I completely agree that when you're picking a server, there should be something that spells out the implications of picking a server.
1. You will be stuck here and you will not be able to move.
2. If a million other people join your server, you're still stuck there with waiting times.
3. If your friends are on another server, you can pick up the phone and call them and tell them about your adventures later. No need to play with them on here.
4. In the future if we do allow switching for the people we have trapped in a location who didn't read the fine print (oh wait, there wasn't any fine print), we're going to charge a large fee because we haven't made you pay enough yet by buying the game and your monthly subscription, not to mention other pay-for perks that you probably already enjoy.
I've only played one MMO before this, Star Trek Online, and there is absolutely nothing in there about servers. Everyone is playing on either the same server or some huge matrix of servers. They do have separate "instances" of each world running. But when I beam down to a planet or station, it automatically puts me in the same instance with my guild mates there, so I can see their characters and interact with them automatically.
When I first bought this game, nothing was mentioned about what each server was and that your character would be stuck forever there. I knew some of my guild mates from STO were playing here, so I was going to join them at a later date. But first I wanted to get used to the mechanics of everything myself. The only indication I ever got about picking a server is the color coded bright red FULL = apparently bad and green NORMAL, which is apparently good. So I picked the NORMAL one.
Well after some leveling and finally talking with my STO guild mates, I know what server they're on, and it's not mine. I have a level 30 character that, frankly, I'd like to keep. "Oh it's only two weeks. It's not your whole life...." I don't know about you, but this isn't my real life. So when I get on here, I can enjoy myself, play with friends and not have to worry about anything. I spent a few hardcore days in here (thanks to the holiday season) figuring out where I wanted to go with my character, what I wanted to do, enjoying the story line, and leveling my character. These couple of weeks would take me months to get back to the same place. Frankly, I don't want to repeat the same decisions and the same quests again all in a reduplication of my efforts.
Aside from that, I'm in a server that I never have any problem with wait times. What does that mean? There is almost no one to do group quests with. I've done VERY few Heroics and Flashpoint missions. I did get a group together for one Flashpoint. And I've done some of the 2-person Heroics. Other than that, I'm not able to complete any of the 4+ person group quests.
