Consolidated Post: APAC/Oceanic Server Concerns

INCREASED LATENCY WILL RUIN PVP for anyone who plays
What you seem to fail to understand is that people who play high-end PVP will be at a distinct disadvantage when playing against any US players.
Basically you will RUIN the game for them... that's not just 1 full PVP sever... but also a large portion of the Dalbora server who PVP... I am not sure how many in PR community PVP
You say YOU WANT TO BE FAIR TO EVERYONE'S GAME STYLE, but really you are only PANDERING to those who play RP or PVE Flash points and questing.
YOU WILL LOSE MORE PLAYERS THAN YOU REALISE
You will find all the Big PVP Guilds will probably stop playing and find other games to PVP in... and Guilds that have a mix of PVP and PVE players will lose half their members and probably fail.

THERE is a solution and it is SO EASY I can't believe you aren't going to implement it.
- RP players play the game so they can talk to each other in the game and "live" the character... Why not just create a different chat channel for them so that they can continue to play this way... it might even allow them to try PVP if they so choose.
- PVP players play the game to play other players. This can still happen on a PVE server because IF you are a PVP player you CAN flag yourself for PVP. This would allow other PVPer's to see they want to play as a PVPer
You could ALSO open up some more map area's on the Planets that are dedicated to PVP, also having a Duelling area on the Fleet would be good. AND they could also have a separate chat channel.
- PVE players can play both PVE, PVP and RP if they so choose. Consolidating the 3 APAC servers into 1 PVE server STILL ALLOWS ALL 3 GAME STYLES with little or no change in the community game play. This by far more fair to everyone who plays the game. Sure there maybe some small changes, but they can be worked around.

BUT moving all servers to North America is ludicrous. You will lose the population of 1 and a half servers because high-end PVP will no-long be viable... WHY DO THIS.... ISN'T IT COUNTERPRODUCTIVE???

IF you concentrated on fixing the in game problems and listening to the community regarding this, you wouldn't have driven so many players away from the game and the issue of population would not exist.

PLEASE RECONSIDER YOUR DECISION

I for one will leave the game if PVP becomes unplayable... I am sure you will hear this a lot from anyone who mainly plays PVP

I have leased servers for businesses, and while it may be different for servers of this scale, in my experiance you lease the hardware from a business that then is contracted to make sure they are maintained, powered, and if there are problems a technician is supplied to the site in a timely fashion for hardware issues, while you control the server remotely. And the APAC servers opened in APRIL last year, that is 12 months ago (or near enough to with the move to be pre-2.0 to keep us playing for what we already paid for rather than permenant reactionary unsub).

Even more likely is that the APAC servers were leased from EA which has Australian based servers for other games.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had descided they were going to close these servers at the end of contract well before F2P, back when they cut all advertising for APAC for the game.

Oh wow. A petition? Because that's going to do anything lol. They wouldn't of posted that we're getting moved to the American servers unless they were certain of doing it.
A petition won't do anything but waste your time lol. They don't care what you all think about it and frankly I think it's childish the reaction you're all giving. Sure a merge would have been sweet but for such low populations in apac servers it wouldn't be worth the money keeping a server in Australia.
The ping increase won't be as bad as you're crying about and we get to play in servers that have people in it.
I'm glad they're sending my characters to servers where there won't be huge wait queues.
Good luck trying to make eaware care about a few list subs.

@Talimar A ping time is a round-trip time...

@PPAlien Eric Musco is not an executive.

haha omg they can't be serious wake up idiots, EAWARE has made their decision. END OF DISCUSSION

all this whinging on the forums isnt going to change anything if you're not happy with the solution then by all means leave and stop posting garbage on the forums making the rest of the APAC community look bad.

But if you're like myself then just be happy that something is being done and we can now play with other people because less than 100 people on either fleet is a dead server, I know Dalborra looked ok but it was losing players and heaps of AU players have just re rolled on the US servers because unlike you they realise actually playing the game with a good pop is far more important than ping, playstyle and timezone isssue

Let me be the first to actually THANK EAWARE for doing something, because you all sound like a bunch of children who didnt get what they want for christmas (just be thankful you got anything at all)

haha omg they can't be serious wake up idiots, EAWARE has made their decision. END OF DISCUSSION

all this whinging on the forums isnt going to change anything if you're not happy with the solution then by all means leave and stop posting garbage on the forums making the rest of the APAC community look bad.

But if you're like myself then just be happy that something is being done and we can now play with other people because less than 100 people on either fleet is a dead server, I know Dalborra looked ok but it was losing players and heaps of AU players have just re rolled on the US servers because unlike you they realise actually playing the game with a good pop is far more important than ping, playstyle and timezone isssue

Let me be the first to actually THANK EAWARE for doing something, because you all sound like a bunch of children who didnt get what they want for christmas (just be thankful you got anything at all)

Relax guys - due to the difference in time zones, PvP will be against drunk and insomniac Americans.

Should be a cake walk - don't know what your complaining about.....