First, it is quit a long time ago that i played this game, saw the new developer Update and thought ok, lets give this game another try. Played a few hours, played a bit of the festival stuff etc. and was good expierience overall.
Yesterday i wantet to log into the game and got a queue of about 600 people and was like WTF is happening, or more like not again.
So i quit for the evening because in the 2-3 hours i have to play in the evening with a job, wife and children i wont wait out 600 players. So i played a bit Back4Blood.
So lets think a bit ahead, when the new Update comes closer and we will see more and more players returning, EU ( i dont know about other Regions) will be in the same shit again. Even if the Devteam will open new Server, returning Players, will not join them, they will continue where the left, playing on overpopulatet Server with horrendous Server Queues. The Cicle continues and the game dies again.
So a Question for Gamedevs, what is your plan here.
I honestly don’t think there’s a specific plan, or a new plan. They will open up new servers, people will leave after the hype is gone, they will merge them again, etc. The game is simply designed in a way that’s not scalable. Servers are capped around 2k, simply because their infrastructure can’t handle more, etc. So yeah, expect new servers, and expect to see them dead eventually.
They will open up new servers. Some people who don’t like queues will transfer there and find the server feels dead until the server builds up players. While that is happening. opr and arena queues will take forever to fill, the trading post will have limited inventory and erratic price fluctuations, and people who transferred will regret their decision to leave an active server and wish they had a 30 minute queue to wait in to experience an active server.
I’m in the same situation, I have between 3/4 hours at most to play because I need to work, pay attention to the family (wife and children). Last night I faced a queue of 950 people. It didn’t take as long as I thought it would, about 45 minutes. But this now, I really want to see when the patch comes out and how the issue of new servers will work, because in Latin America we only have 1, who will risk going to another server.
The solution is to stop locking characters to 1 server. So many issues would go away if they got rid of this nonsense. Let us log into any server within our region.
TBH the game does not even work at 2k. There’s not enough high-end resources nodes to support that kind of population at max level. in AGS minds, 9 territories means 9 companies of 100 players get to experience wars and territory management. But what happens in reality is 1 shell company can fill the map with 1-5 size companies and use this exploit to gatekeep the entire population out of wars. Before, at least you could abandon a dirty server full of weirdos, But now there are only a handful of servers and all of them have the same problem, you can’t escape it.
if they opened a new server, it would be overwhelmed immediately, Because people want to play territory management and wars. By merging the servers, AGS has effectively removed this game mode from the average player more than it already was. All they’ve done is concentrate the worst parts of the community together. For people who love doing nothing but spamming OPR/Dungeons I’m sure it’s great - but that is braindead mediocre gameplay you could get from any MMORPG.
Crafting, Town management, open world pvp and wars are what make this game unique and interesting and AGS has done everything they can to ruin them all, including over-merging the world. They want you on a treadmill of instanced content and have given up on their open world.
i came back as well because they finally removed orbs and now can do expeditions.
Of course, fix one problem, create another. Now theres a goddamn queue because of server consolidation. INCREASE THE SERVER CAP!EVERQUEST HAD HIGHER SERVER CAPS 20 YEARS AGO
Yeah agree with that, so it works well, they should just make 2 phases 1 pvp and 1 for people without so even if there are 4 k players enough endgame recourses are there.
3 hour que! OMG Reminds me of launch! I’m lucky I can play anytime I want since I am disabled and unable to work. I read a book while in que. BUT this is beyond stupid! AND I can’t be in PTR and the game as far as I know Might just try logging into PTR on the laptop but bet they say no to that! We have a Bot issue that never get fixed along with too little resources, most are being camped or is on a timer with bots. Heck just to level 28 levels on weponsmithing to 200 today it cost me almost 100k! Don’t get me wrong I LOVE the game. But I’m beginning to rethink my love of the game
I have tried 5-6 different times throughout the day to log into US East server Orofena and always there’s a queue that never actually goes away, it goes to 1 then back to like 6 and back to 1 and randomly all over the place but never actually lets me in. I had no issues logging into US West Yggdrasil without any queue at all. Unfortunately my main char I play is on Orofena.
Yeah and there lies the problem, i want to play the game, but i cant at the evening, but i will not lvl a new char again. So if nothing changens, that is it for me again, bevor it really startet again.
