Stop demanding more servers

[Abriael]

Adding servers to cope with launch congestion is just a surefire way to get ghost town servers afterwards.

The launch rush always has a limited duration. Once it's done people start logging in less, causing servers to have less concurrent population.

Developers that cave into the demand for more servers *always* find themselves with underpopulated ghost towns afterwards.

It's simply inevitable, as the launch rush never lasts forever.

[Renen]

True... but we DO need that afk disconnect... atleast for a bit

Right now people arent logging out because there's a queue, and there's a queue because no one logs out.

[Tareel]

They need to open more servers so people can play, then when the wave passes offer free transfers and then close the empty servers. Or figure out an overflow system. People wont pay for a service they can't use, period.

[Renen]

And how will u transfer from those "temp" servers? Thats not a good idea. Just gotta add the AFK system. Overflow is nice, but no one but GW2 seems to be using it that much.

[Lucroarna]

I actually think it's breaching my right to play the game as long as you want to kick me out for being AFK.

I'm paying to play the game, if I log in, whose to say I have to log out?

[Abriael]

They need to open more servers so people can play, then when the wave passes offer free transfers and then close the empty servers. Or figure out an overflow system. People wont pay for a service they can't use, period.

No. They don't. The operation you're suggesting is extremely convoluted and brings the risk to have the people from the overflow servers flock to the most populated servers, creating further congestion, without mentioning the usual "omg they're merging servers the sky is falling!" crap.

People will be able to use the service as much as they want. launch rush won't last forever, and if they'll give up enjoy the game due to a day or two of peoblems, then they're just unreasonable.

The only thing that is needed, as Renen suggests, is an afk autologout.

[TrystWildkey]

I actually think it's breaching my right to play the game as long as you want to kick me out for being AFK.

I'm paying to play the game, if I log in, whose to say I have to log out?

The thousands of other people that are trying to log in to actually play the game.....

[AngryNixon]

Stop demanding people stop demanding more servers. Also what the hell are you talking about initial pop. spikes for. The servers are currently operating on a severely reduced population to keep them stable because *zombies*. The fact that they're "busy" is indicative of exactly jack shit. If you're going to keep the concurrent populations this small you need more servers to spread people out, no two ways about it.

[Zehira]

No... They DO need to add more servers. 25 servers with auto-kick AFK won't solve anything.

Servers are already full way before the release date. Yay...

[Abriael]

Stop demanding people stop demanding more servers. Also what the hell are you talking about initial pop. spikes for. The servers are currently operating on a severely reduced population to keep them stable because *zombies*. The fact that they're "busy" is indicative of exactly jack shit. If you're going to keep the concurrent populations this small you need more servers to spread people out, no two ways about it.

And you know that they're operating on a "reduced population" how? Cities are bursting with people, and you don't have anything to prove your claim.

No... They DO need to add more servers. 25 servers with auto-kick AFK won't solve anything.

Lessee... who are the ones that have the actual sales figures and data to know how many servers exactly they need in the long run to keep them nicely populated?

You or SE?

Thought so.