends to fire up our old Minecraft server again, go back to Rift (no, thank you), or play through Skyrim again. I remember shortly after FFXI and Shadowbane coming out... people would say "you cannot judge an MMO by how it plays in the first few months. Give it time". That all changed when WoW exploded. Now, players have a stable and high budget game with plenty of content that they can go back to any time an MMO does not meet expectations. MMO developers only seem to have 1, MAYBE 2 months now to get their product to be in great shape. Players use to give them months, sometimes even a year. Those days are over. Maybe next time EA will give Bioware more time to develop and test. Or maybe I am wrong and players will be a bit more patient. I still think you need to wait 3 months before it is time to even think of judging the long term potential on an MMO. But I am sure it has been a rough week over at Bioware. Fun game. Just not sure it has the long-term potential I was hoping for as a Bioware and Star Wars fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emeraldhill Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Hey Bioware, is it possible that you could merge some of the lighter US East servers together? There's just way too many and am currently stuck on a server that is hard to find groups on unless you're on during the 1-2 hour peak time. I appreciate you having the foresight to have enough servers for the initial rush but I think you went overboard when it came to US East! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mashy Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 My server has actually had an increase in numbers. At first I thought it was just me but it is growing and thriving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckpetrone Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 24 people on Corella(47-49) Planet, I mean really it's sat and i am sitting and spamming LFM for about a hour or two, I had people in general LOL @ me wondering when i was going to give up. I found it funny for a while myself because no one was being mean about it. Most people were making fun of my determination to find a group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGreasy Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Fix this please, and i must admit they are very quick to move all posts similar to this. Most do not make it out of page 2 before they lock thread and move it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Projester Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 24 people on Corella(47-49) Planet, I mean really it's sat and i am sitting and spamming LFM for about a hour or two, I had people in general LOL @ me wondering when i was going to give up. I found it funny for a while myself because no one was being mean about it. Most people were making fun of my determination to find a group. This is exactly what I've been telling people though every time these threads come up. So of the 24 of you on Corellia, none of you were willing to group up? That's exactly what it sounds like. If that's the case, don't be mad at anybody but the players on your server for playing a MMO and being anti-social Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saerith Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm on Juyo, and Republic Fleet has dropped from ~250 to ~175 during peak times. The drop's been noticeable but not alarming considering the end of the holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tygranir Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm on Juyo, and Republic Fleet has dropped from ~250 to ~175 during peak times. The drop's been noticeable but not alarming considering the end of the holidays. Juyo also has a bad smell. You must take that into account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discosoc Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 This is exactly what I've been telling people though every time these threads come up. So of the 24 of you on Corellia, none of you were willing to group up? That's exactly what it sounds like. If that's the case, don't be mad at anybody but the players on your server for playing a MMO and being anti-social eh, 24 people on a planet isn't that many. they are all probably on different parts of their quests, and not many people want to run a HEROIC that they've already finished. with the sheer number of HEROICS on most planets, it's not likely 24 will be enough to get one rolling without luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyIommi Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Still get 1 minute ques on pvp. Naddist rebels is standard/heavy. Move on trolls, these aren't the droids your looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMac Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 OP, relax, game pop is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Projester Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 eh, 24 people on a planet isn't that many. they are all probably on different parts of their quests, and not many people want to run a HEROIC that they've already finished. with the sheer number of HEROICS on most planets, it's not likely 24 will be enough to get one rolling without luck. Aren't HEROICS repeatable? Aren't HEROIC 4's doable with 3 people and a companion. Aren't HEROIC 2's doable with two people and two companions, or sometimes even one person and their companion? The chances of all 23 other people having done whatever the quest was is a longshot. Most of the time people either won't group up like in this example, or there isn't enough spots for all the people who respond to lfg calls. Don't stick up for anti-social mmo players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey_with_a_K Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 It's called SCHOOL... You negative Nancy you. Stop trying to want to see this game burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesira Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 (edited) Populations are continuing to grow, the only problem you're seeing is faction imbalances which are more noticeable on some specific servers, than others. I've been watching the server list and I've seen more typically "standard" servers go "heavy" each week. There's always gonna be a drop off when the first month hits in these games, but many analysts believe up to 95% of the playerbase stayed. There's no other "real" option other than the really old fashioned MMO's we've been playing, SW:TOR offers a more exciting game, albeit some of the gaming experience itself has its bugs; those are being fixed at a pretty fast rate and people see this so there's really been no point in leaving. It would appear, however that a bunch of the trolls have left! Edited January 22, 2012 by Jesira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
origional Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 You mean player counts are down after everyone has to be back at work now that the holidays are over? Inconceivable! Its almost the end of january - holidays were over weeks ago. So no, he doesnt mean that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mid_knight Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Its almost the end of january - holidays were over weeks ago. So no, he doesnt mean that. The post you so brilliantly quoted was from January 5...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlacke Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 OP, relax, game pop is fine. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areto Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I think part of it is illusionary , On my server there are still heaps and heaps of people in the lower level planets but up in hoth and so on, it's lucky if their are 8 -10 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The post you so brilliantly quoted was from January 5...... owned ... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waypoc Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 This. Not this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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