The number of subscribers and players is constantly dropping ever since it got released and people aren't subscribing, the overall subscriptions are still falling, it wasn't a huge number at max, but it still didn't drop enough to reach the constant subscription base and it's already pretty low and there are a lot of unacceptable mistakes, mistakes that some get fixed and new ones just as bad appear out of nowhere, paired with questionable design decisions.
Regarding MMOs, it's always the negativity that is constantly present online, but the negatives of SWTOR are repeated so much by every hater or underwhelmed buyer that it can't all be false or written from anger and frustration.
They didn't release it everywhere, but it doesn't matter, it certainly didn't release everywhere in Europe and from what I've seen in the past 1.5 weeks, it's the most active in Europe ( which isn't saying much), it not being officially released everywhere is hardly a consolation for the low numbers, most that wanted it couldn't wait, they already bought the game, as for the players, the servers are empty (from their assessment of light) all week except Saturday and Sunday. A huge MMO that had a lot invested in it, having almost the same amount of serves with a few players as WoW has medium load servers and the same number of standard servers that WOW has on heavy load (which is the top for WoW unlike SWTOR that is till very high). Sure WoW has a legacy behind it and around 10 mill constant subscribers atm (not necessarily players), but a just released highly marketed, high investment MMO to not have more than a "heavy" server constantly after the first month (EU), and several during the two days of the weekend (some in US and more in the EU, this time a few with very heavy load too).
It's not doing great at all, it's falling hard and that's the undeniable fact, what's unknown for now is how low will it fall and that will be pretty accurate assessment next month.
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