When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

The people who are on low level servers put a lot of time, effort, and money (real and ingame) into their toons. Why do the people loyal to those servers have to suffer because other people bailed early in the game for a different high population servers. I do not want to start my guild, legacy, and toons all over on a another server. I will not be switching servers, I will just quit. I can't keep playing the same people in pvp (this is if I get a que pop with in the hour or two I play). Let's put the massive back into massive multiplayer online shall we?

My guess is that for PR reasons, there will not be server merges.

I can see the headlines now. "SWTOR merging servers due to poor subscription rates."

Given that, I can just about guarantee that there will just be transfers.

- P

Merging servers has become a norm in MMOs. What we are waiting for in TOR is new hardware so the devs can combine the servers.

AMEN! I remember when the game launched and all the servers were full and everyone had to wait HOURS to get on. Everyone held their breath and stamped their feet demanding that caps be raised or new servers opened! They had the same crap to say that "Bioware doesn't listen to it's customers! There's too many people on my server!" and they pouted and threatened to go back to Warcraft and play Pandas if Bioware didn't bow to their demands.

Bioware, along with most ANY experienced MMO gamer, KNEW that after the game launches, a lot of people leave for one reason or another and the populations on the servers DROP! They even told the people complaining that this was their concern and why they didn't want to open up so many servers. But the whiners demanded it, they got it and what happened? The server populations dropped and many servers became ghost towns.

Now the same babies that were crying that they couldn't get on, now want to play on a server that has a queue time so they can find people to play with. And once again, it's ALL Bioware's fault! And they aren't l;istening to their customers because they want server mergers and character transfers! YEESH!

Server mergers aren't as simple as just copying characters from one server to another. Some players will have the same names as characters on other servers and would have to rename their characters, Cue the whining that they shouldn't have to lose their character name because it wasn't THEIR fault the server slowed down, etc. There are many factors to take into consideration when merging servers, so relax, take a breath and roll a new character on a populated server until they get all the details hashed out.

It's fine to want it. It's fine to ask for it. It's fine to state that you may consider leaving because it's not fun enough without other players to play with. But let's stop all this "Bioware isn't jumping for my every demand or personally responding to my every question!". The fact is they did what we asked, against their better judgment, and now we're suffering for it. They will fix the problem as best they can, but there are hundreds of other requests to fix hundreds of other problems. Work around your problem until the fix is ready.

I personally have a level 50 character and a level 30 that I love playing that are sitting on a dead server until i can transfer them. I started new characters and am working on them in the meantime.

So it's the customers fault that we are stuck on dead server?
Sigh... Think i will chance my career choice and start doing games, seems to a good place where i can blame my customers for my own shortcomings.

So let me get this right, an experienced MMO developer absolutely KNEW something would happen and when it does they're not ready for it !!

Understandable I guess if it happens much sooner than they expect.

screw server mergers theyll just wait for everyone on low pop servers to cancel then shuttdown the server . much cheaper for them since theres only 5 people apparently on those fleets at a time.

i have a 50 jug on Krath server, the pve side there is entirely dead. The pvp side is doable but only during peak time and night time when the que rounds up to the 10-15 min. In between those times im forced to play my trooper on fatman. Its been months since game launched and im yet to be able to run battle of illum , false empery or any of the new rakghoul flash points. Ill probably get around to it with my trooper on fatman but come on .... i had to reroll servers 3 times before fatman. All that to be able to do regular content.

Solutions::
1. Surnames, with periods after first name
2. Mergers
3. Channels

Likelihood of any happening?

Trions approach in Rift DEMONSTRATES THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO MERGE SERVERS, EVER.

The Trion model has proven this. Give the players freedom to tranfer, issue vacate notices to players on very low pop servers, close low pop servers after vacate notice expires....rinse and repeat over time.

I guess maybe I should repost this every 24 hours in this silly thread since people seem to be oblivous to why mergers is very old school for MMOs.