Hello, i play on zimervale with my guild and community.
Some of my friends (mostly IRL friends) were not able to get in the server witch i totally understood as the queues are so big etc they went to a smaller realm.
But I’m here to ask you to Please, Please lock full servers like Zimervale, mainly when f2p players get in. I have nothing against f2p players, but you know, me and the others paid a big deal of money and are already in huge queues (im 3:30h hours into a queue with 1.3k more people to go). If you don’t lock these serveres for f2p players it won’t be possible to play, simple as that. The queue will be at least 2x larger, so it would be around 8 hours.
Please do something, lock the servers is the only thing I can see that is possible now. And don’t lock it only for few hours, lock it for quite a few days, this game is about to blow up any expectation you guys have of the number of players incoming (it will be 2 million players on 11th, you read it first here).
PS: I’m not only asking this in a selfish way, I have been in most MMO launches of the past 15 years, if nothing is done it’s amazon, and every single player (f2p or not) that will pay the price.
I made a similar topic but no official reply.
To me it’s absurd that Servers like Zimmervale, Asta, Thiraine and Kadan are still open to new characters.
It would be even more crazy to keep them open on the 11th.
They did the same mistake with New World, they added new Servers but kept the older ones which were already full, still open.
Of course new players kept flogging to the full ones, because as we know, we are a clever bunch…
Let’s not make the same mistake AGS.
I have shared this feedback/request with the team.
They are aware of the issues that unfortunately folks are experiencing and I am continuing to push for decisions and updates I can share.
I imagine that it refers to new players, if you do not have created any that does not let you create but if you already have a pj if it lets you create it is only at the time of entering the server because the day 11 is going to be crazy if now we have queues of 20k as it will be on the 11th that is the official free opening XD
Locking full servers. Why not just make them larger? This game is how old? And this problem is new to Amazon planing like a Indie Company. Its their first large MMO game (HA HA HA )tho, they dont know it better than to just create one vm on a home computer and make the servers run on it.
I disagree with this entirely, as a person in a friend group that has the founders pack (friends don’t have founders pack) I would like to play with them and not be forced to switch servers and have to re-level my character and not be able to claim my loot from the founders pack, if anything just add more servers or add character transfers but don’t lock them
I do not disagree I have friends who will be coming to the game tomorrow too as f2p players. I waited in a queue yday it started at 10,040 from 6pm until 8:45pm I quit the queue at 4000 approx on Kadan server because I wouldn’t get in before bedtime.
I tried again at 10pm just to see what the queue was like at 10pm before bed and it was 6250 people deep. If you allow this influx of new players into the servers your friends won’t be playing the game for long because I can guarantee you the games queue will be into the 20,000+ tomorrow and non of us will get a game.
What was more annoying is I got into the game earlier in the day waited 45mins and they gave me a 5 minute server shutdown timer.
So yesterday for a game I have paid £43 to play I got 5 minutes all day. Yes it’s my fault for purchasing that price. But they cannot allow to have a massive influx of new players come onto that server.
Ultimately the value in your ÂŁ43 is the ÂŁ40 worth of crystals which move with you.
There are a few obvious solutions.
1 allow server transfers. This is clearly the best solution, people will be able to both move off high pop servers and move too high pop servers down the line when things settle down, and allow them to start on any “good” server now.
2 Allow power pass to be account bound, so if you get to 50 on server A, you can start an account on server B and powerpass it to 50 so time relevelling is not needed. The downside is you lose you name, and any items that are not tradeable that you have redeemed.
Unfortunately they will never give you more founders packs on new servers as it would totally screw up the game economy, as there would effectively be unlimeted potions, upgrade mats etc from the packs if people could claim them over and over by creating new characters on new servers. You have to write that down to a loss for the good of the game. In reality the items in the chests etc are not worth much RL money anyway in the grand scheme of things.
As for locking servers? Well the community will pretty much lock new people out existing servers as they will be full by the time the game goes live in EU at least. I’m not expeciting to be able to play tomorrow night unless i can take a half day at work and get in the queue before 3.
Enjoy 30k queue