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When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

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When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

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PacmanChampion
04.26.2012 , 01:46 PM | #351
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe View Post
Free server transfers, however, are coming, have already started, and will fix the issue of lower concurrent playing.
I dont understand how free server transfers are gona help? What am I gona transfer too? another low pop server?

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Dozer
04.26.2012 , 01:48 PM | #352
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe View Post
Check the dev tracker. Stephen Reid has stated several times how APAC is the beginning of server transfers for everyone.
Yeah a system in development that is still "some ways away". So sorry that doesn't comfort me that maybe in a few months i might be able to transfer. My server has been dead for atleast 2 months. I don't want to wait another few months to be able to play the game the way i was supposed to all along.

Daniel Erickson recently commented that servers population is not an issue and that mergers are not a priority. Do you really think they are going to let people transfer off low pop servers? They will open it up so only people on high pop servers can transfer to the low pop servers, but guess what? No one is coming...

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JeramieCrowe
04.26.2012 , 01:52 PM | #353
Quote: Originally Posted by PacmanChampion View Post
I dont understand how free server transfers are gona help? What am I gona transfer too? another low pop server?
Well, just refer to every other MMO that has had the exact same "launch surge/dropoff", implemented free transfers, and the flow leveled out across the board and fixed the issue.

What we're seeing here is the same old same old thing, different MMO. In other words, it's typical. Normal. And server transfers have been the fix for over a decade. To expect it to suddenly be different now is unreasonable.
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AlwaysG
04.26.2012 , 01:54 PM | #354
I hereby triple dog dare a BioWare dev to create a character on the Nathema server, republic side, and level it to 50. Then tell me we don't need server mergers.

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Soulami
04.26.2012 , 02:00 PM | #355
It would seem that Bio after the first couple months should have done what Rift did. I dont remember if they said certain servers were test servers or what, but it really seemed to help out. Im hoping that Bio takes the same path. I understand that them doing server merges might be making them admit that what they did was a failure, but you know suck it up. If for any reason BIO devs or whoever acually read this. I hope they take it to heart. Please dont do multi server PVE. It looks good on paper but when it comes down to it Id rather not have the hassle of palying with someone youll never see again. Now I think what WOW did was brilliant. With battle groups. Start implimenting something like that, and Im sure you will with ranked warzones, and PVP can be happy again

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MarsX
04.26.2012 , 02:01 PM | #356
How can this possibly not be addressed by Bioware?

Do the devs actually play the godd dammn game? Sign onto Firkrann Crystal, a East Coast PVP server...there are never ever enough republic for a WZ pop. That's right. It never happens.

On the empire side, you can pvp between the hours of 5pm and 10pm waiting approx 15-45min per queue pop, against a rotating group of the same 20 people who sign on daily.

I know for a fact this occurs on other servers. How is this not a blatantly obvious problem?

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JeramieCrowe
04.26.2012 , 02:01 PM | #357
Quote: Originally Posted by Soulami View Post
It would seem that Bio after the first couple months should have done what Rift did. I dont remember if they said certain servers were test servers or what, but it really seemed to help out. Im hoping that Bio takes the same path. I understand that them doing server merges might be making them admit that what they did was a failure, but you know suck it up. If for any reason BIO devs or whoever acually read this. I hope they take it to heart. Please dont do multi server PVE. It looks good on paper but when it comes down to it Id rather not have the hassle of palying with someone youll never see again. Now I think what WOW did was brilliant. With battle groups. Start implimenting something like that, and Im sure you will with ranked warzones, and PVP can be happy again
BioWare is implementing transfers, at around the same time Trion did for RIFT.
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MarsX
04.26.2012 , 02:02 PM | #358
Here is my post on our server forums:

I'm on Firkrann Crystal (3rd lightest pop server) and I've heard there is a new faction being added!! In fact other servers are testing it right now!

The Republic is coming in 1.3! Don't get me wrong, I love playing against the same few people every night, but I'm looking forward to a totally new faction, and a brand new War Zone called Civil War.

I really respect how quickly Bioware has pumped out this exceptional fix for our low population. Add that to the awesome new tauntaun mini pet and the recent add of amazing legacy options and I couldn't be happier. Just when I thought Bioware went above and beyond having their team dedicated to such important new features like unlock-able class emotes, I realized they dedicated more time than I would have ever expected to purchasable tech and tool emotes too!! SO AMAZING. In fact, I'm so impressed you can keep your free 30 days. ill pay double for these awesome new adds!!

Thank you Bioware for all your attention to what matters most; I am seriously looking forward to all the awesomeness to come.

PS Hopefully more emote options are on the way!!

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JeramieCrowe
04.26.2012 , 02:05 PM | #359
Quote: Originally Posted by MarsX View Post
Here is my post on our server forums:

I'm on Firkrann Crystal (3rd lightest pop server) and I've heard there is a new faction being added!! In fact other servers are testing it right now!

The Republic is coming in 1.3! Don't get me wrong, I love playing against the same few people every night, but I'm looking forward to a totally new faction, and a brand new War Zone called Civil War.

I really respect how quickly Bioware has pumped out this exceptional fix for our low population. Add that to the awesome new tauntaun mini pet and the recent add of amazing of legacy options and I couldn't be happier. Just when I thought Bioware went above and beyond having their team dedicated to such important new features like unlock-able class emotes, I realized they dedicated more time than I would have ever expected to purchasable tech and tool emotes too!! SO AMAZING. In fact, I'm so impressed you can keep your free 30 days. ill pay double for these awesome new adds!!

Thank you Bioware for all your attention to what matters most; I am seriously looking forward to all the awesomeness to come.

PS Hopefully more emote options are on the way!!
And you know what's even better? The team that provided you with all of that had nothing to do with, nor took any time and resources away from the dev team that's working on transfers! Thank goodness BioWare doesn't have a "zero sum" development department, eh?

Isn't that great?!
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MarsX
04.26.2012 , 02:07 PM | #360
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe View Post
And you know what's even better? The team that provided you with all of that had nothing to do with, nor took any time and resources away from the dev team that's working on transfers! Thank goodness BioWare doesn't have a "zero sum" development department, eh?

Isn't that great?!
I seriously appreciate some well placed sarcasm as you can tell from my post, so thank you for that reply

What drives me crazy is that they think any of that stuff matters in the face of the actual problems directly destroying game play.