You'll notice I didn't mention the new FPS games, such as COD, which require hardly any skill at all. In fact, I would say they require no skill as a monkey could get into a game of COD and top the scoreboard. I can tell you've also never seen a 1v1 game between two professional players of quakeworld, quake2 or quake3. Your reply made me smile sadly.

For any game to have a level playing field in PVP, the depth of the gameplay mechanics need to be good. For example: - It needs to be fun to improve your own skill level - Improving should be challenging, so it's more rewarding as you improve - There needs to be a high skill ceiling MMO's generally don't have all those qualities, which is why there is gear to reward players who play more and make it easier to beat people with lower end gear, who may be equal if not better in skill. While I applaud bioware for leveling the playing field, and making this game not so much about who has the better gear, I don't think it's going to work too well in an MMO because they lack the depth of skill required. To illustrate my point, consider the following skill level requirements of the following games to be played at their highest level: - Quake3/Quakelive (any of the quakes really) - Starcraft/Starcraft 2 - Original counterstrike - UT2k3/2k4 Compare the mechanics of those games to MMO's, and you'll see a huge difference. MMO's with an even playing field can get boring very fast because there isn't as high a skill ceiling and it's not too hard to get very good.

They are just venting, no one *expects* them to actually do it. Everyone complains about politicians lying through their teeth too, and calls for them to tell the truth. No one actually expects it to happen.

No one is expecting them to, me included. Doesn't change the fact it's still very disappointing.

No one's arguing with you about the reasons. All we're saying it's very disappointing, and frustrating for apac players, they are insulting our intelligence by the spin they put on it.

Yeah exactly. Most people understand this. What most people, me included, seem to be annoyed about is the way they are trying to spin it. If they had just said 'we're closing it down, not making any profit from it, can't support the server costs any longer given the player base on all 3 servers' I think most people would react like this: 'well that sucks, but fair enough.'

I don't really blame them for closing the servers. Going by the petition, they're only going to lose about 800~ subs from doing it. What's losing 800 subs compared to the hundreds of thousands that already play on EU/American servers? They should just be honest about the reason for closing it though, not try to spin it that it's the best 'solution' for us. It's clear 90% of people don't want to transfer to american servers and would rather 1 apac super server.

Because they don't care and never have cared. And, they try to make out like they care by offering a 'solution' which the majority of players didn't want. The real reason is there aren't enough players on all three servers combined to make any kind of impact to their profit, so they are destroying the servers and making everyone play on american servers and cutting their losses.

for once i'm actually happy bioware takes a long time to get anything done. it might actually give me a few months of playing on 30 ping before they get rid of the aus servers and i unsub.