Consolidated Post: APAC/Oceanic Server Concerns

Plz BW..... don't do it D:

So instead of merging the Australian players they will keep us split into 3 groups and send us off to try and help fill in the dead times on the US servers. So we'd get about the same regular Australian population to play with (minus the multitude of players that will be quitting over this), PLUS we get the added benefit of playing with 5-10 times the latency. Awesome solution that absolutely sounds like what we all asked for.

More than likely it solely came down to cost. They have these US servers they are already paying for and maintaining, and during our Australian/NZ peak time the server numbers are vastly depleted. Transfer the remaining loyal APAC players and keep charging them for an even more degraded experience.

Thanks BW, very decent of you.

This is wonderful news for the server transfers.

I know it sucks at the same time but considering that the server populace is popular on those servers. I just hope you guys at Bioware would be able to compensate with the latency issues and of course grant us free transfers but the question is now. What's going to happen about our current character names? Are we going to lose those too?

I hope they fix the transfer tool because as of today you still can't copy over the extra cargo bay slots even though it mails you the gear from within them but you lose the extra slots.

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Eric you do realize that so many more people would have come back to APAC had a merge followed. Instead we all got shafted and 95% will be unsubbing. I seriously hope you go back to that chalkboard and draw up a better solution.

You're not the only one buddy. I for one am happy this is happening. Glad to finally be able to play my mains on a populated server. Queue times begone!

Not at all phased by ping increase, as far as I'm concerned it will hardly be an issue and all these people qq'ing will quiet down and all will be well.

I think a better option than merging to the US is simply giving all APAC players a free transfer to anywhere.

But that's a messy step to the beautiful goal of ONE (1) consolidated APAC server.

In my mind the wise course of action would be to firstly;

1) Merge the APAC servers into one.
2) Give time for the dust to settle.
3) If for some reason it simply isn't providing the gaming experience players on the APAC servers are accustomed to, or a large part of the population abandons the game (which from what I've seen in the chat is going to happen anyway if they merge to NA westcoast servers), then and only then, merge to the NA servers.

At least they will have given the APAC regional players a chance to play on a local server, and not just close up shop and loose half the player base here... because of an unwanted merge...

Checked ping on bastion ....................... eat a bag of d.icks EAware you c.unts

/UNSUBBED

f.uck yas later