When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

I know posting this will accomplish nothing, but I figured I may as well share my support for server merges.

I'm on Death Wind Corridor. Played Empire since pre-launch, never had any problems getting flashpoint/heroic groups on my main character. Last month I rolled a Jedi Knight - was unable to do a single heroic or flashpoint, due to the low population - other than the 2 that I paid a level 50 a ridiculous amount of credits to take me through because I really wanted to see the story.

Back on my empire main, and I I've decided want the speeder you get from completing hard mode flashpoints. Can't do it. I can spam the fleet with "DPS LFG ANY HM" all night and get nothing.

I have 8 characters, total, that I've put a lot of effort into and frankly, I care about them. So I'm going to stop playing before I reroll onto a more populated server.

So, it won't work if they just allow everyone on your dead server to transfer off and close it down? Before you answer, look how well it worked for Rift last year. They did NOT do merges, but transferred off the dead servers and shut them down to reduce the amount of servers that were available.

This is what TOR will very likely do.

Exactly.

Just checking in to see how the kitten herding is going for you in this thead tonight JC.

They staying pretty much in the box, or have you got runners tonight?

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Thank you for understanding.

Speed this process up dude or gal, else there wont be anyone to xfer as people are droppin like flies....
EA needs to light a fire up yo arses

I doubt you need to worry about that. The fact that BioWare had server transfer software ready since beta, then a few last-minute changes to Legacy caused it to not work thus necessitated the rewrite, thus pushing it off a couple of months, yeah.... I'm sure EA has lit a napalm fire...

RIFT only have couple of tens servers now and its in standart population. At Steam you can see the number of players playng the game or at Xfire and its couple thousnd ppl. To keep TOR going well, they need at least 500 000 ppl as they informed at news.

LOL a couple thousand people play rift huh?

just a couple thousand.

troll comment of the year right here folks.

Its a shame to have their devs classified as devlopers, it makes the rest of us look bad :/
..and that napalm didnt move em...their still being unproductive and allowing a ton of money to walk out the door...just bad bad bad business my friend....guess they will learn when their all lookin for new jobs in a few months....cause if I was EA i'd pull the plug within 6 months if there isnt a large turn around.

lol /funny , RIFT has hundreds of thousands of subs... guess they need to practice basic math