Was removal of hourlies a bad thing ?

pwefail

I believe so; last night most of my fleet ( Jupiter Force) were in ts playing other games,i myself re-subbed back to Tor just for something to do.
Its pointless to log into Sto now for a handful of marks when thousands are needed for fleet bases and all the shinies that we want from them.

This is not a rant,more of an observation.

I'm in game as i type this and every channel bar one is dead apart from the conversation i just started on this very subject .

So by removing the hourlies less people are logging on as there is no incentive,weren't they put ingame to get people together in the first place ?

Surely less people is worse for cryptic ? We had no weekend event this weekend just gone and i logged in for 35 mins the whole weekend just to refine dil.

I really just don't get how the metrics from the hourlies showed this is the way to go,no doubt someone more clever than me will show me the maths for this ,imho the only thing needed was to remove the crafting and extra sample event,maybe the academy event as well.

I spent 20 euro this weekend on SWTor and bought premium account for BF4 ,how many others have spent money on other games since the hourlies went "poof" ?

My opinion,mine alone,is that the removal of the hourlies is a bad bad thing.


I'm interested as to what others may think.