I would love to come back and play this game, but my only friend who still plays is currently on a locked server. I transferred regions so I could play with him only to find out AFTER transferring that I wouldn’t be able to get onto his server because character creation and transfers have been locked. My experience with this very thing on my first server leads me to believe that this server will never become unlocked until its fucking dead because that is what happened not only to my server, but many others.
please why are you stealing money from them, then screwing over your own player base? I thought this game was struggling to maintain players and you continue to do things that prevent people who would want to come back, from playing with their friends? thats abit fucked dont you think? meanwhile he tells me of all the bots and gold farmers that are on his server, why are you allowing them to populate a locked server but refuse to let actual players join it?
surely someone has the power to help me. I will not play this game if I do not get to play with my friends, and there is no way I’m the only person who feels this way. and if your suggestion is for him to move to whatever bullshit server I was forced onto, you cant expect him to now pay for another transfer to come to a server where neither of us has any connections, what if he cant afford that kind of bullshit? why are you making it so hard to play your game?
You can play in approx 4 weeks.
Comming during primetime of a update and hoping already at max capacity servers will open up is quite unrealistic. Unless your friend is new to online gaming he could’ve told you so.
They will likely open up servers around December, maybe 1-2weeks earlier.
Endwalker had queues for 2months
OW has queues of 30k people.
This here will despite them locking servers for the past month also have queues likely.
If they wouldn’t lock them you’d already be stuck in a 5h queue if you’d try to login between 10 and 23 o clock.
unrealistic to think i can transfer to servers that have no que lines? on US.East the only que line i saw had 2 people in it, why are these servers locked? whats the reasoning for it? their populations arnt overflowing, there are little to no que lines at all. and you expect me to wait a full fucking month to play with my friend? again does this game want to continue shooting itself in the foot? where’s the logic?
The game merged around 400 servers into like 40.
So there’s a lot of dormant accounts.
If they decide to come back with Brimstones, even if only 5%. It will automatically lead to hourlong queues for weeks despite already locked servers for a month.
WIthout locked servers you’d right now have hourlong queues every day of the week.
And after Brimstones you likely wouldn’t be able to play for a month at all.
Since due to servercap even 200people surplus can mean 1-2h queue. So having 1k players over that limit would cut you off from any game experience.
Most longtime players have 2 tokens to transfer. He can just use that. And you can both transfer back in a month or two.
I said it already to other people here.
If your guild is more important than your irl friends for 2-3weeks. Weird priorities.
forgive me for thinking that a dieing game shouldn’t hinder its own players when it absolutely doesn’t need to. the server in question HAS NO QUE LINE, and there for should 100% have room for more players. not only does this server not have que lines, NO other server on the us.east realm has que lines that would have you waiting more than 5minutes to get into a server. again WHY are these servers locked? for what reason or purpose have they been locked so prematurely? one of the unlocked servers HAS MORE PLAYERS than the currently LOCKED servers. why isnt this server locked?
and yeah lets transfer to another server where neither of us are established. my buddys been playing this entire time, he has a guild hes been playing with, made friends with other people in the game he wishes to play with. tell me to use a “free token” that no i do not have a free token, i just mention i fucking had to PAY for a region transfer only to get forced onto a server i didnt want to be on. is pretty dumb my dude. yeah lets just go to a completely new server because the new world devs hate their community.
Cause you don’t have the data.
Idk NA servers. But some newer EU servers here have barely any dormant accounts. While some others likely have around 20-50thousand.
So until they know how the next 5weeks+ are going there’s no way they will open them up.
You ask for logic and I’m baffled you really can’t understand it.
Would you really rather have them not open up the new servers while locking the existing ones?
So now you’d have every single day a queue of 500-2k players.
And from next week likely 2-5k players.
Which would mean the same as on release. 15hour queues.
I’m in a similar situation. I transferred from a dead server to a lively one. Then all my in game and irl friends started playing again recently. Now I’m stuck on a different one and can’t transfer back to play with them.
Welcome to the New World forum, I’m really glad to see you are here at the forums and hope you can enjoy your time here and at the game as well!
Regarding your concern I’m really sorry about this whole experience, I know it could be frustrating to find yourself alone on a server, however we are soon to release new servers and provide an extra transfer token for players that have been active before Feb 14, 2022, please see all the details related to this on the following links:
Hope this information is useful and can give you visibility for what’s coming and what changes are about to be implemented that can help you with your concern.
If you need further assistance in any other issue please don’t hesitate in reaching us again!
I think they want force people to transfer from locked servers. Like someone before wrote there are too many sleeping accounts, and in patch day you can all be stuck in 3k qs. Thats why Caer Sidi have now 70-80 q and but its open… until there is no risk of really high 1k+ q, servers will stay open.
I understand, I am the same guy. Just explained what Devs are afraid. From the other hand also a lt of people who prefer playing on empty servers. Impossible to make everyone happy
This will never happen. They are trying to balance servers, not create enormous queues where people can’t even transfer because they have to wait in a long queue.
How do you guys feel now about locked servers?
Now you “only” have 3-6h queues on primetime despite servers being locked of almost a entire month.
Would’ve been so fun to sit with your friends in queue for 12h a day right
Well I just think this is better than having a 10h queue during the week and a 25h during weekend
And there’s enough lower pop servs with over 1.5k pop
