Server Mergers - Major Concern Over Inactive Players Being Distributed Among Servers

[Ashiee]

As a player with friends who would have come back when more content has been added to the game, I have huge concerns over the present server merger policy's being put in place.

During the transfer selection period indicated below, players will be able to select a destination World on the World Transfer Application Page. Players who do not select a destination World during this period will be automatically distributed across the Worlds.

I understand that they are not current paying customers and "SE doesn't need to care about people who are not currently subscribed" (which they do need to care, because they are potential paying customers). However, I have friends that have tried out this game, quit, and are waiting for it to get better to come back. Distributing inactive players around random worlds is a horrible idea.

I can see zero upside to randomly dispersing inactive players among random servers. People will find themselves on servers away from their friends. Current players who want their friends to come back will not be happy, friends of those current players will not be happy. I know the ability to play with friends is a deal breaker for a lot of people who want to come back, and not being able to get these players back over an issue like this would be a silly move on SE's part.

There are a few easy solutions that should be considered.

Solution#1: Allowing inactive players to choose their server when they decide to come back.
Players who want to are inactive will be in some sort of server limbo, and once they decide to reactivate, they can pick what server want to go to.

Solution#2: Funneling current servers into specific assigned worlds
Having a predictable List of where servers would be merged to would be nice.
For example, having Figaro and Saronia players who did not ask for a specific world assignments would automatically go to world#3. Letting us know something like this ahead of time would be important also, so we could all plan accordingly to pick servers which our friends would be on.

I have friends that would have come back, but they will not come back if they are not on the same server as their friends.