When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

lawl thats too funny

Grats! You are two people who aren't working or at school on a wednesday morning.

Yes, but if I can CHOOSE which of the 3 or 4 "fatmans" i go to, I have a much better chance of keeping my names. Merges deny players choice. Transfers give it to them. Some people like Light, some like Standard, some like Heavy... Mergers would force people to Heavy when they might prefer standard.

I don't want some cross server raid finder like wow implemented.. that is just stupid. The lack of people on any one server is a huge issue that needs to be fixed. Whats the point of calling this game an MMORPG if the massively multiplayer part is nonexistent?

1. Mergers and transfers don't have to be mutually exclusive
2. Players preferring a standard or light server could re-roll or transfer off of a heavily populated server should they find themselves on one following a merger

Losing your cherished characters name can be rough, I dealt with that twice in other MMOs. But the benefits gained from the mergers and/or transfers outweighed that loss.

QFT. As long as you have both mergers and transfers, there should be no problem wish merges first.

As I see it now, transfers would just make the problem WORSE for low-pop servers, unless Bioware makes leaving the server MANDATORY. In that case maybe it could work out all right. It would still be a bummer to break up the community we've built with our own servers though. I really like the current community, I just wish it was... bigger.

Ok, I'm not sure how you do mergers then? Say Rubat Crystal is merged with Ebon Hawk. Does not a merge mean that one of the servers, for argument sake let's say Rubat Crystal, is shut down? Everyone on Rubat Crystal is FORCED to move to Ebon Hawk, yes?

Now, I could decide I'd rather be on um Darth Malak, sure.. but intially... I would be forced to move to Ebon Hawk, and let's face it... they are adamant already that name changes are only done if your name is deemed inappropriate or offensive. Think that will suddenly change if there is a conflict and I choose to then move, they'll let me restore my old name?

This is getting really anoying trying to play on a dead server! Atleast they could do Server switch PVP, Were players from any server play pvp against other players on other servers, Like WoW, atleast people will be a bit happyer intill they sort out the server transfer propperly

Anyone asking for a merger is obviously not a veteran MMO player. When MMOs close and merge servers, it's VERY bad news. It looks terrible for the game's health and does bad to its image.

The answer to our problems is to have a free transfer system like Rift. Rift had the same problems until their system of free transfers were added. Once this system was in place, the problem servers took care of themselves. If people wanted high pop, they went there. If they wanted low pop, they went there. If it doesn't work out, you can transfer again in a week.

You people will ignore this all you want, but a server merger is about 2-3 steps away from a game closing shop, and that is nowhere near the case for SWTOR.

For the love of god please give us a server merge or transfers. My server is so dead.

1. The station is nearly empty at all times.... Most of the time there is less than 10-20 people at fleet.
2. The GTN is completely dead there is nearly every category is empty. There is no market what so ever, you can't buy anything because you can't sell anything.
3. Can go 3 hours without a pvp game at prime time and if you do play it is the nearly the same people every time.
4. Can't get help ever, there usually is only 12-20 people on an entire planet at anyone time.

This is crap most people are ready to quit. DO SOMETHING SOON!!!!!!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT, BUT DO SOMETHING!!!
Put out a poll to the smallest servers to see what they want to do. Nearly every person wants a merger.