There will likely be necessary transfers (or merges) within months. Letâs not pretend SUDDENLY players who quit already will not quit this time. We are inching toward Archeage levels of âfresh startsâ âŚ
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Thanks for sharing this info with us.
I donât have Twitter, so itâs much appreciated!
Not if they improved the game. If the game is better fewer people will leave. Lost Ark is proof of that. Still hitting over 200k concurrent nearly 8 months after release. If the game is great and continues to improve the population may even grow.
And the fresh servers will naturally be merged with other fresh servers first. By the time they have to be merged with legacy servers it will be a long time away at which point it wonât matter.
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The game is much better. But I strongly doubt that the millions of people who quit will be long-term satisfied with the changes. There is still not much content. There is one OPR map, one arena map and no leader boards, hardly any world PvP, no raids and little PvE content. There are still fewer high level dungeons than any other major MMO on market.
What I think will happen is fresh start servers will just put a stain on existing servers because a lot of current players will make the switch (which also goes to show that content is lacking if THAT MANY current players are willing to start over).
Fresh start servers are not good. Their need generally shows major flaws in game design. Just look at the mess that is archeage and its constant cycle of fresh starts
Happy to be wrong, but the Renaissance is going to be short-lived. If you quit within 2-3 months the last time (the majority of quitters), I donât see anything that will keep them longer this time.
You are a true hero for finding all these links and articles haha. Thank you, hopefully these debby downers and forum warriors will see this post and chill out for a bit.
My pleasure 
Iâm super excited to get going too!
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PLAY IN {worldName}
<font color={colorHex1}>You can only have 1 character in the </font> <font face=âlyshineui/fonts/nimbus_bold.fontâ><font color={colorHex2}>{worldSetName} World Set</font></font><font color={colorHex1}>.</font>
If you want to play in another {worldSetName} World, you will need to delete this character in {worldName}
If you have friends playing in other {worldSetName} Worlds, you will not be able to play with them.
Only new characters can be created in {worldName}. Characters cannot transfer to and from this Fresh Start World.
Characters may transfer to and from this world.
{worldName}
from Globalcommontext.loc.xml [aka start screen]
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But for how long is the question.
Fresh for a month? Three? Forever (and hope they dont reverse?) i get the feeling eventually they will allow the transfers in.
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Well of course, no point in keeping the server closed forever. Progressing now is really easy so i think 3 months is a sweet spot
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lvl60 in legacy with 1 year of resources/gold obtained âyou know howâ, are going to wait to get in. 3 month is like not opening a fresh start server.
The only way i see a merge or transfers from legacy to fresh start is if the fresh start go really low in players after 6 or 8 months.
cheers and have a nice sunday! 
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And then what? Those who are far ahead are gonna keep holding their territories on their own servers because they earn more. Everyone else wonât be much ahead or ahead at all.
Also low players on fresh? It is gonna be exact opposite, everyone will keep starting in fresh server from now on.
then? well⌠let´s see what happen first with all the new leveling experience, the new territory management mechanics they´ll add, a new market with no bad history, X4 playerbase because of the fresh start server announcementâŚ
If in a year from now the game loose their player base again (because they didn´t learned from their mistakes), who cares if they merge both legacy and fresh? No one would be playing it anymore.
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Itâs happening bois
Just that ags wanna share information, can be anythingâŚ
Guess yall keep missing this âŚ
and again⌠What evidence?
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Thanks so much for your comment. It sounds like you may be asking for some new maps, leaderboards, some raids, and some additional dungeons. The game devs are always looking for player feedback, so if you have any additional information or suggestions, I would be happy to collect those from you 
Variety is the spice of life.
There are two ways to make variety in an MMO. Amazing open world PvP. And tons of instanced content.
Yâall abandoned open world PvP with impressive rapidity (for better or for worse) but you arenât supporting that decision with enough instanced content.
Iâd say at this point, youâre going to need to make the tough decision to move to a sub. Itâs either that or p2w garbage in the cash shop. I think people would accept the former more readily of you deliver more content with it.
We need lots of battlegrounds and different modes, different team sizes, ranks and leaderboards⌠And above all that, cross server functionality. Your original game was meant for small servers. But that ship has sailed. Once yâall decided to go all in on instanced content, I HOPE you were smart enough to immediately start working on cross server functionality.
To sum up. Focus on the open world (specifically PvP imo) or double (quadruple) down on instanced content.