When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

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Its not my obligation to server hop until I can play the game with other people.

Throwing tantrums in forums and/or crossing your arms, sitting on the floor of your dead server and pouting isn't the way to go. It's not the least bit constructive.

Of course it is...

Maybe not in the overly-dramatic way you are trying to represent it, but the only way the server becomes less populated is if people (the CUSTOMERS) stop playing on it. It's the same game on every server (not counting PVP aspect), so you can't really blame BIOWARE for the low population on YOUR server. You just happened to roll on a server that a large population has either left the game or gone on to other servers. It happens, adapt and move on...

Bioware will try to make the customers happy, but sometimes, you have to do it yourself. If you like the game enough to stay, then either come to terms with the low population, reroll on a more populated server, or transfer when the option becomes available. If you want to just sit here and try to insult or guilt Bioware into doing what you want, go for it, but it doesn't solve your problem.

And for those who are complaining that you spent real money to build up the 8 50's you have on your server, you obviously like the game. Play it again somewhere that will make you happier. if the game dies or you quit playing, you don't get to take the characters or gear with you, so whether or not you paid money to create them is a moot point.

All I'm saying is there are solutions to your problems, maybe not the solutions you want (at present), but take some control and either go to another game that will make you happier, or start over on another server until you can transfer your favorites over. Stop throwing yourselves on the floor in a ball and whimpering about people not playing with you.

Here's the problem with that. When I first started on my server, it was fine. Totally fine. It has become less fine as time goes on, but by then, my legacy was set, my main has several hundred hours put into him, and I am NOT going to simply start over. If there's nothing to do (because there's no one to play with,) you correctly identified that I have two options - re-roll on a different server or quit playing. Well, to me, quit playing sounds like the more appealing of those two options. I mean, it's sad, I like the game, but I do not like it ENOUGH to want to re-do everything. Well, if I feel that way, I'm sure others will feel that way. The effect snowballs. Everyone who is willing to re-roll will, and everyone who is not, will simply quit.

Now, my own personal experiences show me that people are leaning towards quitting (in the past month my guild has seen a dozen of our most active members quit because there was nothing to do,) but I realize that others experiences may be different. So tell me, are you betting on those willing to re-roll being numerous enough to keep the game profitable?

Ta-Dahh!!! a bunch of half-populated servers and everyone blaming Bioware for causing it. And frankly the only way they could be classified as "at fault" for this situation is because they caved to the demands of the customers, just like everyine is demanding they do now.

you do realize that swtor is a business, right? of course it is bio/ea's fault that some servers are woefully underpopulated. it is never the gamer's fault for demanding _______________. fill in the blank with whatever you wish. gamers don't have a responsibility to consider the long-term health of the game. gamers don't have to consider the ea quarterly report. gamers have Wants.

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this is all axiomatic. bio has been making games for a long time. when they made bg2, people were demanding that the class kits be extremely over-powered... gamers like to be powerful. bio was smart enough to realize that if kits were too powerful, characters would be similarly powerful. every gamer wants a powerful character, but bio knew that those same gamers would be the first to complain that the game was "too easy." this conundrum of dealing with player demands is hardly new territory for a veteran developer. blaming the gamer because he/she asked for something that is ultimately bad for the game (not that i am conceding that adding servers was a bad idea) is ridiculous. if bio knew, or should have known, that populations would drop so significantly, then they should have planned accordingly. clearly bio did not plan for the current eventuality or they wouldn't need to be looking for solutions.

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It's one of those lose/lose situations for every MMO developer in history. Either there is a thread this long about how bad launch sucked because of 2 months of server queues, or mitigate the server queues and endure the "my server is dead" threads.

Either way, this is nothing new, people. I fail to see why people are acting like it is something new when it's not. And mergers aren't the answer anymore. Trnsfers are, especially with TOR's unbalanced population. Transfers allows that "fluid" to average out. Merges would make it worse.

In TOR's current case transfers>mergers.

Can i just point out i am IN FAVOUR OF A SERVER MERGE.

Now....i must also point out taht a lot of players i have spoken to about this are quite mis-informed when it comes to server population.

Firstly, just because there are only 10 people on fleet at peak times does NOT mean that a server has low populaion, it means just simply that there are only 10 people on FLEET.

Swtor has over 40 areas in the game per faction (planets, ships, pvp, flashpoints, etc) and at any one time there may be a lot more people in one of those other areas than there are on fleet.