back up you go

If you've ever played an MMO during and after the first month of launch you'll know that the populations die out very quickly, most especially on the low population servers. The stragglers leave for the bigger servers that should at that point no longer have 2 hour queues during prime time, and everyone that's not staying for the long run has probably already left or is planning to. Now, for the few of us who are sensible enough to start on one of the non-full servers, the risk is fairly large that a month down the line when everybody settles down the servers of our choosing are going to be empty, leaving just the juggernaught servers (I'm looking at you Tomb of Freedon Nadd and Legions of Lettow) with a healthy population for the entirety of the game's lifespan. What's going to be done to prevent this from happening? Are there any plans to merge the smaller servers shortly down the line? Transferring everyone on the low-pop servers to the higher-pop servers? Hell, might save EA/Bioware a bit of money getting to switch off some of their servers. We all know offering people free transfers away the bigger servers never works, as nobody wants to switch to an empty server... so perhaps the opposite might be more effective. I've made the mistake twice at MMO launches of starting on low-pop servers, only to have to remake my character on a bigger server later on as it's so unbearably quiet, so it would be fantastic if we, I, could have a little clarification.

Do you really think a few multi-lingual guilds have the numbers to be able to 'claim' a server? Please. If anything, Tomb of Freedon Nadd is going to belong to me once I get in.

October and November were huge for pre-orders. F-F-F-F-F-FRIDAY NIGHT MOTHERTRUCKERS.

They're already starting October. November was as big as July for pre-orders so December's probably going to be either the late hours of tomorrow (for us Brits) or Friday. I'm okay with either of these.

What is with you Americans and posting your dates backwards? Day comes before month. Get it right.

5th. I'm okay with this, I have a fair bit of coursework to do before Monday so the excitement is keeping me alert and eager, resulting in higher quality writing. Hoping to get in on Saturday as I'm at work 'til 3:30pm that day and then I've got an entire week off, merely an 8 hour shift on the eve of Christmas and then another 2 entire weeks off after that. Everything is coming together nicely. Thank you, Bioware, for your release timing.

It's going to be exactly the same for both sides. What's the problem? It makes the game more exciting, knowing that there are people plenty capable of kicking your *** if they get bored of doing what they're doing. I'm all for *EDIT: gently caressing* cocksure higher level players with a party full of laser knights and air wizards anyway.

My virginity. I'm a 5'8 155lb (inb4 chub, I lift heavy things up, put them back down and eat dead animal parts very regularly) cute (uguu~) 19 year old British student that is spending his Tuesday afternoon waiting for an invite to a video game that he pre-ordered 7 days ago even though he knows that he's not going to be in for at least another two days, if everything goes well, all while ignoring requests to spend time outside with friends and scoffing at revision books before tossing them in to the pile in the corner of my box room (which also has a massive boiler enclosed in to a cupboard to the left of the room's entrance, so the 'room', in actual fact, is merely a desk and a bed *EDIT*:, and a wardrobe) along with clean washing that I can't be bothered to put in to my wardrobe because my wardrobe is absolutely tiny and it would probably take about 2 hours of perfect folding and stacking to get the said clean clothes to fit in to the wardrobe and then I'd have to repeat that process as soon as I needed a pair of clean clothes, i.e. tomorrow. It is truly a joy to be alive.