thought i had my 2 cents worth, but thinking more on this issue... the new expansion i wish i never pre-ordered now as i feel completely cheated. I had bought with the full expectation i would be playing on the APAC servers and to quote Eric from the SWTOR team - When we discussed the options internally we looked to address everyone’s primary issues with APAC, low populations were creating a less than optimal game experience. At risk of sounding like a broken record, for me, large latency creates more of a less than optimal experience than a low population. Sure, the queues are somewhat long for wz etc but once folks get into the swing of things can have a few good nights of back to back games. Group finder queue? Never had it pop sub 50, but a few shouts in general chat on fleet usually can get a group together, for 50? pops a lot more than wz does! Why has the decision been we need to move there, why can't they move here? There's 3 APAC servers and how many north american servers? Oh wait, because no-one in their right mind would want to play with increased latency and murikans kick up more of a stink? we're a minority group and no-one on the SWTOR team really gives a toss how we feel and want to experience the game? Our "optimal gameplay experience", as dictated by you, is setting all graphic details to the lowest possible setting in the hope we can reduce latency from average 300 down to 295ms, cutting us off essentially from experiencing any end game content to the fullest? That's our "optimal gameplay experience"?!? Again, to quote Eric - We did previously ask what folks on the forums would like to do as an APAC solution...(snip) You asked on the forums? How nice...maybe 10% of the actual population that play had input? Maybe a better idea would be to e-mail the folks who would be affected, with a poll or a link to the forum in question, anything!!! Instead no, a few minority speak out about "I don't wanna RP with folks that don't know what it even stands for!!!" and this is the decision that's reached? bah, so disgusted

I really dislike this proposed "solution" to server population for APAC servers for a number of reasons. First reason being what many others have stated with the ping/latency. I pretty much pvp about 95% of my time spent in game and am grateful to have an APAC server to enjoy activities such as the warzones to their full potential as I am lucky enough to average 25ms latency. My average latency on a west coast NA server is 180-220ms, east coast 250-350ms. It doesn't take very much imagination to picture the frustration will experience in games such as huttball when you try to pass the ball not knowing you've been smashed to bits by a team of kids in the US with 25ms latency for a couple of seconds already and your connection hasn't given you the info yet. Sure, it's playable...but is it an enjoyable experience? Can pretty much rule out straight away doing any ranked warzones as you'll just be like the kid always picked last for the team...the one who can't throw, catch or keep up with the rest Other issues i have are names and gear disparity. I've checked already and the names of my two characters are already in use over on Begeren Colony, and what if there's someone i don't like I can just rush over now and reserve their name if it hasn't been taken yet? For some that RP, choice of name can be a pretty delicate subject. With gear disparity my concern is that, as a low population server, those of us here have perhaps not covered or farmed enough high level operations etc for the uber items that a server of higher population would've been able to on a regular basis. This, coupled with our latency issues, essentially turns us into second class citizens. Lastly, it feels like it will essentially doom any other game in the future from ever providing oceanic servers as they'll look back on this and say "oh remember that star wars game? they tried APAC servers and it failed, don't worry about them...serves 'em right for not being Murikan anyway" - Kai-Lyn, 50 Juggernaut - Felice, 50 Operative