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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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Leggomy
05.03.2012 , 10:44 PM | #631
Quote: Originally Posted by theskurGe View Post
$400 for a video card for an MMO is a mistake. MMO games are mostly CPU bound.
Your second mistake was buying a PvE game and expecting good PvP.
This game that was marketed and designed around the epic storylines. PvP is just a bolt-on afterthought.
Also the KB will work with another game. The video card works without swtor. I mean come on thats crazy to spend so much on a KB tell the truth heh.

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Leggomy
05.03.2012 , 10:47 PM | #632
Quote: Originally Posted by theskurGe View Post
When those 5 people ignore chat and your guild is dead there's not much you can do.
Congrats on finding a stable Guild, but there are many servers that have had massive player drop-offs and dead guilds.
I bet most standard servers have guilds like the one I am in. There are tons of guilds on darth bandon with similar if not more people. You have to be social in this game. Im used to it coming from LOTRO where there is nothing fun you can do at end cap without a full group of at least 6. Finding groups without a guild is near impossible. One thing that would probably fix things is if they had a globally broadcast lfg channel similar to lotros. No matter where you are in lotro you can talk in a global channel to look for groups.

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BuzzBoyy
05.03.2012 , 10:55 PM | #633
hi there

i play on Veela and population go down , take more then 30 min sometime for lvl 50 wz and more long queu on low level pvp ...


need server merge or anything plz
preordered
11/11/11 troop !

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mrwoogie
05.03.2012 , 11:07 PM | #634
Let me first say that I never post on the forums but felt compelled to post a response in the hopes that BW will take some action fast. I have been playing this game since launch and have kept faith in swtor because I sincerely enjoy this MMO. I used to see myself playing this game for months to come...perhaps longer than that, at least until recently. There needs to be a server merge...and very soon. It has become simply too hard to get into PVP, find a party for Flashpoints or any of the things that a successful MMO requires. I love this game but I am reaching my breaking point. Merge servers Bioware...merge them soon or I will at the very least have to suspend my subscription until you do.

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theskurGe
05.03.2012 , 11:08 PM | #635
Quote: Originally Posted by Leggomy View Post
I bet most standard servers have guilds like the one I am in. There are tons of guilds on darth bandon with similar if not more people. You have to be social in this game. Im used to it coming from LOTRO where there is nothing fun you can do at end cap without a full group of at least 6. Finding groups without a guild is near impossible. One thing that would probably fix things is if they had a globally broadcast lfg channel similar to lotros. No matter where you are in lotro you can talk in a global channel to look for groups.
LOTRO founder here, know all about the social aspect of MMOs.
I have re-rolled on multiple servers only to see the population die. It's kinda sad. One of my friends tells me I have the SWTOR death-touch. As soon as my characters boots touch down on a server, it goes into it's death-throes.

I am debating re-rolling on another server, but it's such a grind having to do all the quests again.
The voice acting and storylines are played out when you've done them before. And those are this games main selling points.

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ross_deutsch
05.03.2012 , 11:13 PM | #636
Merge servers soon, or the game fails. Guild aren't for everyone.
May the Force be with you!

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JeramieCrowe
05.03.2012 , 11:24 PM | #637
Quote: Originally Posted by ross_deutsch View Post
Merge servers soon, or the game fails. Guild aren't for everyone.
They're going to do that, I bet. That is, if by "merge" you mean transferring people off the low-pops and shutting them down, which is NOT a merge. It's a transfer. Also, since BioWare "transferred" hundreds of entire guilds onto servers for launch (including mine), I doubt that guild transfers will be much of a problem for them.

However, if you really mean the actual meaning of "merge", that is combining the software, complete environments, loot tables, economy, world differences, etc. of two different servers into one that usually results in a plethora of bugs, unplayability, and unhappy subscribers, I doubt it, as it's a convoluted, unnecessarily buggy process to accomplish pretty much the same thing as transfer/shut-downs.

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JeramieCrowe
05.03.2012 , 11:31 PM | #638
Quote: Originally Posted by Raansu View Post
Those "standard" servers are extremely empty, you know that right? I had friends on darth malek which was a "standard" server and it averaged 30 people at prime time on the fleet...30...Now imagine how dead the light servers are. If only 3 servers can even manage heavy at prime time then there is something wrong. Server mergers need to happen, simple as that.
Well, I know there are many servers that need to be transferred/shut down. However, my server The Ebon Hawk, is regularly rated at STANDARD and has over 150 on the Fleet almost every day at peak.

I think his point is that the issue isn't as bad as people are trying to make it out to be, i.e. "the game is dying". It's not. We're just experiencing the very same thing all MMOs face 4 to 6 months after launch. Transfer/shut-downs will fix it. The game isn't dying.
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Raansu
05.03.2012 , 11:37 PM | #639
Quote: Originally Posted by Leggomy View Post
Lol ok so now even being standard is not good enough for you? Come on I am on one of the standard servers. 80 some people in the republic fleet. 47 people online in the guild. So ya your numbers are WAY off. If 71 servers isnt enough for you I dont know what could ever please you. Not all of us love queues and people ganking all the quest mobs etc. I like my server the way it is now. You want crowds there are 5 servers in NA alone available to you.
Congrats, you like empty servers, some people actually like a server that looks...ya know...alive. Some people want to face more then the same groups of people in pvp every single day. 80 people is not a lot of people on the fleet when you compare it to the more populated servers like fatman harbinger and jedi covenant. Servers need to be merged, planets need to be more lively. Running around a planet with 5 people on it doesn't feel very mmoish.

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Gfnacho
05.04.2012 , 12:58 AM | #640
In Scepter of Ragnos (EU), we hardly reach 50 rep players at peak hours, i wasn't able to play a WZ in the last 4 days… (yesterday i checked every hour from 5pm to 23pm, and none wz was played).