Jahor Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 What worries is that Mythic was apart of the teams responsible for this game. They are EA's main devolopment studio for MMORPGS. They bought them, and shoved them under the Bioware Banner. They used to be Bioware Mythic, but I think it's just Bioware now. As far as I know all the main coder back from Mythic (DAoC+WAR+Mythos) left when EA bought the label. So there is nothing left but the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motoeric Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 there was nothing about this in the Q&A, and honestly this is the biggest problem the game has right now. If this isnt at the tip of their to-do list then im VERY worried for this game's success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azumio Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 As far as I know all the main coder back from Mythic (DAoC+WAR+Mythos) left when EA bought the label. So there is nothing left but the name. Looking at it, seems quite a few of the big guys are left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizcuits Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 It'd be really nice to see a dev response on this topic.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imminentend Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 (edited) After leveling 2 republic characters to near 50, toying around with a lvl 25, playing since late beta, and starting the top Imbalance thread in the Suggestion Box for weeks with my brother and seeing no changes, im finally being forced to cancel my sub until the grass gets a little greener. Rakata Mind Prison Republic Fleet population is nearly ALWAYS under 70 ppl, and thats at peak times. Want to group during the day, or do any sort of heroics at a non peak time? Good luck, chances are that the 20 other ppl online dont feel like doing them. Bioware, love you guys to death, love this game to death, and I hope someone takes the time to read this thread and take some initiative before this game goes down the toilet. Fix this issue, and all the rest of the little "bugs" become ignorable. Looking forward to a better experience in the future, hope to come back. Edited February 25, 2012 by Imminentend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sowwy Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 46 people on fleet as of this posting. There's just too many servers its spreading the population too thin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinisterZz Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I hope soon, because the server i am on has at peak times only 170 people online at rep side. Bioware this is a disgrace. The server is Tasaa Bareesh. I am in the only guild that can do hardmode and nightmare ops and is the only guild that means something on pvp. Everyone else is just walking after us . We need more people! I want a server merge now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIzaak Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I'm on my 2nd character (republic sage), I thought I was on a low-pop server with my main so I rerolled onto another server (3rd most populated server). I play after work and on weekends sometimes. I'm almost level 45, and the past 2-3 weeks I've seen maybe a total of 10 other live players across the 4 planets I've been on. The only time I ever see more than one live person in the same area is at the Fleet, and even then it takes forever constantly spamming LFG to form a group. As chatty as my companions are, they just don't fufill the MMO experience I was expecting. I'm not sure if its intentional for PVE servers, but I've also yet to even see an imperial player too. This is becoming more like a single player game, and I'm starting to wonder if its worth paying a monthly fee to just to play with myself (especially when I can be doing that in more satisfying ways). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brohaculo Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I am playing on Axial Park and wow...I am hoping and praying for maybe 10 people at a time on my server. This is an MMO!!!! I started on Fa'athra and because of a friend I joined Axial Park. Well I NEVER hear anyone talking and can NEVER find any groups. This is not an MMO, this is a single player game with a subscription charge. If I didn't care for the game and enjoy it I would have quit. I will give it another month, but comeon!! Thousands playing the game and I have SIX PEOPLE ON MY WORLD???!!!! MERGE THE SERVERS NOW! (and of course I would pay for a transfer...if that were available). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netentropy Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Definitely needs to merge servers more than transfer. These are worlds we are playing on not even cities. I would much rather wait for a WZ on a busy server trying to get the right group than wait because no one is there. I love Star Wars. I think this game is a lot of fun but if I can' do group quests because there are 4 people on a world (not even a city) then I can't continue to pay. And I want to pay and I want to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCBull Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 13 Months, if they don't fix the HUGE performance issues in large Scale PvP, the game will be F2P. Or they will just unplug it, honestly though the way BW is dropping the ball on CS and other aspects. I hope the game fails. My guild has already left, my husband left, my brother too! I'm the only one left, because I waited SOOO LONG! just for this game to run like it was designed by a bunch of kids fresh out of college. Bingo I don't know what more needs to be said... Games like The Secret World are coming out where 100-100+ battles are designed to be the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltuvion Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 46 people on fleet as of this posting. There's just too many servers its spreading the population too thin. On Senator Constipex, we've never seen that many even in primetime ^^ At most it peaks at 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miikke Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Been browsing ppls posts and the numbers they are giving on their server populations. These numbers just dont add up. If Bioware really did sell 1.7 million subscriptions by the end of December then over 1.5 million must have canceled by now. I have just switched servers from "Kellian Jarro" to "The Red Eclipse". The former is a "normal" populated server and the latterthe highest populated E.U. pve server. The reason I moved is because like most of you all, my server at best times has less than 140 people on it in total (both sides) max. I've been playing on the "Red Eclipse" for three days now and it maxes just over 1500 people at its best (22:00), that is counting both imps & reps. If the highest populated EU server has a max population of 1500 people on weekends and most other EU servers average 150-200, given that there are a total of 45 E.U. servers, it would seem that at peak time no more than 15000 people are playing in the whole of Europe. Even if we multiply that number by 10 so to include people who havent played for weeks (or even months ), the numbers still dont add up. Someone is trying to fool us all here and that