Gamebreaker on "Merges"

You're still hung up on the tone. You seem to think that GBTV is the nightly news, where you expect wholly unbiased reporting of the facts. Well those days are over. The nightly news and 24-hour networks tinge all of their reporting with a sprinkle of bias. The same is true of game media, where reporters have a vested interest in sensational stories--like layoffs.

GBTV knows that a title like "Doomed to fail?" is a bit more attention-getting than "Lay-offs at BioWare." They want people to watch their videos and read their stories. They're not gonna get that audience by reporting on rainbows or sunshine--nor by reporting on those stories with lollipops and gumdrops. Negative stories sell. Negative stories with sensational headlines sell even better.

Welcome to the real world.

Oh wow.

You really want to go there? I mean, really?

GBTV had no bearing on the mass exodus after 1.2's failure to keep people in the game. Thats just a completely illogical correlation. Its laughable.

My biased ? what biased is that exactly. but back to the point which isnt you implying that im a fanboi. The server xfers are in full flow which is correct, are you in some way saying that is a bad thing ?

You do realise that there are 3 full servers on asia pacfic that were migrated from the eu and us servers.

And im only seeing one of us being biased here. you.

Thats great and all.....

But the person I quoted and myself were not talking about server populations at all actually.

We were talking about people repeatedly mentioning the failure that is Ilum. But thats ok. Go ahead and don't read my post at all and instead just slap your knee and go on a mini-rant about how many issues you are aware of. You being aware of the issues doesn't change the fact that they aren't being fixed, smart guy.

Oh and by the way. I'm on hyperspace cannon, which hasn't been designated as an origin server OR a destination server despite multiple more populated servers receiving the "transmerge" treatment (such as the swiftsure, which is an origin server, despite being in the top 10 most populated US servers). So no. The population issue isn't fixed. Not for me, thats for damn sure.

You might want to give it a week or so before proclaiming the population problem fixed for everyone simply because Bioware is finally taking baby steps instead of just laying down in the fetal position and balling their eyes out.

No. I mean people who are not at the whims of huge developers and their advertising budgets.

Since when did being in the industry automatically mean that you're good at it?

There are a lot of bad games out there. Guess what? They were made by game designers.

You forget the largest benefit. people rechoosing their own names voluntarily rather than by force.

No server will go to a true 0 population they will need to devise some warehousing storage system for charachters on dead servers in hopes of attracting those players back and force merge nameshift some others as the next predictable step about 4-6 weeks out.

Doing a forced merge now the name complaints etc would be much stronger. Now you have a choice change server possibly name in order to play with people or stay on lesser populated. Making accepting the engatives free choice now was smart even if commonsense tells us it's at the barrel of a forced merge and name change later.

I am not calling you anything. Thats a strawman.

I am however attacking some of your opinions.

Are you saying that this server merge is the symbol of a healthy game?

I'm enjoying the game also....That doesn't mean you should ignore its flaws. That doesn't do anybody any good.

Do you need to be an Athlete to comment on sports? A military official to comment on foreign policy?

Everett and Lowe both have strong enough journalistic credentials to have a credible opinion...that doesn't mean their opinions are right, that's what makes them opinions. But these two are not blowhard nobodys.

Because I dont think GBTV is completely biased and slams Bioware "just because"

Wow. What a joke.