bloodforge
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Yeah, problem isn't number of subscribers, they have too many game worlds.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT2| In a F2Play galaxy far, far away
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StudioTan
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If by game worlds you mean servers then I agree. They have well over 200 servers, probably about double what they need.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Hopefully server merging is right behind server transfers in their plans. It would help them and the community out a lot.
bloodforge
Member
Servers, yeah. They need to merge a bunch of the ones that never go above "Light" together.
I don't even bother to read any SWTOR threads outside the OT anymore.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Yeah, I should do the same. In what world does 1.3 million subs mean the game will soon be F2P?
bloodforge
Member
It's not doing WoW numbers, therefore, failure. /rollseyes
No MMO will ever do WoW numbers again.
And I'm sick of people saying "should have just made KOTOR 3". If they did that we wouldn't have gotten anything but the Knight storyline.
BattleMonkey
Member
1.3mil subs is not bad, but what is bad is that it dropped 400k in 3 months. How much more will it potentially lose? Perhaps things will level off eventually but I can only imagine them losing more with all the big games coming out soon.
Subs dropping is to be expected, they really lost alot of people with how long it took them to get 1.2 out. This hopefully lights a fire under their asses to get 1.3 and future updates going faster, and more events damnit!
Interesting about the content pack in Q1..... wonder what Allies means
Subs dropping is to be expected, they really lost alot of people with how long it took them to get 1.2 out. This hopefully lights a fire under their asses to get 1.3 and future updates going faster, and more events damnit!
Interesting about the content pack in Q1..... wonder what Allies means
It seems once the Rakghoul event ended, my server has seen a decent drop of players, at least on the Republic side. 1.2 and then the Rakghoul invasion brought a TON of people back, we were seeing as many people on the fleet as during launch week it was fantastic. Get on that content Bioware!
HarryDemeanor
Member
Might be in reference to the Group Finder in 1.3. At least it would make sense to me.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
If the Torhead future content leaks are any indication it likely means
new companions
BattleMonkey
Member
Hopefully by calling it a content pack, it doesn't mean some form of mini dlc/expansion that we have to buy separately
If your going to be charging a sub to play your game, you need to be constantly providing content to your paying customers in this day and age with all the competition. Them taking almost 4 months for one content update after launch is pathetic. Not even a single even in all those 4 months? Seriously? At least other games between big updates has smaller bits of content that filters to players to keep interest and events on regular basis too.
If your going to be charging a sub to play your game, you need to be constantly providing content to your paying customers in this day and age with all the competition. Them taking almost 4 months for one content update after launch is pathetic. Not even a single even in all those 4 months? Seriously? At least other games between big updates has smaller bits of content that filters to players to keep interest and events on regular basis too.
StudioTan
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BattleMonkey
Member
Thank god. Could imagine the shit storm if they attempted to released paid for expansions at this point.
I read elsewhere that it was 1.3m subs as of the end of March. Anyone know if that's the case, or is that where numbers currently stand?
StudioTan
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I agree, but I'm still thinking there will be an expansion for Christmas. Right now it's WAY too early for paid updates.
Without any more info we have to assume the number is as of Mar 31st because that is when the report period ends. It doesn't mean it's the case though, the last report ended 10 days after launch and when they announced 1.7 millions subs they made it clear they were talking as of Feb 1st which is when the report came out. So it could go either way.
FieryBalrog
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It is the only server anyone should roll on imo.
Is that on Pub or Imp side?
30 Pubs tops on my server The Crucible Pitts, which was the designated media server at launch.
Yeah, I am not delving into that BS anymore.
Imp side for me, but I know there are some big guilds on rep side.
StudioTan
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Sith Wyrm pub side is usually around 50-60 people on the fleet during the evenings, around 30 during the day and after midnight and gets up to 80-90 on occasion. I know the Imp side is more heavily populated. During the Rakghoul event we had over 100 pubs on Tattooine the first couple of days. This is a Standard server although we might be one of the more heavily populated servers with that classification.
MaddenNFL64
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Always waiting on my friend to log on, so I can play the the damn story along with him. Slowing me down a ton. The bastard, having a life 
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.1. Bioware suffers from bad PR, the weekly qa's will give one good answer and then answer softball questions, that were already answered in other materials. They have been really quiet about 1.3, some of you guys were expecting 1.3 in May, I don't think it's going to happen until July now at the earliest.
2. Their patch q and a is horrible, each weekly patch breaks more then it fixes. (apparently the matix cubes - the datacron relics will disappear from login or changing zones with this newest patch). What's the point of PTS if it isn't even used.
3. They're at the xroads with Diablo III coming up and they keep on dropping the ball asides from the Rakghoul event (which I enjoyed for what it was).
2. Their patch q and a is horrible, each weekly patch breaks more then it fixes. (apparently the matix cubes - the datacron relics will disappear from login or changing zones with this newest patch). What's the point of PTS if it isn't even used.
