Why this is not a solution for the queues in my opinion:
People wanna play in the region with the highest population. Even if they cant play with their friends on the same server they can play on the same region. So now they need to think about a COMPLETE change and this is only good for new players but not for the old players. And if they dont wanna change the region they will still login on the full server. Higher queues.
You have no possibility to provide us with server change or region change. This means your whole server and region structure is unstable. What if some of the new servers die? Those people cant go to another server. People WILL go to the most populated region and server so they are safe. So if the new region completetly dies (what 100% will happen) those people and their progress are gone for ever. And THIS is the biggest problem you are not trying to fix.
You keep the player population low because you will have a problem with the stability. How is this even possible in a company with billions of dollars? Man this a SMALL INDIE GAME COMPANY problem. Youāre scared of putting the game in a unstable position but its already unstable because people canāt play this game properly.
Youre just looking for a good way to fill up the game even more without fixing the problems. First you open the closed servers again and nobody can even think about a good reason for this. This was one of the biggest laughable mistakes a company could do. Now you wanna create a new REGION to fix this problem but the queues on the other regions will remain. What was the point to open the server again?
This is how I see this whole process. Sorry for my bad english.
Most people want to play WITH their friends, each server houses 10,000 people from what I understand ( I could be wrong, but I remember reading that somewhere ) - they are unlocking and locking servers as they see their populations dip. I havenāt had any queue times to wait in for the most part and have to say this has been the smoothest launch for a game Iāve ever experienced. The new REGION is so people from that area can play with lower ping, not so much a population concern.
I imagine as servers start to empty out once the hype is inevitably lower they will offer free server transfers to the servers that they decide to close. Itās day 2 of the game being out, give it some time to get things in order and see where things shake out
You havenāt paid a lot of attention to the situation have you? Let me guess, youāre not from Europe? There was almost half a million people stuck in queues and some of us had to wait 12+ hours before being able to play. Basically they canāt make more servers in Europe because itās already at max capacity so they want to create a new region from scratch. But since character transfer is impossible between regions a lot of players will have to leave a lot of things behind.
Just so you know whatās happening.
p.s. yeah, disregard muricans, they canāt see past their state lines, most of them are baffled at what we are crying forā¦ābut but the launch was smooth, wait what there are other continents involved in the launch? ā¦wait what there are other continents on Earth??? really??ā
Who in their right mind will want to move when that region is not connected to the current one. So no party finder for pvecontent like raids, auction house, abyssal dungeons etc. In a few months those servers will be dead and co-op content hard to do.
why not, if you make tempting offers with mounts and outfits and auras there would certainly be ppl interested and founders pack.
So you get all the benefits you got here + more with the right incentive + you get another shot at getting your char nameā¦donāt count it just yetā¦doesnāt US have 2 regions?
The idea isnāt bad, the question will be whether or not enough people decide to start over on the new region. I for instance, will not be restarting, I may not be 50 yet but Iāve gotten 60-70% completion on the regions Iāve done so far and do not want to start this over.
Iāll make due and wait until thereās a server transfer feature.
If new servers ādie outā they will merge with other server just like in New World. And if the new european region dies out the same will happen. In that scenario your progress obviously wouldnāt be gone.
Imagine comparing "some (ok, a lot) of ppl not being able to play with thousands of "I bought this jewelry piece of AH with 540k gold but transaction went through only one way due to server instability and overload so now I lost 540k gold and this is not verifiable or restorable manually " (or drops from bosses not saving or who knows what else).
(Ofc the solution is not good enough as it is right now.)
