UGLYMRJ Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Was eliminating the fatman Bioware's way of fighting child obesity in America? Sorry, bored at work and forums are quiet today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourTwent Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I enjoyed the rise. If I didn't roll toons on there, I would have unsubbed LONG ago. Made more creds playing the GTN there than the other 2 servers I was on too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UGLYMRJ Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 It's weird to see the server that thrived for the longest gone now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LG_XxLegacyxX Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 It's weird to see the server that thrived for the longest gone now. It's just a server name. All the people are still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DroidDreamer Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Sorry, bored at work and forums are quiet today... Noticed that too of late... I was very surprised by The Fatman becoming an origin server. Look forward to PvPing with peeps from there on Pot5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntersPoint Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 yeah the fatman saved a ton of ppl from unsubbing, was kinda weird to see it gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock_Bramson Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) Fortunately for me, Dreshdae Cantina stayed fairly strong until it was merged with the shadowlands. We had 2 main guilds on each faction that kept the PvP rolling, along with some solid independents. (also some baddies, but hey, it happens) RIP dreshdae, you shall be missed. Edited September 21, 2012 by Sock_Bramson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Philar Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Wait, did you just say that my server got shut down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafy_Bug Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 There was a thread in may/june called 'The rise of Fatman'. People were super excited about the booming population on this server while the rest of us were doing 1 wz /hour. A few of us, including myself, were happy that some could actually play the game but emphasized that The Fatman will die as well. It seems that it took only a few months for this server to have a declining population. When I moved to TOFN, it had 4 instances of over 200 people just on the republic fleet. We had 160+ people at 6 am with instant wz pops all round. They have created this superserver now and the queue for ranked wz is quite sad : yesterday we had 2 ranked wz in 2 hours. In any case, by this time next year, things will be again different and BW will probably take some drastic measures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apaolo Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) The server died when the game didn't meet the needs of many hardcore PvP'ers and they began to disappear. What's left is mostly PvE/RP guilds, with spinkles of PvP'ers scrambling to make their PvP ends meet. Truth. Edited September 21, 2012 by Apaolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asukaa Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 The server died when the game didn't meet the needs of many hardcore PvP'ers. What's left is mostly PvE/RP guilds, with spinkles of PvP'ers scrambling to make their PvP ends meet. Truth. Sprinkles? Getting less than 1 minute que's isn't a sprinkle. It's a deluge. There was more PVP on fatman than PVE. You only noticed a decline in the pop when PVP'ers stopped playing. And the new FAT5 server is even better. The Imps from POT5 are way better than the Imps from Fatman ever since <STS> decided to bail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apaolo Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) Sprinkles? Getting less than 1 minute que's isn't a sprinkle. It's a deluge. There was more PVP on fatman than PVE. You only noticed a decline in the pop when PVP'ers stopped playing. And the new FAT5 server is even better. The Imps from POT5 are way better than the Imps from Fatman ever since <STS> decided to bail. Que'ing up for PvP =/= hardcore PvP'ers (which is what I was referring to); and over the last 2 months, there was much more PvE than PvP, from a guild standpoint. Also, not talking about the new server merge, talking about the old Fatman. Cheers. Edited September 21, 2012 by Apaolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimeStax Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) Yeah, it's very sad for the PvPers because supposedly PvP carried SWTOR since it's launch. PvE content was mastered too easily, gear progression happened too quickly, and new content was very underwhelming. On the other hand SWTOR was and still is one of the better balanced games for PvP, and for the most part people liked it. But now that all the PvPers are fully geared and there is little incentive for them to continue playing other than just for fun, all the hardcore PvPers have stopped logging on and quing up for Rated Warzones. My main character has had full War Hero gear for about 3 months now and with the next patch they're only releasing new weapons. If 1.4 does bring back lots of players it surely won't keep them entertained for very long with the limited PvP progression they have in the works now. Overall I feel like the downfall of this game is mostly due to the fact that people are progressing MUCH faster than BW can release new content, creating huge amounts of time in between when content is finished and when new content comes out. These period are usually extremely boring and cause people to stop logging in for a while. I honestly believe that a healthy MMO starts with supplying hardcore gamers with a healthy amount of content that keeps them around, and gives the casual gamers something to always look forward too whether they ever get there or not. Once the hardcore gamers start leaving, the casual ones eventually do too because the hardcore ones are the guild leaders, ranked warzone group leaders, and pve Op leaders. Without them, the casuals have nothing to look forward too, people quit, and guilds die. TLDR: PVE content needs to be much harder and PvE & PvP gear progression needs to be much slower in order to keep hardcore players raiding Ops and quing for Rated Warzones. Edited September 21, 2012 by DimeStax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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