I think it's safe to say that not everyone playing right now up to the subscription implementation is going to pay, especially with all these new and shiny games being released during the holiday season. The issue then comes with server population. There are some servers that have a really low population even now.

Once you start paying, what happens when the server population drops below what you think is acceptable? If you invested a lot of time on your character, you probably wouldn't want to reroll on a higher population server. This can turn into a huge problem especially if they want people to actually subscribe and pay them.

I know in the MMO world, server transfers/merges have a stigma of "lolgameisdedbro" but really, when the population gets really low, it is discouraging to say the least.

Should they eventually implement some kind of free character transfer system? (Making people pay to transfer a character on top of a sub fee is probably the worst thing they could do at this point.)

Merging is iffy at this point, especially when 2.0/PS3 gets released and there is a flood of people but I suppose they could just open more servers then anyway.

Thoughts?