First thing is most of the people are seperated from their friends. We broke up with most of our friends because we took a break from the game. I want to play the new update and events with my friends.
The second thing is most of the servers are started to die due to the ridiculous territory systems. For example in Barri one purple company took every territory or they are about the took the last ones and they increased taxes. The trade system is collapsed. Most of the players want to change the server. But the problem is servers are closed and we are stuck in the barri. The pleasure in the game is completely dead and this server has turned into torture.
So, before the core players get completely bored with the game. Unlock the servers please. Or just tell us when the servers are going to unlock.
I hate this idea personally, It just crams already overpopulated servers. I get people want to play with their friends, but the alternative is basically unplayable in terms of average queue times. You might say then “Well, expand the server capacity.” Simple answer right now is they cant, the servers at just 2500 players are struggling as is and increasing the maximum population is going to do more harm than good. I think their best option would be to allow character creation, but not allow transfers in since at the very least you could still play on an alt with your friends on that server.
I disagree mostly from a PVP standpoint. Allowing free transfers would allow the most dominate companies to hop to each server for free and take over every server and then just hop back to their servers to defend their territories. This is what has killed servers in the past, and only recently due to the population increase has made the need for new servers to come back. Also, since AGS doesn’t have a subscription service, I would be willing to bet most of their profits are coming from server transfers at the moment. Since, most people who are coming back to the game already have a copy of it. Meaning, the only other option for profit would be the cosmetic store which while i’m sure it is profitable, it’s not sustainable.
I hear ya, I hadn’t thought of that. Makes sense after reading this though. At least in regard to New Worlds in game mechanics.
I think regardless, the idea of capping a server and holding such strict limitations around character transferring is bad. Coming from a company that literally hosts servers for the rest of the business world, we should be seeing better results.
I don’t know what the answer might be, but I personally like the idea of world hopping, or the general concept of “no worlds” and making some system of auto transitioning when needed. It won’t be this game, but there will be a game that will allow 100,000+ people to gather in a spot and simulate a real-life experience. I think it’s time a new system is created to handled that.
Facts, the idea that i or my friends would have to fork over more money when games like osrs just let you world hop for free. They already spent money on the game and we just get canned responses about previous server transfers that dont apply to the new players. Why do i even tell my friends about this game if its this anti new player?
They’re going to keep them locked for a while. You’ll see the server population increase with returning players, even on servers that are currently locked. They want returning players and current players to migrate over to the new servers.
Every single account was given two character server/world transfers.
You, and all of your homies, should use those to transfer to one of the brand new (lower pop) servers to balance out server population issues. THIS would get the servers unlocked faster than begging AGS to just unlock the high populated locked servers.
Then, you and your homies could enjoy the game, without server queues, come tomorrow’s patch day.
