When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

Anyone feel it will go from
OMG Server Merges
to
OMG Server Merges

And they are. They would have to be clinically insane not to be. It is their livelihoods on the line, after all.

And as an aside, there is no evidence that "droves of folks are leaving." In fact, the information we have available to us demonstrates that player activity continues to remain fairly steady.

I type how I speak. The character was based on actual observed mannerisms, after all.

I am starting to think that they don't have the drive since their stocks are tanking, players are leaving, and they didn't make the profit that they predicted.

If that's what you truly believe, then you should consider this game a lost cause; if the developers have no drive, no amount of suggestions or demands made by the player community will have any impact on the game's direction.

If this is what you believe, you should cancel your subscription and move on.

This is the most recent and most complete information I have been able to find on the subject. I post this stuff for the people, like myself, who like to be as informed as possible and can handle that information. Sadly, I realize that this type of information also breeds negativity. Anyway, here it is, an interview from NowGamer.com with Daniel Erickson. The full intereview can be read here.

I encourage you to read the full article to avoid taking any of this out of context, but here are all Daniel Erickson's comments on the subject:

One of the problems we’re running into right now is kind of a classic MMO problem, which is that our overall population of players has not changed, but our peak concurrent users has changed.

As the game goes on and people relax a little bit, not playing the game 7-8 hours a day, you see a lot less crowds especially in certain places. Right now we’ve got our character transfer stuff underway on this side. It hasn’t rolled out yet - it will soon, to allow people to move to servers that will be better to their liking, get communities together. Long term we actually have to look at servers as a whole. The nice part about it is we have doubled how many people we can put on each server since launch. The down side is that at launch, because people were upset at the long queues we erred on the side of opening up more space. What that has now done is separated our player-base into a larger group.

It’s trying to figure out what’s that perfect place where you can handle a big event when everybody decides they want to come back and play, but you can also keep a population that is robust and healthy during the day. I think right now it’s safe to say we are definitely leaning more towards the idea that it’s probably okay to have a queue occasionally on a special thing if it means you’ve got a stronger day-to-day population.

It’s not possible to please all of the people all of the time anywhere on the internet, about anything. We know that. But they’re not wrong. All of the solutions they’re talking about are all solutions that are on the table here. They’re also all tech solutions, so none of them are going to show up tomorrow.

We have everything in the works so we can use it, this is not something that we are ignoring. I know there’s a lot of frustration from the fans because they think ‘hey, we’re not getting feedback’ and the reason for that really bluntly is that once we’ve answered the question, if the answer has not changed, answering it again every week doesn’t actually help, and drowns out people asking other questions.

Are server merges a possible solution? Absolutely. Are character transfers a possible solution? They’re a definite solution and we’re going after that first. But all things are on the table. Our entire goal is to make sure that players are playing in the environment they want to, with the type of community and the size of population they want, and we are driving towards all of that.

So, yes, they are working on it. They are aware of it. They are trying to implement changes.

OK...best idea I have read from you yet.

splitting hairs? what's the diff? in one case you force people to switch and in the other case you allow them migrate freely.

sounds like the migrate feature offers the greatest flexibility. I, for one, have a char on another server and I would like to move him to join my legacy. a forced server merge would not allow that.

something has to be done. i left a number of the heroric missions on the table on the later planets because it was so hard to find a group, read hoth onward. there were a number of heroric missions that i went back to on some of the earlier planets, same reason, no population, but I could complete them due to leveling advantages.

Needless to say, my social score is a bit weak because of this.

There will be a server merge when both of the following conditions are true:

1) BioWare has implemented the technology to support it.
2) EA gives BioWare its blessing.

The latter may take (considerably) longer than the former due to the expected impact the perception of a server merge might have on EA's stock price.

In other words, no time soon.

You all should know by now.....the biggest threads are about server change and bio has offered no answers that i have seen. So why do the threads keep coming? CAUSE IT NEEEDS TO HAPPEN! but bio dont have answers to this one question even tho serv trans on asain servs were no prob.

Except that I just posted 6 paragraphs of a BW response. And that was just the most recent one. I could also post some James Ohlen and Stephen Reid responses to it. I might even be able to dig up a Damion Schubert for you.

Lets do a little research first, hmm? Especially when your post is contradicted by one only four posts above yours. Just saying...