Your prediction is off, because there will be no mergers. Server consolidation (transfers off, then dead servers closed down) is highly likely (it's how I would do it; it's how Rift did it, with success, so I've heard) is probably likely. Mergers? No.

It is almost guaranteed there there will not be a single high pop server you can transfer to for free. You'll be able to leave them for nothing, but it'll cost you if you want to move there. Its the only way to ensure these few servers don't become clogged when the transfers become available.

What doesn't generate complaints on this forum.

I need to stock up on cheese today. The whine around here is overflowing!

Wish in one hand, and **** in the other. I'll let you figure out which one fills up faster. No free time is needed. Maybe some free time off from the SWTOR forums for some people would be more beneficial to the game.

And yet, here you are. Funny, that.

It's because very few people around here actually know what a true merge is. They use the word "merge" to describe any number of possible solutions to the problem when it is not what will happen. There will still be no "merge". It'll be transfers with targeted server closures for those with little or no population.

Subjective.

Despite what you might think, your opinion is not a fact anymore than his is. And OP, you pay $15 a month for access to Bioware servers. That's it.

You are going to be waiting a very long time for these expectations of yours to be met by a game, because it is never going to happen. You should just return to WoW and never leave it again. This game will be okay without you, and these forums will be a bit quieter.

Show me the post where Bioware "promised" you any of the things above and I'll believe you. You can't, because they didn't, but feel free to try anyway.

Because true or completely made up, there are people on this forum running to every thread that appears to validate their bleak outlook on this game. Threads like these give them what they want: validation.

Wow. You are very misinformed. Not much else can be said without getting an infraction.

Why do PvPers always think this. PvP does not save games. There is a very good reason there are not a plethora of PvP MMO games out there: your demographic is not enough to prop up said games. A game needs to have a good balance of PvP and PvE to be successful. A straight up PvP game has about as much appeal as a straight up PvE game does: not enough for game companies to waste money trying to create one that, in the end, will be a niche game (see EVE for example).

There is a staggering amount of ignorance in this thread. It does not surprise me that it is being perpetually propped up by the same 10-15 people as they post over and over again. You know, like most threads of this nature on these forums. Same 10-15 people over and over again.

Except for that little business of the player actually having to conciously transfer their character. This is why the merger cries are here; no one wants to actually take any initiative with the problem, they just want Bioware to do it for them. The cries, if they did actually merge servers, would be tremendous because they would only cause more issues than they would solve.

You didn't know? Everyone here thinks they speak for some vast majority that doesn't exist.

No, Rift did not merge servers. You do not know what a merge of servers is (I explained above). What Rift did was offer transfers, then close their dead servers. This is not the same as a server merge.

This comment tells me you do not know what a merger is. What Rift did was offer transfers, then close dead servers (I believe this is the procedure they used; never played Rift, just going on heresay). Merging requries a physical merge of the data from the servers, which is a messy, complicated business that is worth much more trouble than it is worth. It is also a bad move publicly, as the Internet would then explode that the game is truly dead on all websites everywhere and good luck getting any new players after that. That is the great debate; those calling for mergers are misunderstanding what a merger actually is. Some will argue it's just semantics, but I think the difference between the two is night a day.

You are right. We should stop this fun nonsense immediately. There is doomsaying to be done around here, dammit, knock this fun **** off. YOU HEARD ME!

Blinking should have been in at launch. I mean, come on, it's been 6 month and no blinking? WoW has had blinking for 73 years, ***! Being facetious is fun.

Blizzcon is canceled this year, I believe. Doesn't mean they will come to E3, but I am fairly certain their own convention is not going to happen in 2012.

Warranted or not, GW2 will be the big talk this year, I'm sure as far as E3 is concerned. Unfortunately, we will have to hear about this all over these forums for a month after E3 has passed about how awesome GW2 is going to be and how this game will lose all of its subs because of it. Meh, predicting the future is fun, but around here some make it a little too easy.

I am sure there are several servers with good populations; my server, Darth Bandon, seems to be fairly lively on the Republic side, anyway. My comment was more a jab at the type of player who flocks to a PvP server than the posters comment on the server itself; those communities are usually festering, abhorant playlands for adolescents who passed adolescence many years ago.

I'd wager that xserver proponents, like myself, would be perfectly fine with this plan (I am). The other side, however, is so adamant about the "evils of the LFG tool" that no compromise short of "never put this in ever, other players on other servers might hurt my feelings" is going to suffice. Honestly, I'd never use the toggle because I see no issue with xserver. I have no objections to having a tool with both options. I do know that just single server may alleviate the issue somewhat, but it is not going to help the way an xserver would.