Hey everyone,

 

I have an update for you on our long term plans for the APAC servers. Before I do that though I want to let you know up front that we still have quite a bit of work to do to make this happen so I cannot provide any timeframes for you today.

 

We know that when we asked you, the community, for your opinions on what we should do, we received quite a variety of suggested solutions. Some people wanted to be able to transfer to higher populated North American servers, some suggested merging the three existing APAC servers into one large APAC server, and then there were a host of other ideas as well. However, the one common theme from the suggestions, which we heard clearly, is that everyone wants the opportunity to play on higher populated servers. With this in mind, we have evaluated all of the options and determined that the best solution, that will offer the best long term play experience, is to merge the APAC servers with higher populated North American servers.

 

Getting to the point of being able to merge the servers is going to be a multistep process. First off we need to update our Free Character Transfer System to include the game changes that we have made recently along with the upcoming changes in Game Update 2.0 and the Digital Expansion: Rise of the Hutt Cartel. We will then offer Free Character Transfers to anyone currently playing on an APAC server to a North American server of the same gameplay type, specifically:

• Mastar Dar’Nala (PvP) will transfer to The Bastion (PvP)
  
• Gav Daragon (RP-PvE) will transfer to Begeren Colony (RP-PvE)
  
• Dalborra (PvE) will transfer to The Harbinger (PvE)
  

We will also need to update our server merge technology at which point we will ultimately merge each of the APAC servers into the corresponding North American servers as indicated above. We are moving as quickly as we can to make this happen, but we want to make sure this is a smooth transition, so it will take some time.

 

Why did we decide not to merge the three APAC servers into one large APAC server? We decided this for two main reasons. 1. The issue in doing this is that two play-styles (PvE, PvE-RP, or PvP) would need to sacrifice their desired play-style in order to have one server with a higher population. We feel that it is important that each player is allowed to continue to play SWTOR in their preferred play-style. Therefore, accommodating all the existing play-styles was a primary goal. By allowing you to move to a NA West server, you will be able to keep your play-style. 2. The move to North American servers better delivers on our ultimate goal of providing the best play experience, with the most possible players, long term.

 

I will continue to provide updates as soon as I have them. I know the next big question will be “when” and as soon as I have that information to release, I will do so. Thank you for your continued patience on this. I know it took longer than you would have liked but I intend to continue to give you information as soon as I can!

 

-eric

 

 

 

i don't know how i feel about this just yet, i hope the ping will be tolerable

Edited March 25, 2013 by sootley

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=534412&page=318

 

i don't know how i feel about this just yet, i hope the ping will be tolerable

 

Welcome.

Edited March 25, 2013 by iheartnyc

what a joke, we waited all this damn time and those idiots screw us over with this? Yay for ping monsters

 

 

At least no we can basically piece together what went on in these "discussions" concerning the matter.

 

For months they sat around eating as much food as they could possibly fit in, until they were all suffering from severe constipation. Then they knew what the solution should be.

 

They decided to take a mild laxative, drop their pants, and squat over the heads of the apac players.

 

This is our reward for being patient with those clowns all this time. -____-

Edited March 25, 2013 by Paelo

sub cancelled lol this is a joke

Subscription cancelled.

 

Milked us to the very end and had the nerve to actually appear to be considering what the community wanted.

Yeah don't think I can go back to playing on US latency. Probably a good thing to end my SWTOR career here heh.

 

They probably decided it was more cost effective to shut down the APAC servers. I like how they asked for suggestions in that thread then basically ignored the 90% majority that begged for APAC mergers and just went with whatever that wanted.

I had to check that it wasn't April 1st...surely this is a joke. Why even ask what the people want, only to deny the majority vote. I'm unsubbing for the first time since launch. I don't think I've been let down by a games developers so many consecutive times, but bw has continued to make the incorrect decision time and time again.

When BW decides to give us something, expect to lose something in return (most of the time something you hold dear)

 

In this case is our ping.

 

Totally disappointed, can't see reasons to stay sub'd like this.

Edited March 26, 2013 by Altaress

Welcome.

 

Its not welcome you ****, its goodbye!

Lol lets fu.ck this place up! Going to be making so many threads before my sub runs out

I am not calm

moved to NA? seriously? I played this game cause of the low ping! great solution BW, havent played SWTOR that long but now I know why most of the old player hates you

They decided that "keeping our play-styles" was more important than latency?? So we all have to transfer back again whence we came. This is completely ridiculous. I don't understand this "play styles" **** at all - if you don't want to be attacked by other players in open world, toggle your damn pvp flag. There are so many ways that an APAC server merge could have worked - instead we all suffer because 200+ ping just doesn't cut it for effective pvp (or effective anything for that matter). I'd happily change my "play-style" in exchange for lower ping, and I'm sure many others would as well. No one "role-plays" in a warzone anyway ffs.

No one "role-plays" in a warzone anyway ffs.

 

ROFL! anyway, yea completely agree gladly change my playstyle to get better ping

Instead or rawting us of everything, and lets face the fact. There has been no support for the players on our servers, or you wouldn't have screwed us over in the first place and maybe actually got off your *********** asses and actually ADVERTISE the game here in Australia, the server's would have increased in population. Merging the 3 servers should have been the solution for now and seeing where that went. instead you guys took the easy way out shame on you, You may of created the game but without our subs you wouldn't have a game and all your doing now is killing the game more. Instead of thinking you know what the players want how about actually listening instead of pretending to hear. You want more population on the Australia and Pacific servers. How about actually market it here correctly I'm sure you guys pushed it over there yet all i see is maybe 1 small add on game sites etc. STOP BEING SO *********** LAZY.

 

Foxtra

This only benefits bioware from a financial point of view, as they no longer need to fund money toward upkeep of the apac servers. Not to mention, this fix isn't even going to fix population issues as the US peak times differ to ours. So basically, these cu.nts have taken our predicament, and used it as a way to better their own situation. What a fuc.king joke. I'd rather there be no change made at all to be honest.

I was ready to rejoice as I clicked on this thread as I assumed we were finally getting our merge. Now I'm most likely going to unsub.

 

GG bioware.

Also a refund on the expansion would be greatly appreciated.

Well done bioware. You have absolutely no clue.

Also a refund on the expansion would be greatly appreciated.

 

Lets try for a refund....

 

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=615263

I was ready to rejoice as I clicked on this thread as I assumed we were finally getting our merge. Now I'm most likely going to unsub.

 

GG bioware.

 

Damn Pex, I will miss you bro. You and the boys were the reason I stayed in the group man And damn you did a great job at it.

 

Ill head to Bastion and see what happens. Bathilas Server on WoW wasnt too bad for raiding and for me now, there are more options / more population as I was concerned about the size and quality of the MDN community.

 

To the PVP'ers, well, I do feel ya. PVP ended up being not my game at all, but I feel for you guys.

Damn Pex, I will miss you bro. You and the boys were the reason I stayed in the group man And damn you did a great job at it.

 

obviously the main reason I have to consider what happens. And something the guild has to discuss.

screw that. the game experience for me is in low latency. Done and Done

Doing it this way they will save money on server hosting but they will easily lose 10x more accounts than just doing what the community wanted and merging the APAC servers. Keeping play styles intact is a load of BS. It's all money. PVE - There is barely any world PVP in this game unless you are in the designated PVP areas. It was exactly the same at launch on the over populated / server queued Swiftsure Server.

RP - pffft. Give them a channel or something.

 

This is more than likely an unsub for me too.

Edited March 26, 2013 by Rockapesmakr

Such a shame to see, im going to hang around and run thru HC on the US servers to remember what this game as an MMO was like, then i'll prob be gone