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BW announced their plans to kill server communities yesterday...

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BW announced their plans to kill server communities yesterday...

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schwiz
02.11.2012 , 12:22 PM | #1
Quote:
Simoon: Will you be adding the option to choose what Warzone you enter a queue for?

Gabe Amatangelo: Not until we introduce cross server queuing. If we were to allow players to choose their Warzone before they could queue across servers, then it would negatively affect how often every player would see a Warzone – and for every player that loves a certain Warzone there is another player that hates it. The population would end up divided by their Warzone choice, negatively affecting the time it would take for a specific Warzone to become available for anyone. With cross server queuing we will still have a preference to match players of the same server, but those players who choose specific preferences such as these will likely end up in a match with players in the larger Wargroup.
I don't know about you guys, but solo pvping at lvl 50 is how I made most of my in-game friends. After seeing the same faces in pvp over and over again you start to chum up with people. Next thing you know we are trading MVP metals, running flash points together, queing war zones together. Once x-server warzones are added any kind of server community will dissolve especially the pvp community.

Yes I realize you can set a preference to only play with those on the same server but: 'but those players who choose specific preferences such as these will likely end up in a match with players in the larger Wargroup'

So BW wants you to play with others from your server if you are a premade but if you still haven't made some friends on your server you have to x-server que where you will continue to not make any friends. What is everyone's thoughts on this? I remember when they added this feature to WoW and it was great that the que times dropped so much but suddenly I didn't know anyone I was playing with. And in less than a month I think the community was completely dead so I'm really not looking forward to this addition.

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wargonglok
02.11.2012 , 12:24 PM | #2
I dont want crosserver
Sniper, 'nough said

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Daecollo
02.11.2012 , 12:25 PM | #3
Yay cross servers!!!

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schwiz
02.11.2012 , 12:49 PM | #4
One for, one against, wish I could have made a poll

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Appletaz
02.11.2012 , 12:51 PM | #5
I am with you as well. Cross-server stuff is not a wise thing to do ... especially for a brand new game. It would be much more appropriate for them to merge servers or otherwise balance the servers' populations before they try the cross-server thing.

Either that, or it was a roundabout way of saying you won't be given a choice to which WZ you can enter for a long time because they don't think we are responsible enough to make choices they way they would like us to. Either way, it is a little insulting. Other games offer choice of warzones and the players adapt. Seems BW is more like Big Brother.

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lendaugy
02.11.2012 , 12:57 PM | #6
Dont see the down-side to this at all... Would you rather me sit in an empty fleet for 3 days trying to run 1 flashpoint?

Or click a button and que up with other people in the same boat as me... so we can actually Progress threw the games content?
As the always wise yoda once said, " Live Long and Prosper!"

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schwiz
02.11.2012 , 01:09 PM | #7
Quote: Originally Posted by lendaugy View Post
Dont see the down-side to this at all... Would you rather me sit in an empty fleet for 3 days trying to run 1 flashpoint?

Or click a button and que up with other people in the same boat as me... so we can actually Progress threw the games content?
Yes I would rather you sit in an empty fleet not being able to play while I play with my community on my server. They also announced server transfers yesterday so once you got sick of it you could cough up some cash and move to a better server.

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Lectro
02.11.2012 , 01:16 PM | #8
This stuff happens from forum whining. Player A starts a thread whining about huttball

Player B starts a thread whining about wanting the queue for whatever warzone they want.

Player C creates a guild/player on a PVE server and whines about PVP.

Gabe figures he can save it by listening to the awesome whine bots.

In reality he's killing the game, for a few people who will no doubt quit in the next 2 months. Leaving the rest of the community who "planned" to stay hating the changes and quitting as well..

The forums need removed from the game IMO. This is the leading cause of video game demise..

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SunwindIon
02.11.2012 , 01:17 PM | #9
so many drama queens. No, cross-server pvp queing will not "kill community", don't be an idiot.

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schwiz
02.11.2012 , 01:26 PM | #10
Quote: Originally Posted by SunwindIon View Post
so many drama queens. No, cross-server pvp queing will not "kill community", don't be an idiot.
It killed the community on my WoW server, why do you think it would be any different in tor? I think it will be even worse in tor actually because its such a young game.