So, No Server Mergers Incoming and server transfers not happening until 1.3

[Calenei]

There is a lot of debate in the community about server population. Any insight on how you guys feel about the population distribution?

JO: We always take feedback from the community and from all kinds of different sources like our telemetry metrics, and take it very seriously. When we hear that from the community, we are listening. We have the plan to allow for character transfers in the future. The legacy system actually is another reason why character transfer is becoming more important. It is one of our biggest priorities right now; that and group finder are essentially are biggest priorities coming in the near future after Update 1.2.

 

Is there any discussion of merging servers or adding incentives to move players to low pop servers?

 

JO: No, we’re not going to. Merging servers is not something we are looking at. We have a very healthy game right now, so that is not something we are looking at in the near future. We're always going to look at ways to make sure a server is healthy. There are a whole bunch of different ways you can do that. We're discussing them. We want to make sure players feel like there are enough players on their server to play with.

 

 

So my question to the community is -Do you think the delay in server transfers and the announcement that server mergers will not be considered will be detrimental to the game and the decline in some servers populations? Please keep it civil.

[Trineda]

Hi there!

 

We would like to direct you all to a few existing threads available for discussing the population concerns:

 

• Server population is dropping...
  
• Free transfers in the future?
  
• When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"
  

 

We appreciate you taking the time to discuss this topic, we encourage you to please continue your discussion in the current, ongoing threads. We will be closing this thread. Thank you!

Edited April 11, 2012 by Trineda