3. They're at the xroads with Diablo III coming up and they keep on dropping the ball asides from the Rakghoul event (which I enjoyed for what it was).
Isn't 1.3 basically confirmed before the end of June.
Not really, that's just the fiscal report which has no basis in reality dealing with the troubles that the teams have been implementing stuff (see all of 1.2 delays).
BattleMonkey
Member
Is the PTS even up or is it shut down currently?
It's in the best interests to get 1.3 out as soon as possible and they just recently said they were going to get it out soon and why dual specs are not in it. Don't know where people got the May date from though, sounded ridiculous at the time that they would roll out the next update in only a month.
It's in the best interests to get 1.3 out as soon as possible and they just recently said they were going to get it out soon and why dual specs are not in it. Don't know where people got the May date from though, sounded ridiculous at the time that they would roll out the next update in only a month.
They got it because Georg Zoeller said content patches would be monthly since then (I think he's been muzzled a bit which is a good thing, haven't seen much posting from him in while). And while I do want 1.3 out as soon as possible, if they don't have it ready they aren't going to have it ready, I have seen barely any info coming from the usual suspects hyping 1.3 at all.
PTS has been down since 1.2 launched.
BattleMonkey
Member
They were saying they wanted to do monthly updates back in January but we saw that never happened. The handling of 1.2 was horrible, they need to cut the crap with these "big" updates and just constantly be streaming us new material to keep interest going.
They also said they wanted to get the rated pvp stuff started, at least the preseason before 1.3 was deployed as well.
That won't happen. Ranked PVP needs cross-server play to work.
Not on fatman. Pvp ques pop every 3 minutes all night and day long
. Atleast sub 50 since im not at cap yyet. Sorc assassin is incredibly better than merc news at 11.BattleMonkey
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Not on fatman. Pvp ques pop every 3 minutes all night and day long
But alot of the other servers it will be a problem when they suddenly split the pvp userbase between ranked and unranked queues. Majority of servers will likely suffer when it comes to the queues.
/jealousNot on fatman. Pvp ques pop every 3 minutes all night and day long
Dont be i left tons of stuff on kv. It sucks hard.
Edit: dude come and reroll with me. Im not that far along. Lets start a gaf group on fatman.
GungHo
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No... they haven't said anything regarding when we'll see it. Until it's on the PTS, I wouldn't estimate it for any date, nor would I trust a date given by anyone else. Even if it's on the PTS... the most you could say is "within the next month or two".
KV for lyfe
Kv will be swallowed up in a merger or ripped apart by transfers. Its a ghost town already.
Yeah, it's weird. It went from being average pop to a ghost town over the last few months.
BattleMonkey
Member
Did you try to repair option from the launcher?
Its really sad and i play off hours so i was really suffering. Plus all my friends are there but fatman being so active its even better than launch. Plus since bioware broke mercs i really needed to reroll anyways. I never saw 200 on drumand kass. Every herioc has people grouping it constantly its just really nice to have a living world. Bioware needs to merge immediately imo.
So many changes in this patch. The PVP daily change is very welcome. Needing 6 games played, and having wins count for 2 should really provide a boost to the PVP scene. Now it won't matter if you are facing an 8 man Starsiders team, as long as you are willing to get your face kicked in a couple times depending on the pugs you get. The Zorn & Toth bug with Fearful explains a lot, I knew I had always been in a safe range when that had triggered before. Being able to reverse engineer moddable custom gear is a welcome change, now more selling off War Hero crit fails for nothing basically. The Nightmare Pilgrim fix for the trigger to start the fight is nice, Foudre's attempts to troll us last time by starting it early meant we didn't get to attempt it due to that bug.
And of course, the Matrix Cube glitch has been added, wouldn't be great patch notes without something like that working it's way in.
And on the topic of Keller's Void pop issues, it has been bad the last week. I don't think it as bad as we are making it out to be though, I think a ton of people are just playing alts, so the fleet pop just looks a lot smaller. We peaked at around 100 on fleet last evening, which is a far cry from the old peaks. We do need those transfers and mergers soon though, we are losing a ton of pvpers to other servers now. And I don't even want to think about what happens after next week and Diablo 3...
And of course, the Matrix Cube glitch has been added, wouldn't be great patch notes without something like that working it's way in.
And on the topic of Keller's Void pop issues, it has been bad the last week. I don't think it as bad as we are making it out to be though, I think a ton of people are just playing alts, so the fleet pop just looks a lot smaller. We peaked at around 100 on fleet last evening, which is a far cry from the old peaks. We do need those transfers and mergers soon though, we are losing a ton of pvpers to other servers now. And I don't even want to think about what happens after next week and Diablo 3...
BattleMonkey
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Yay didn't see the daily pvp change