so TOR is offering a free week for folks who haven't played in a while to come back and see all the cool new stuff. i admit: i took the bait.
so far, it's been a very bad marketing idea on their part: i was on quesh, the fleet, and the republic capitol world (cor-whatever) and there was 1 other person on the entire time (in quesh, hilariously). when there are ZERO people on the fleet, that's a bad sign for an MMO. (interestingly, the server reported "light" activity. does 2 count as light?)
reading the other threads i see that most of the active imperial people already jumped to the ebon hawk. what do the republic folks think? should we go ahead since they'll probably merge the servers anyway? sadly i've checked and my main character's name - arabeth - is not available, so i don't know if it's worth bothering. they're trying to bribe us like mad with a free pet and some black hole junk that i don't know what it is, but who knows if they'll do something different in the future.
of course, i am guessing since no one is really around anyway it's all sort of moot: no one is playing so who cares if we move or not, right? and in the end, even with tons of improvements (that all should have been in the release of course) they still haven't implemented some of the things i'm most looking forward to. unfortunately the legacy system doesn't do much for someone who's main is only 37 and still in chapter 2. (also, i have noticed that generally people rate the consular's story/companions as the worst in the game. since >80% of my game time was on my consular, i know i'm still missing a lot of good content. but it's also hard to convince myself to start all over, especially when the game played so slowly on my consular.)
i guess ultimately this is a quick shout out to see if anyone else is going to pick this game back up, or if we're all going to continue to wait for pandera and then jump back to WoW (especially since D3 apparently disappointed a lot: i didn't even pick it up). i know there's some good content in there, but i also know you can't really play a MMO by yourself.
in other news i hope everyone is doing well!