Consolidated Post: APAC/Oceanic Server Concerns

THIS ^

Way to drive the customers away BIO

PLEASE SIGN

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/...em-into-1.html

That is just a strong reaction from an angry community. EA should take some heat for this. The APAC community has been treated us like second class citizens since beta.

Limited access for APAC players in beta
Classed as "red zoners" at launch and made to wait 3 months for the game to launch in our region
When the character slots increased on NA and EU servers to 12 slots we had to demand we get that also
EA ignored the population issues for months and compounded the problem so more and more people left
Now they are shutting APAC servers down

When EA has this track record with our community you wonder why they get this strong reaction and why the population ran for the hills in the first place. I appreciate them giving us local servers but they are taking that away.

I get that you don't have a vested interest or don't really care but all I'm saying is to get some perspective, you're not on EA's payroll so don't act like it.

Agreed; A point I made in another thread is that we are not looking at an issue of marginal profitably. What we are looking at is an issue of ROI-thresholds and the plan for long-term viability in this title.

Quite frankly I bet EA already has an APAC-attrition number built into their projections.

Whatever the detailed internal analysis came to fundamentally EA has determined their long-term strategy for this game to return the expected ROI does not include investment in localized APAC servers.

They retain those subscriptions they can, moving them onto existing and therefore fixed or at least budgeted cost NA servers, and make the title a little leaner and centralize their player base on only two-sets of continental servers.

peace is a lie... And bio are lying to our faces... So we are passionate...

3pm Sydney time..
school just finished..so kids arent home..
dayshift workrs who start at 6am probably are, but are most likely having a drink
office workers still at work.

Numbers Imp side
Fleet 53
Korribaan 35
Hutta 11
Dromund Kaas 45
Taris 11
Hoth 14
Corelia 4
Ilum 5
Quesh 2
Tatooine 11
Balmora 24
Alderaan 18
Nar Shaddaa 16
Voss 13
Belsavis 18

so a total of 286 ppl online during non-peak hours excluding people doing ship missions, Warzones and flashpoints.

Seems like a lot more than you reckon than are on during peak times.

Right off the bat, you have failed to understand what I am implying as a strategy. This is a low cost, potential PR boon that can fly in the face of consumer opinion on EA. Right now people begrudgingly hand their money over to EA because they control key licenses and the odd successful bit of IP. Fifa, Madden and a host of other sports franchises speak to that.

I actually remember a time when they were recognised for fostering creativity and pushing forward as a market leader, rather than a massive cash cow with monopolistic properties.

There's a reason why investor concerns should always be looked at with a pinch of salt, the least of which is to do with the fundamentally understood semi-strong efficiency theory of markets. A lack of corporate transparency, which EA is renowned for, causes a slump like you describe. What's worse is that some of the people in charge of the purse strings appear to lack an understanding of the industry as a whole, and cling to AAA products exclusively, which defeats the point of even being in a creative space.

I'm not advocating throwing caution to the wind, but only churning out carbon copies is quite clearly killing brands and development studios the world over in this space, and EA is naive enough to think that this alone is a winner. Relying on investors who more often than not are advised by people who have a rudimentary understanding of the underpinning of such markets when they are not based around traditional resources is a doomed prospect.

Attempting to offer an educated summary to these investors would serve them well, but they fail to offer this here, and they fail to offer this in general. They talk the financial language with little colour in the way of industry speak and knowledge. A total disconnect from the production line to corporate dooms any company, and that is what you are witnessing.

I feel like we don't have all the answers required to see this logic, and myself and many others simply wish to hear/see more. I think if the answers were as simple as you claim, they would have outright said it's not financially viable.

What stuns me is that both you and they think there is something of significantly greater return to be done with the resources.

They have shown an inability to dissuade themselves from maximising the bottom line within a 6 month window, because apparently every last penny counts to investors on a quarterly report, even when you can more than adequately account for budgetary increases.

Basically what you're implying repeatedly is that the APAC servers are making a staggering loss, and the metrics point to people pouring into NA servers any way, so let's boot off the last 10,000. How were they making money before? Were they projecting these three servers would be constantly full, even when there had been no new content for 5 months?

How stupid are these people? How stupid are you?

Awesome can't wait for those numbers to further boost the already healthy harbinger server

Remember professional help is only a phone call away. If you want, you can live an emotionally healthy life, free from the desperate feeling of being totally unloved.

Just reach out. There are people who care.

wel quite obviously your a troll..but you can keep waiting because the consesus in gen chat on fleet is you'll be lucky to even get 10% of those numbers..oh you'll get the characters which will take up disk space on the server, but you wont get the players.

do u have a common sense?
u do realize players live in different time zone , right?
so u wont get much boost at ur peak time.