Locked servers

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Some suggestions:

Offer the ability to make characters on locked servers, but for a $20 extra fee (some are buying new accounts that are pre-unlocked anyway, cause people bought a ton of accounts when it was stated they were closing)

If players want to server transfer, just don't let them use the auction house, bazaars or trade for 2 months on the new server. That way players can't strip mine auction houses etc on smaller servers to resell so easily.

I used to server transfer to build emps among other things on occasion.

[Alhanelem]

Offer the ability to make characters on locked servers, but for a $20 extra fee (some are buying new accounts that are pre-unlocked anyway, cause people bought a ton of accounts when it was stated they were closing)

Offering any way around the lock defeats the purpose of the lock, which is to promote balanced player distribution.

The proper solution is to offer incentives to transfer off, not means to transfer in. They should be letting players on closed servers transfer off for free, and offering other incentives on top.

For the lock to be released, the population of the server needs to decrease. Thus, taking actions that will expedite the change in population to SE's target would be the most logical course of action.

I used to server transfer to build emps among other things on occasion.

If server populations were better balanced, doing so wouldn't be neccessary as every other server would have a better supply.

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They are never going to get balance.

They are losing revenue, there are no few players coming into servers (both of these are bad)

On Asura there are still new players coming in, and I stated how.

[Alhanelem]

They are losing revenue, there are no few players coming into servers (both of these are bad)

they're not losing revenue and aren't concerned at all.

The servers are closed because overpopulation is a legitimate problem that degrades everyone's experience in the form of lag, crowded grinding areas, wait times for content, etc. But everyone insists more people is more better.

That said you're right that they won't achieve any semblance of population balance, and it's simply becasue they're not willing to take the necessary steps to encourage people to transfer.

On Asura there are still new players coming in, and I stated how.

a fool and their money are soon parted. Buying old accounts with a character you didn't create just to get into Asura is many levels of stupid. Moreso depending on how much people are asking.

An actual new player on any of the other servers would almost be a celebrated event. And in most ways the experience will be better, and yet people are paying money for a downgrade.

[radar]

they're not losing revenue and aren't concerned at all.

Revenue is the number one concern of the game, it pays the wages of everyone assigned to it.

I used to spend money fairly often on server transfers, which I don't anymore. Also IF I wanted another character I would want it on the server I play on and I would pay more if I had to in order to get it.

[Alhanelem]

Revenue is the number one concern of the game, it pays the wages of everyone assigned to it.

If the server is at capacity, it is earning the maximum potential revenue it can. Exceeding the capacity downgrades the user experience and risks people quitting just as much as not being able to get in.

Their revenue potential is higher if people are populating other servers. And that's what they should be doing- incentivizing people to transfer off- and we need to be pressuring them to do this if you want fresh meat.

But in spite of them not handling that side of it very well, one by one other servers grew further until they got locked as well. Which makes it clear that the game was still expanding. and at least up to the point of the last closure, clearly their revenue has been increasing.

You speak like the game is losing money and in danger, but the reality is over the last year the player population has actually increased significantly, owing at least partly to the raid collaboration.

[radar]

I'm not saying they can't close the server or do whatever, I'm just saying they should offer access for a higher price. Just taking the example I stated, if a player really likes the game and decides to buy more accounts to multibox why not allow them to do that officially?

Instead they buy them from key resellers on ebay or whatever, just allow access for an extra $20-40