Server to Cloud move question

[TrixxieTriss]

1 hour ago, DWho said:

The cap itself is less of an issue than the number of unlocked slots. If you have been through several merges, you can easily have more playable characters than you have unlocked slots. This means to create a new character you have to delete characters to get down below the number of unlocked slots. Depending on how long you have been around you have either 12 or 24 "free" unlocked characters slots (as a subscriber) per server which are not added together when merges occur.

BioWare did also increase the number of free unlocked slots per server with the last merges. Of course, that still didn’t help many of us who had unlocked the maximum number of slots and had them maxed across multiple servers. 

One thing BioWare/Broadsword could do if they merged the NA servers onto a single AWS is to triple the allowed slots to 300. That would allow people with 100 Alts per server to keep them & allow you to buy up to another 100 slots if you were so inclined. It’s not like an AWS wouldn’t be able to handle the numbers. 

But there is one thing I think people are forgetting. All the games servers will probably just be geolocated on 3 AWS  servers (if they do APAC too).

Satele & Star Forge would be on the same server hardware as seperate virtual servers, like seperate instances. It would probably cost the same as merging them into one. And because they are just instances on the same hardware, it wouldn’t be hard to have cross server queues for SS & SF for flash points, operations or PvP. It would be the same for the European servers too.

So there really wouldn’t be any need or reason to merge them if they can do cross server for group content queues at the local AWS regional server level.

[akdonkey]

Like Many have said I'm sure it's still far too early for any factual information. It was nice what little they put out the other day. This Broadsword move on top of the cloud will affect us all.