There are plenty of us playing on dead severs hoping for another token or mergers so we can actually enjoy the full game. You make it sound like anyone left on these servers enjoys a solo experience. I do not and many people like me don’t. Personally, I was hoping that a 2nd wave of tokens were coming shortly, a post by one of the mods seem to indicate they were considering giving out more tokens in the next few days. Another post seemed to indicate we’d see more tokens and/or mergers before year’s end. I think that’s reasonable as many of us are dying to play more OPR, do dungeons, do HWM farming and figured AGS doesn’t want to lose the thousands of players strewn across these servers.
With the latest post from AGS though, I think that’s the nail in the coffin for many of us on dead servers. I was telling people that based on the way AGS is prioritizing things, we shouldn’t expect server mergers and/or more tokens for about another half a year. The latest post from them couldn’t make it any clearer that another wave of tokens and mergers are so far on the horizon they aren’t even willing to give an ETA anymore (and definitely are not mentioning anything about getting it done before year’s end, like before).
So no, while those of us left on dead servers are not just continuing to play because we like playing solo, I think people in this position do need to accept the fact that if they hope to actually enjoy the full game they should either restart on a different server or quit the game for however many months/years it realistically takes for them to do something about the dead servers. Most people I’m sure, myself included, are not willing to restart after spending hundreds of hours already maxing skills, raising our WM and gathering rare loot and will just quit.
This makes sense but the answer is right there in their own post it’s stupid they haven’t actually done it yet. They should just issue another wave of tokens immediately for all active accounts and not enable them for any accounts created after. Botters can’t just buy more accounts to bot dying servers and use tokens to transfer as new accounts won’t have a transfer token and meanwhile, the people left on dead servers can at least move off world finally.
Tbh. this new blog post kind of threatens you to either keep playing the game or you won’t receive another transfer token while at the same time delaying mergers further.
It’s a weird move that again mostly punishes their players, while bot accounts very likely will look quite active and engaged with the game every day.
I feel your pain as i had given up on my 700hs invested first toon, just to be able to move out with my company. Luckly for me theyhelped me outproviding enough resources for me to powerlevel through townboard quests so it took me like 40hs to get vack to 60 with a full voidbent set waiting on my bank. It is painful to give up that many hours played and start all over again.i dont know if this is a possibility for youbut if it is, letme tell you, i dont regret it 1 bit. Ive given up on believong AGS can manage their own game its beyond them.
C’mon guys, something. my server has about 50 regular players, ive never even played a game of outpost rush or won an invasion. we get to wave 4 and give up. i transferred to Agartha to play with my friends, they refuse to transfer off and seperate us again.
Server tokens need to be available, atleast for sale. Your server caps at 2250 people, changes in communities of this size can be drastic. Other MMOs have 10k+ pop servers, similar scale of change is not felt.
We have 0 OPR queues, cities are barely functioning. I have people who met and created relationships in New World quitting to play FFXVI and server/region transferring there to be together via paid service (mog store). This is actually insane.
You can continue to do your world mergers, but at this point you are holding people hostage during holiday season where they want to game.
Paid servers tokens should not be a dependency tie to world mergers.
Make tokens available again (another free wave or paid, at this point doesn’t matter which). This enables players on dead/dying servers to move to more populated servers so they can have an actual good game-play experience especially with upcoming holidays.
After the holidays, do the merge experiments and clean up any remaining servers by shutting them down/merging them into the other worlds in the set.
Right now merges are just so late, the population for many servers has been bleeding (players to other servers and players to other games) and the token is a current functional and most importantly working solution. Outside of the concern for a great player experience population wise, the bug history from patches hasn’t been stellar. Trying to merge before holidays could lead to technical issues that impact both the players and the devs who need to deal with it instead of relaxing.
Do the players and yourselves a favor and just make tokens available so everyone can have a nice holiday.
While I know it sucks for people who used their token and are now on a bad server, they’re not going to do a thing about transfers until well after the whole server merger thing is done.
You could start a new character and level it faster than waiting for server tranfer, at least, that is what i did, and having a blast on a new populated server.