someone is bioware. I Dont think there will be server mergers because then bioware would have to merge ALL E.U. servers into 4 or 5 servers max. Imagine the negative publicity it would bring them. They would rather pretend to have millions of players and keep up the charade for as long as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space_Gimp Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Games like The Secret World are coming out where 100-100+ battles are designed to be the norm. Yeah but wait until there's only a handful of people playing those battles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramicule Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Please don't be stubborn, Bioware, and merge the low pop servers now. This will really help improve the experience for your customers so that they enjoy the game even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gohlar Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Been browsing ppls posts and the numbers they are giving on their server populations. These numbers just dont add up. If Bioware really did sell 1.7 million subscriptions by the end of December then over 1.5 million must have canceled by now. I have just switched servers from "Kellian Jarro" to "The Red Eclipse". The former is a "normal" populated server and the latterthe highest populated E.U. pve server. The reason I moved is because like most of you all, my server at best times has less than 140 people on it in total (both sides) max. I've been playing on the "Red Eclipse" for three days now and it maxes just over 1500 people at its best (22:00), that is counting both imps & reps. If the highest populated EU server has a max population of 1500 people on weekends and most other EU servers average 150-200, given that there are a total of 45 E.U. servers, it would seem that at peak time no more than 15000 people are playing in the whole of Europe. Even if we multiply that number by 10 so to include people who havent played for weeks (or even months ), the numbers still dont add up. Someone is trying to fool us all here and that someone is bioware. I Dont think there will be server mergers because then bioware would have to merge ALL E.U. servers into 4 or 5 servers max. Imagine the negative publicity it would bring them. They would rather pretend to have millions of players and keep up the charade for as long as possible. And yet there are still people clinging to the idea that nobody is leaving. It's crazy isn't it? In the US they could maybe fill up 2 servers. It's bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitar Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 It's not quite that bad. I'd say they could fill probably 40 servers in the US. Best I can tell, peak play times in the US, still 75-100k players. I'd guess there's still 500k subscribers, US/EUR combined. At best. It'll taper off fast once the fence sitters cancel, and if the patch is a flop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogolp Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I was almost unsubscribing to this game. My server is ultra low pop (one of the few to still show Light even in peak hours) and there is almost no point to logging on before raid times. Pvp queues take a very long time, and most of the time the matches end early for lack of people. It is impossible to get groups for hardmodes. Things are to the point where most of the original imperial lvl 50s have left. So today, for example, the repubs made an 8 man premade (since there are so few lvl 50s on that side) and continuously destroyed the empire teams, since most of these were new 50s. And then I created an alt at a high pop server. My god, what a difference. Instant queues, very easy to get groups not only for flashpoints, but for all heroics and stuff like that. This game is significantly more enjoyable in high pop servers, so please either allow transfers or merge us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightmaguz Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Yeah but wait until there's only a handful of people playing those battles. You know what's funny? WAR had large army combat design, people absolutely hated it, everywhere it was "omg low skill" "omg zurg they bad!" and now people are again praising future mmo endeavours with large scale combat in mind. World is ****ed up... Anyway, I'm all FOR mergers at this point they, like the WAR team, dropped the ball on creating many of them at release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasherUK Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 (edited) Bingo I don't know what more needs to be said... Games like The Secret World are coming out where 100-100+ battles are designed to be the norm. The last time I saw battles that big in a game was in Planetside when it was about 500 people, it was laggy as hell. Technology still isn't quite there to handle it yet, unless your using low detail graphics on a high-end engine (which no MMO is). Edited February 26, 2012 by NasherUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliff Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Bingo I don't know what more needs to be said... Games like The Secret World are coming out where 100-100+ battles are designed to be the norm. Hmm Funcom is very good in creating a hype. I will believe the 100-100+ battles when i see them run on my computer (or any computer other then Funcom stuff). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KewarraSlayer Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 (edited) Bugger reading through 50-odd pages of sheet. Are you actually whinging about server mergers and requesting such when it is less than a "few months" from launch? You are the same people who would whinge that there are not enough servers if they were to release with 10 servers.... Get a grip mate, let the game evolve as it should.... If your server is low pop, you ****ed up where to roll your toon, re-roll and enjoy. Cheers, K. Edited February 26, 2012 by KewarraSlayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogurt Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Vulkar Highway is a Deadzone. Please do it now or cross server immediately! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenetke Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Bugger reading through 50-odd pages of sheet. Are you actually whinging about server mergers and requesting such when it is less than a "few months" from launch? You are the same people who would whinge that there are not enough servers if they were to release with 10 servers.... Get a grip mate, let the game evolve as it should.... If your server is low pop, you ****ed up where to roll your toon, re-roll and enjoy. Cheers, K. O.k. we get that WoW is doing fine, but we are talking about The Old Republic in this thread. No one to blame but the fanboys for this. They killed their own game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzle_flash Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 The longer they leave this, the larger the number of servers they're going to have to consolidate. A little bad pr is preferable to losing 60% of your servers overnight because its just wasteful to keep burning virtualized resources on ghost towns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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