Server Merge Please

[solracht]

I think their best bet to secure the survival of the game once it becomes better is to market it as an entire new game when the PS3 version is released, and that can't be accomplished without giving most new players a fresh start.

I honestly doubt our current servers won't end up being merged sooner or later, with the old ones being reopened when the PS3 game comes out.

[Dreamer]

I suggest we discuss alternative methods of populating the servers; not mergers.

I...agree!? o.O

Anyways, as another poster has already said, there's a high probability that they would have to reopen them for the PS3 release. Even if it's only a temporary situation to conserve power, you still have the problem of managing character and Linkshell name overlaps.

[TheVedis]

server merger = even less space to cramp your retainers into certain wards...yeah just what i wanted

but i doubt they will merge til ps3 release if even then

[Kazimir]

It would be nice to merge to increase population, but they would just have to reopen them later. That would cause the other servers to have too low of a population.

[Zenaku]

They should have not allow us to make a world and just give us world pass that would have made things better making players go to low population world so they get more players.

[wolfwing]

Maybe a thought is allow for tempooary transfer to any server, we could all consolidate into a single server, then get returned back home when the game gets more active.

[Arcell]

Maybe a thought is allow for tempooary transfer to any server, we could all consolidate into a single server, then get returned back home when the game gets more active.

Except most people wouldn't move back, they'd just stay on the populated server leaving the PS3 players to populate the ghost town servers.

I still say their best move is to hold off on any server transfers/merges until after the population stabilizes after PS3 launch.

[wolfwing]

Except most people wouldn't move back, they'd just stay on the populated server leaving the PS3 players to populate the ghost town servers.

I still say their best move is to hold off on any server transfers/merges until after the population stabilizes after PS3 launch.

I agree, most of my friends are on my server now, but they are away so I wouldn't mind moving tempoarily to find more people, but realize a full server merge right now is bad idea.

[Reika]

I say this should be considered a few months after the PS3 release. If the servers are still underpopulated after that, merger would be good.

[kukurumei]

Depends on the bleed every month. A human doesn't need to bleed out every drop of blood to die. At some point, the life support system will simply fail due to lack of it. Same with the server.

When you speak of short term health vs long term health. You have to consider you won't have a long term at the rate it's going.

Once a server is dead...it's dead. Resuscitating it is going to be very very hard. Gambling on how much population the server can sustain before everyone gives up is risky business.