[Dev 1024] Server transfer & or Merging

[AsterBarnivere]

If I recall it's about 2k yen a month, which is equivalent of $30 USD. Still, way too expensive regardless. 30 yen would actually keep people playing through those problems haha.

lol Thank you for the correction. (It was rumored a few months ago that TERA was to be $30 dollars a month) xD good thing it wasn't true.

[Pyrix]

If I recall it's about 2k yen a month, which is equivalent of $30 USD. Still, way too expensive regardless. 30 yen would actually keep people playing through those problems haha.

If Tera pulls that shit here in the US with the addition of their unreasonable Elin censorship I'm hoping beyond hope the game dies very soon after launch.

[Sophia]

i agree they need to either add the option to switch servers or merge the small servers together somehow Karnak for example has a tiny population albeit there are wore off servers but Karnak is definatly among the low population servers i want lots more people to play with

[Eekiki]

They cannot worry about server population until after the PS3 release. It's a waste of time and resources to shut down servers only to have to reload and redeploy them later.

The solution to low server population is not to merge and shut down servers. The solution is to make the game great so more people play it.

A server merge would mean SE is officially admitting the game is failing. If they shut down one server they may as well shut them all down.

And despite what the OP says, Wutai is NOT "quieting down". It's one of the more populated servers, and from what I've seen it's growing.

I'm all for character transfers (especially in Foulu's case), but again, that can't happen until the PS3 version is released and established.

Also, where are you getting dev1024 for this thread? dev1024 is about crowd control actions in party play (i.e. AoE abilities). It's got nothing to do with server population.

[Pyrix]

Glad I'm on Cornelia. I always get a kick out of seeing "Welcome to Cornelia!"

[Eekiki]

Glad I'm on Cornelia. I always get a kick out of seeing "Welcome to Cornelia!"

At least you know you got the Star Fox team watchin' your back!

[Antanias]

On topic: There won't be server merges for a very long time. PS3 players will likely flood the low-pop worlds once they get access to ff14, and let's not forget about returning PC players once they find the game to their liking as well.

[Forerunner]

Transfer pl0x. More EU peeps to play with.

[Arcell]

Well, I've said this in every single "Server merges please" thread so I guess I'll say it again:

It would be an incredibly foolish move to merge/allow transfers currently.

1. Ghost towns. If you allow transfers then the low population servers will be left with no one at all. This wouldn't seem like a problem now but what PS3 players are going to want to populate a completely dead server?

2. Over population. As a result of the above the current mid/high population servers would then become full. This means that some players would not be given a chance to move to a decent population server, PS3 players would be forced to populate dead servers.

3. Merge problems. If they merge servers now but come PS3 launch the population exceeds the new server load then they must make more servers again. So then at that point they've spent money to merge them and now re-open them, not necessarily a good thing.

The logical solution (to me) would be to wait until after PS3 launch population stabilizes, then allow transfers and/or merge as necessary. If they were to do this beforehand it would be premature and just cause more problems. I'm sorry that you're on a now-low population server but you must think of the bigger picture here. If it were not for PS3 launch it wouldn't be a problem.

[Fouluryu]

Well, I've said this in every single "Server merges please" thread so I guess I'll say it again:

It would be an incredibly foolish move to merge/allow transfers currently.

1. Ghost towns. If you allow transfers then the low population servers will be left with no one at all. This wouldn't seem like a problem now but what PS3 players are going to want to populate a completely dead server?

2. Over population. As a result of the above the current mid/high population servers would then become full. This means that some players would not be given a chance to move to a decent population server, PS3 players would be forced to populate dead servers.

3. Merge problems. If they merge servers now but come PS3 launch the population exceeds the new server load then they must make more servers again. So then at that point they've spent money to merge them and now re-open them, not necessarily a good thing.

The logical solution (to me) would be to wait until after PS3 launch population stabilizes, then allow transfers and/or merge as necessary. If they were to do this beforehand it would be premature and just cause more problems. I'm sorry that you're on a now-low population server but you must think of the bigger picture here. If it were not for PS3 launch it wouldn't be a problem.

I personally feel that your theory is off. I have some support to this game to some extent but you have to look at the statistics. Before the search function was taken out, the population was low on most servers. Wutai has sunk deeply to a low population than what it was before. It wouldn't cause problems, it would resolve the biggest problems so people would be encouraged to come out and play.