When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

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...

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.

This. Simply put, there aren't enough high pop servers to feed into the low pop ones. And I don't know too many people that are going to leave the high pop ones either, especially given the sheer number of re-rolls that went there specifically to escape the low population servers to begin with. In any case, the number of people leaving high pops for low pops will not be close to the number of people leaving low for high pops. Its an unsustainable model.

Further, the transfers are just going to make things worse for the people who don't leave. What you'll see is a dozen to 2 dozen (and I'm being generous here) servers pick up population wise from all the people transferring from standard/light pop servers to heavy/high pop servers. The standard/light ones they left are now light/dead and the people left behind are in a worse place then before.

If they don't want to do merging, they need to make transferring mandatory. Meaning, the server is shutting down by the end of the month, you have X number of days/weeks to pick which one of these 4 servers you are going to. if you don't pick one by the end of the time specified, you get auto assigned.

Just opening up transfers is akin to throwing their hands in the air and telling us to fix it (similar to those who told everyone to reroll to Fatman)

Except that, as shown today, TOR is still launching in other countries, possibly even more than today. They need the servers. Also, there is no proof that the transfers will only be one-way....

What?

They aren't the same servers. They didn't pull 6 US servers down to open 6 Asia Pacific ones. The population problems on US and Euro servers still exist.

And you are right, there is no proof the server transfers will be one way. That still doesn't change anything.

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.

What should change this discussion, though, is well-documented track records, wouldn't you say? Look at every other MMO that has had the very same "launch surge/dropoff" of concurrent playtimes, implemented server transfers 4 to 6 months after launch, and how often did that fix the issue? 9 times out of 10 it worked.

What?

They aren't the same servers. They didn't pull 6 US servers down to open 6 Asia Pacific ones. The population problems on US and Euro servers still exist.

And you are right, there is no proof the server transfers will be one way. That still doesn't change anything.

What should change this discussion, though, is well-documented track records, wouldn't you say? Look at every other MMO that has had the very same "launch surge/dropoff" of concurrent playtimes, implemented server transfers 4 to 6 months after launch, and how often did that fix the issue? 9 times out of 10 it worked.

Why are we suddenly so pessimistic now? BioWare has already stated three times last week that actual sub numbers have not dropped, but concurrent playtimes have. That means that if they merge the servers, the FULL queue times during Events and Expansions would be unacceptable.