When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

What needs to be done is CALL BW ON THE TELEPHONE AND MAKE THEM AWARE OF YOUR DISPLEASURE WITH THE LOW-POP SERVER ISSUES

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Perhaps if they get enough calls they will stop blowing this thread off and start addressing the problem. For you who cannot call toll free, use the e-mail form to CS at this link:

http://www.swtor.com/support/form

BW needs to be made aware how much this situation affects PAYING CUSTOMERS quality of gameplay and that not doing something, soon, may jeopardize the return of customers with those paid subs. A smattering of nicely populated/fun to play worlds is not acceptable nor is re-rolling on said servers after we have made great strides to build our Toons and Legacies on servers that have become barren wastelands..

I don't understand how this issue is not addressed in every one of their weekly Q&A's, the fact is, it's the only question people are even asking, yet they choose to ignore it. I made an alt on Fat man just to get an idea of what their population was like and it actually made me more mad. Kinrath Spider had 2 people on Korriban, including myself. I go on Fatman 105..

I am on Kinrath as well.

I canceled my sub this morning.

It is a waste of my time to sit around waiting for WZ queues with no people on fleet.

And 1.2?? Level another toon? THERE ARE THREE F'IN PEOPLE ON EACH PLANET AT MOST. Leveling is more of a wasteland than the fleet. FAIL.

The fact that they had no plan in place to allow transfers/mergers is shocking.

I will go play Rift most likely with the majority of my guildies (who have left as well).

Was fun while it lasted, but poor management crushes yet another MMO.

GG Bioware.

There will be a server merge probably after 1.2. Because free transfers to the new asia-pacific servers will be given in late April, coincidentally after 1.2.

if your posting on threads to come to this thread, surely you can do server merging and stop redirecting us here...

The biggest problem is the game's inability to handle multiple players in the same area. Wait till you see the lag when you get 50 people in the same area. It will make Iron Forge look like smooth sailing (where you might have 100 people, and that was over 7 years ago).

Basically, the game was made without any foresight. Someone came up with many four man and flashpoints, but didnt realize that to do these you need a large player pool. Meanwhile, they designed an engine that was graphic heavy but had to run of mid-level pcs, so they skimped on the abililty to handle multiple players at the same time.

So for a single player RPG experience, this is a good game. As for multi player, have any of you out there ever played NeverWinter Nights on a private server (they published the code and allowed people to create their own worlds, hosting multiple people on their own PCs)? That game, and the private servers, allowed a better multiplayer experience than does SWTOR. I dont know how they will fix this problem. Probably the easist fix is cross realm lfgs.

Lastly, there is the name issue. For a simple fix I'd put a number after someone's name who transfer in. EG if my character, Drunkenpig, transfers to another server, because my character's name is so popular someone no doubt already has it. So at the new location I would be "Drunkenpig1" or, Drunkenpig23".

There is absolutely no information to base this on. If there are no merges and/or transfers starting this month, this mmo will snuff out sooner than later. This is completely and utterly ridiculous how they offer no information about merges, and no response to a huge forum thread about it. They're not the only mmo to be released in 2012. You'd think they would want to work to keep their customer base.

You could always just say upon transfer - "Sorry, I'm afraid your name is currently used on this server. Please select a new one."

Not really rocket science now is it. Then you update the SQL tables to reflect that name change, and you're done. Same goes for Legacy names.


EDIT: Incidentally, I've just re-rolled on Europe's only populated server... The tomb of nar Faradd (or something similar), the problem with that though is that because everyone is jumping on that one server, there's usually a queue, whilst the rest of the servers are all standard/low.

THIS PROBLEM CANNOT BE FIXED BY PLAYERS - IT REQUIRES ~BW~ INTERVENTION...

I would be a lot more inclined to continue playing if:

BW WOULD AT LEAST ADMIT THERE'S A PROBLEM - AND THAT THEY ARE 'WORKING ON IT'!!

But they seem to be either ignoring it, ignorant of it, or unwilling to act on it. All of which are real management problems.

to all the people who are complaining about there not being anyone on their servers anymore that is what happens when at launch you don't want to wait for the busy servers and go to a lower pop server at launch because all MMO's slow down after the first month and half the servers will die. i do think it would be nice to have a merger for all the smallest servers to relieve the problem though. but what did you expect when you joined a lower population server early in the games life.

I think it shows a large problem over at the BW office. This issue implies to me that there is infighting at the director level on how to handle it, therefor the PR and Marketing people can't get near the issue.

The fact of the matter is, this issue is massive. People who say otherwise either have infinite amounts of time to re roll toons, are on high pop servers or have little to no business sense.

I work full time, and I am in school full time picking up a new degree. I don't have the time or the patience to re roll on another server. It's taken me 4 months of playing to get me where I am now. I'm not about to sideline my 50 and 45 toons.