When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

I find it surprising that so many people in this thread think its just no big deal to reroll. But this is exactly why BW and other developers can get away with this sort of thing. We apparently have a high tolerance when it comes to services.

It makes no sense. When a movie sucks, people complain so much about how they wasted 10 bucks and 2 hours of their day on it. But apparently spending dozens of hours leveling only to have to abandon your character and repeat the process is no big deal. I don't get it. But to each their own.

I've complained to the various gaming portals- Massively, MMORPG, Darth Hater...hoping that someone would at least editorialize the issue, which may or may not capture the attention of BW. Because right now they seem more focused on a "which would you prefer ingame" poll than addressing one of the highest concerns on their forum. That speaks volumes.

And people should really review those Guild Summit notes, really see what Ohlen is saying about server merges/transfers and Legacy. 1.2 may hinder any hope of transfers for the foreseeable future, as he clearly states that the Legacy system makes transfer considerations much more complex. I keep hearing other people say they will offer transfers a little bit after the APAC transfers are complete. I've read nothing about this anywhere from BW, and Ohlen's statements clearly contradict this.

So, transferring to a high pop server might be very easy for some. But consider this scenario: What if those who don't care about rerolling roll on The Fatman, level a few toons and alts, get deep into the Legacy system, then The Fatman starts getting light. What then? Would they reroll again? From what I'm hearing, maybe they would. I've rerolled once now. I won't do it again. If The Fatman starts losing weight, I'm not feeding another fat server.

No info from developers? Everybody on forum are asking for one thing... a developer should ask why and how give fun to the user. No new features, planet char... a MERGE... then think about the rest... only after rhis they could think on new features...
3 hours no wz started on Trayus Academy... we don't need 1.2 or legacy or story quest... we need people to play with...

All he is saying the important of your name is trivial, nobody cares when looking at the big picture.

You will get over it, it's just a name. Server mergers will be forced eventually, it will happen with EA budget cuts. Subscriptions will eventually run out and their hand will be forced.

any reason against it seems silly.

They did give info on March 1st which has been reposted many times

I'm hoping for merges soon, very soon. I dreaded this decline the day I started playing. And its been more and more noticable for each day that goes.

Less people on plantes, less people on fleet, less people in WZs, less people in FPs and so on. First thing that caught my attention of the low population for a MMO was when I hit tatooine and expected to see republic players and PvP on a PvP server. It was mostly non-exsisting, and this was back in december.

I think many people have left this game due to the lack of W-PvP, which is a big big joke in this game. It's shielded, restricted and the one place my hopes were on, was Ilum, a total disaster. Bad preformance, silly objectives, no real point to it except to get quests done.

1.2 wont give us much. More daily quests, 1 more BG, legacy system (kinda fun), new gear, an OP and a FP. But what does it matter when there arent enough people around to enjoy it with?

Expand our character slots on servers to whatever is needed to merge incase people play on two designated servers. Then start the merging so servers get up to high pop that actually feels like high pop.

They already said they are doing it around the end of April, so why is this thread still going?
Lack of info?

You don't think a link to this information would be a good thing to add?

They said they were doing transfers, not mergers, and it was only for oceanic players. They never mentioned mergers or transfers for NA and EU players.

People are re-rolling to servers they feel are more populated because of biowares inability to properly maintain server balance through out launch and into the first few months of play.

I didn't believe my server was even all that bad until the last month or so. When I began I started on the emp side and the population was awesome. 200-250 people on the fleet prime time? Sweet!

A slowly declining population seemed like a natural thing to occur, but it hasn't stopped. There's a glimmer of more activity maybe a day or two a week. But most days there's under 150 people total on both the emp and pub fleets even at prime time, out of prime time you're looking at around 50-60 on both sides. Some people would consider this a healthy population I do not.

By the time I realized there was a substantial abnormal drop in our population still occuring, I had already vested a lot of time into characters I do not want to simply leave behind, Trade skills I've maxed out, Money I have accrued, and Legacy/Valor I have earned.

Sad thing is there are quite a few servers far worse off. I mean literally dead ghost towns.

1) Stay where you are and wait for transfers
2) Re-roll on a new server while waiting for transfers
3) Cancel until transfers are provided
4) Cancel and go away

For me, I'm teetering inbetween 1) and 4)

1) Are the people who care and want to play the game still, they just don't want to give up on what they have accomplished. These are the people who will suffer the most. They will be on these forums and they will continue to voice their displeasure. While they fight the same 10-20 people in PvP over and over again and spam for hours to get a group for a flash point.

2) If you're willing to leave what you've done behind. It's a great option, it's just a shame that there really are slim pickings as far as even healthy servers to re-roll on are concerned.. Also the effects of pop surges on so few servers long term isn't pretty, they need to find a way to spread us out more amongst fewer servers overall.

3) & 4) Unfortunate side effect of poor planning on Biowares part.