Information on 1.21 Next week?

[Agoven]

I'm curious...because it's a little tricky what SE has done. Server mergers on March 1st...

Let's say scenario goes like this...We know there are lots of people potentially waiting for this patch to come back. If a lot of people pay and become active again, how will SE handle merging 2 servers if suddenly this patch spurs a lot of returns? They might not have enough room to merge two servers.

I would suspect this patch would need to be released by the 28th so SE could sort out the server merger mess. If it's after the server mergers that this patch is released and peoples return to locked out servers and they can't join their friends that will be quite the interesting messy scenario.

CORRECTION: I guess I should fix my comment since server mergers aren't actually happening on the 1st of March. That whole server merging thing is a mess of confusion. So anyways this post is sorta moot sorry.

[Avraym]

I'm curious...because it's a little tricky what SE has done. Server mergers on March 1st...

Let's say scenario goes like this...We know there are lots of people potentially waiting for this patch to come back. If a lot of people pay and become active again, how will SE handle merging 2 servers if suddenly this patch spurs a lot of returns? They might not have enough room to merge two servers.

I would suspect this patch would need to be released by the 28th so SE could sort out the server merger mess. If it's after the server mergers that this patch is released and peoples return to locked out servers and they can't join their friends that will be quite the interesting messy scenario.

I would say they made room for returners in their calculations in relation to server merge size.

Everyone know's people who left were either waiting for 1.21 (Jobs) or 2.0 release.

To punish returning players would have to be a giant screw up. Although, their payment interface setup does just that.