Question about servers. Say Wild Growth, make Wild Growth 2, 3, 4, ETC. That way if you have a clan joining they can do any one of those servers, and after a few days layer and balancing can happen in the group without a xfer fee. Would help with this surge, but when everyone hits 25 and leaves you know what ones are going to be merged together.
This is actually a decent idea, assuming they cant get the layering to work appropriately. I would have to think that during testing for this they hit their login server with at least 500k concurrent login attempts. I am really trying to understand why this is always an issue, like really every single time.
But to your point having a road map of merging would go a long away in avoiding “wrong server” anxiety. That way you could join a low pop server, knowing that there isn’t anything to worry about because it will all merge back into the parent server.
I feel like there is something we aren’t being told, it could be a cost thing, perhaps its simply too expensive to get the necessary server space to make this work and they would prefer to just have a bad launch while it all calms down. This to me is shortsighted, because how many players will just quit, or how many wont try the next game because of a poor experience. Games are a service industry, and imagine a restaurant that said oh hey btw after waiting for hours if you get up from your seat you have to go back and wait again.
The wrong server is always a worry, I give that. But I am currently not moving in que. Stuck at 416 now. Sometimes the que goes up. ie 418 from 417. But still having 6 or 7 servers in groups or links or something just to get in and play. idk seems like they should have something for players in que.
Server names are not the problem when it comes to merging servers. The issue is that character names are unique to a server. How does the server fairly decide which character should keep their name during a merge?
If they release multiple versions of a server, have it so character and guild names are shared among them already maybe?