When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

My post is the 3920th post on this topic. So apologies - I haven't read them all.

Its amazing to see so many of us using the forum, but yet no one seems to be in game (at least on my server!).

I can appreciate why Bioware wouldn't want to merge servers, as from a PR perspective, it's a bit like admitting defeat. But in reality, its just the natural way of things; there's always the rush to try a new game at launch (any game) and then the crowds ebb away and the developers are left with the players that actually like the game they've created - the paying customers.

The sad thing is, for those of us still playing (and paying! please take note Bioware ) it feels really rather lonely when online. Which is not a good thing for an MMO.

I really hope they will look at the success that WoW had with global pvp servers - it totally rejuvenated the playing experience for most people on WoW, and fingers crossed, Bioware will make swift steps to do the same.

In the meantime, I wonder how many posts we all have to make before they notice this is a 'bit' of an issue??

Yea, i'am not sure why bioware is taking so long to merge the servers... seems like a horrible move on their part to delay this.. Terentanec is way dead and it is to the point that it is NOT fun to play anymore... I will be ending my subscription until the merge or transfers happen. Why pay for a game that is not producing what it promised? I will not.

Come into this decade with us. Transfers now take your items with you. In Rift last year, you logged in, picked a server, clicked "move to" and voila, moved with all your stuff, bank items and all.

They also put a message on targeted servers, allowed players to pick which server to move to, then once emptied, shut them down.

This is most likely what BioWare will do. It's a LOT less buggy than the convoluted, outdated merging, and actually works better.

Yes but I have a guild but I also have a seperate group of friends in WZ/PvP who I play with regularly what's the liklyhood everyone is going to stay together? Pretty slim. What the poster was saying is that transfers will split communities instead of adding to existing ones which would be the better option for an MMO community as a whole

I'm starting to wonder what the heck BW is using all their time on, don't they have hundreds of devs working on TOR? The critical LFG tool and server transfers sure is taking it's sweet time. TOR is slowly burning because of dead servers, lack of people to play with makes even more people quit. TOR can be turned around to grow but BW better get their act together.

Not really. It's hard to believe a claim like that when the alternative has already been done and proven to work. Again, the proof that transfer/shut-downs work much better than merges is already in the Rift pudding.

To be honest, Transfers/Merges should have been announced as being ready the day before Diablo 3 release, I know plenty of people heading off to that which will only make the situation worse on Hidden Beks... Buuuuuuuuuuut someone in PR/Community planning is dropping the ball by not taking comments back to devs/creative teams.

Slowly?

I don't know about you, but my server has gone from 240 people on the fleet at it's high point to less than 80 on average at prime time in 2 months.

That feels pretty rapid to me, most of the guilds with 16 mans have since been reduced to 8 mans.

It's actually getting to a point where it is impossible to even maintain a raid group for some of this game's content. Add to this the fact that the devs have completely hidden inside of their turtle shells, this game is RAPIDLY burning, not slowly.

So people get a choice and they're all going to go to the same server? Really?

Once you reach 50 and on one wants to run a HM because theres only 60 people on the server and half are lvling alts, what is there to do? I'm sick of soloing dailies and I want to play in a MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER game. The game feels dead!!