Max Capacity 42,000 Players,Coming out on Steam, Servers are gonna be packed!!!!!!!!!

[Littleman]

Originally Posted by infinite loop

This is my biggest fear that I wonder if they have even considered. They will either need to allow free (or cheap) server transfers, or refund SC to people willing to switch servers. Losing your reserved name would also be a possible consequence of this playing out.

I expect free transfers. The name thing is really just a risk that can't be dealt with by any means. Even early name reservation poses a (lesser) risk of one losing their name. I walk into every MMO with a new name in mind for this reason.

[Muro]

where do we actually download PS2 tomorrow? only from steam or do we have more options?

also can we server transfer when 1 server gets to full or w.e reason

[BlueSmiley]

Originally Posted by Hamma

It's inevitable we will see issues tomorrow, such is life with an MMO launch.

^ This.

[Rockstone]

With any luck, they'll increase the player limit even further beyond 2000 per continent, and keep the number of servers the same.

[brinkdadrink]

I am pretty sure they made it this time that your charicter name is reserved across all servers. I think I remember reading that somewhere. Which means if you want to change servers you will not be faced with people with the same name. Proboblly throw a fee or maybe a 1 time free transfer like WoW.

Not worried. I am guessing they learned from PS1 and the dozens of other games they have put out (havnt been the best but have really stepped up their game for this one.)

On top of that what everyone else said about having reserve servers.

[Bags]

Yeah, the name once taken is taken everywhere iirc.

[ericbsmith]

Your name is unique across all servers. During beta I tried duplicating my own characters names, as well as a friends, on different servers and it wouldn't let me.

What I don't understand is why they have made the characters Server bound rather than allowing you to log your character into whatever Server is available at the moment. Outfits would simply meet up on the "Markov" server or whatever. They're probably hoping to do what WoW and some other games do and charge a premium for moving your character to another server at a later date. Early on, though, it probably will cause many issues as Outfits try to gather on one server. I know for my group of friends we plan on making backup characters on a different server at a later date, that way if our chosen server is full we can at least play the backups.

[Ghoest9]

Im hoping that characters arent server bound when the game goes live.
After GW2 server bound characters from now on are basically a contrived joke.

[Bags]

I sent this tweet... see if I get response

@planetside2 @mhigby @PS_TRay since names are unique, any plan for like free server x-fer during the initial crazynes incase of separation?

[Conq]

Outfit names and tags should be cross server as well, imo.

[Timujingeo]

I say pack the servers; a target rich environment of zerglings is a wonderful thing...

[Sledgecrushr]

Having unique game wide names is the first step tiny step towards inter server warfare. I hope this game is a smashing sucess so all the possibilities can be explored.