News: Server Merges Incoming

[CrazEpharmacist]

Well Smedly just gained a lot of respect from me. Really good move, glad they are finally doing it. Can't wait to get some big battles, may even buy some station cash now :P

[Gimpylung]

This is good news for the game and the existing playerbase, and as was stated earlier, consolidates things and hopefully will allow for a more committed playerbase, as opposed to the curious types who played it for 2hours at launch because it was f2p.

I'm concerned how it will be perceived beyond us however. Generally when I hear about server merges in an MMO that I'm not involved it, it gives me the impression the game is in trouble and to avoid it.

Hopefully, SOE have a strategy to counter this impression.

[james]

Originally Posted by Gimpylung

This is good news for the game and the existing playerbase, and as was stated earlier, consolidates things and hopefully will allow for a more committed playerbase, as opposed to the curious types who played it for 2hours at launch because it was f2p.

I'm concerned how it will be perceived beyond us however. Generally when I hear about server merges in an MMO that I'm not involved it, it gives me the impression the game is in trouble and to avoid it.

Hopefully, SOE have a strategy to counter this impression.

The game is in slight troble looking at player numbers, the steam numbers are bombing. This is a right step to stop the bleeding though

[IceColdBlood]

Us Briggs players are going to be very left out...

[Sonny]

I'm really happy about this. I hope that this will stop them bleeding away players on the low-pop servers and give everyone the chance to have a good fight.

Nice one devs, once again!

[CrazEpharmacist]

Originally Posted by IceColdBlood

Us Briggs players are going to be very left out...

Ah, you're right. There's no one to merge into for you guys. That kinda sucks..

[Hmr85]

Awesome news. It should make the fights a lot more interesting. Also, I can't wait to hopefully finally get off Indar.

[Riekopo]

2 servers per region?

[Silent Thunder]

Glad to see they're doing this. Problem with this type of game is unlike PVE MMOs, low server pops basically kill the funfactor. Cant really go with 5 of your buddies on a dead continent and have fun the way you can in an empty area in WoW (Or godforbid DC Universe Online XD ) for instance.

[Bobby Shaftoe]

Bad news.

Current game is Indar-side.

Pops from merged servers will still want to play Indar-side, now Indar-side becomes Queue-side for those that want to play Indar-side, not Amerish/Esamir-side.

They can't play Indar-side, they stop playing, even if the pops are up, they can't play where they want.

You can say what you like about how you play the game but the majority of people are playing Indar-side and don't care.

I reckon there will be a larger than usual weekly drop in total pops a week after the merges.

[Wargrim]

Finally! I just hope they will not just merge the lowest pop servers, but we will also get some fresh blood on Waterson.

[MrBloodworth]

Originally Posted by Bobby Shaftoe

Bad news.

Current game is Indar-side.

Pops from merged servers will still want to play Indar-side, now Indar-side becomes Queue-side for those that want to play Indar-side, not Amerish/Esamir-side.

They can't play Indar-side, they stop playing, even if the pops are up, they can't play where they want.

You can say what you like about how you play the game but the majority of people are playing Indar-side and don't care.

I reckon there will be a larger than usual weekly drop in total pops a week after the merges.

A Que on indar ensures play on the other contents. Indar is the worst map by far IMO. It should never have left beta.

[Bobby Shaftoe]

Originally Posted by MrBloodworth

A Que on indar ensures play on the other contents. Indar is the worst map by far IMO. It should never have left beta.

It only ensures play on Esamir/Amerish if people want to play there, as shown by in game pop dist. they want Indarside.

I've not played on any other continent than Indar since the start of the year in the dozen or so times I've bothered logging in, there's no reason to, similarily, there's no reason to play Indarside BUT that's what your average player wants to play.

It's like in PS1 when asking people to recall to help defend/resecure a continent, the universal reply was: "Why? I'm having fun here." Everyone knows you can only ever have fun at one fight, right? (sarcasm)

Their logic is going to be: Hey, big fight on Indar, everyone must be having lots of fun there, I know I always do... hmm Esamir/Amerish have some fights but I don't like them, I'll sit in the queue and wait for the fight I know I will have fun at.

So some will sit in the queue, some will go fight on Esamir/Amerish and some will log off.

[MrBloodworth]

People play on indar because that's where the fights are. Your conclusion that people will log off if they can't play on indar is a fantasy. Antecedal: My entire outfit is tired of playing on indar and prefer amerish more. We play indar because that's where the fights are, no other reason.

[KaskaMatej]

Originally Posted by Bobby Shaftoe

It only ensures play on Esamir/Amerish if people want to play there, as shown by in game pop dist. they want Indarside.

No, people want a fight and only fight can be found on Indar. People are getting sick of Indar and because they can't find a fight anywhere else than on Indar, they leave.