currently, lostark is a whale and hardcore player oriented mmo, but SG knows they cant continue like this forever, so they’re mulling changes, but its a long road ahead still for any concrete changes.
Nope, they could continue like this forever but they became too greedy and started losing their core players.
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if you are a database technician and you think merging regions that have their own economy is a 15 euro task, I think you are a jobless one, no joke.
Why merge at all? Why not just transfer all the accounts? Copy paste instead of merge?
Pretty sure EUC servers can gandle EUW if they are really so low populated
lol. merging databases isnt as simple as a windows mouse copy paste thing, they need to allocate a team to write the program, test it out for any potential bugs that could wipe data off, it all takes time and money, there’s no incentive to do it at all, except for a few unhappy players on SA and EUW. Bear in mind different parts of the program was written by different teams, and in different times, so getting into all that rabbit hole, isnt as simple as it sounds.
On point 6 you are completely ignoring the people who play outside of the US. Merging would completely screw them over and there is a sizeable chunk on NA West. It’s why the server feels alive at all hours of the day.
So not a good idea.
Though I do want the server merge for NAE And NAW, but I’m currently abandoning NAE for NAW due to the ping, would be really shit if I go through all that bs grinding again THEN when I’m getting the roster going then they merge the server, wasting all my time regrinding. If they are planning to do the merge then it’s better they should announce it as soon as possible so I know what to expect and go back to NAE suffering a bit of lag instead of wasting more time on NAW trying to get my roster going.
With regards to the merge, if you can’t merge then have our account horizontal content sum up into a data and all our data turned to a sort of ticket and be able to use it to obtain all the horizontal content in the new region would actually solve the “we dont have the technology” issue.
Reason people dont want to reroll to new region is because of the horizontal content (Cards, Shards, Gems, etc). Do you know how much time invested to gain all these?
I dont get it why when you can consolidate a server merge but you cant consolidate the data and open the data into a new region.
yea FF XIV mentor system is awesome, gives veteran players a incentive for helping a new player. They could also give mentor multiple times to do raids one a single character.
I agree with everything OP listed, hopefully the road map will deliver on some of these. I’m sure they know about region merges and how impactful they are. I hope they can get something down about that this year
@helloicanseeu A merge is not as hard as you think, the restriction is where the racks are in the world for the servers, if they are in the same location, it would be easy to merge the database to include everyone… any name fields the same will flag that account up for a name change.
Most MMOs use MySQL for their database, and it is MySQL that will sort them and check for same field usage - as such names of characters. I.e. There is no need to “write the program” to do it, MySQL will do it on the fly.
Yeah I’m pretty sure copy and paste works just fine here 
It’s not unlike simply creating a fresh account on EUC and receiving everything you have from the game in a chest
Not much complications are needed, except for the namechange thing, which has been adressed by people who know
I don’t think it’s that much important that the prices are different. Prices reflect number of players more than anything else. You paying more or less for same amount of things than we do doesn’t matter once we’re merged.
And any way you decide to spin this, it’s the still factual information that it’s AMAZON games. It’s AMAZON. they can do whatever the fuck they want. They’re not your average database manager who’s handling 2-3 text documents for a local online shop.
If you seriously believe all this bullshit about technology being hard to implement, then it’s OK; you just dont have a clue about this world. But if at the same time you claim you’re working as a database manager, then I also feel sorry for the company you work for.
“We are talking about 15 euro old tech here”
Bro, do you really think he meant to say euro there? Think a little, he meant to say 15 year old tech… geez…
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its still propriety software, they got to divert manpower resources from other stuff they want to do, to work on it, rite, u got to test software that handles other pple’s data thoroughly before u use it, think of banks handling pple’s life savings. Its a one time use software too, so its very unprofitable to provide these kinds of service. Dont think they’ll be able to charge like 200 dollars for each account that gets a region transfer. Its much easier to say the software or technology doesnt exists. Its not as simple as just a few software routines to handle sql.
You are talking a lot of nothing to be honest, soon as I mentioned MySQL you should at least understand I know about networking and databases right away.
Merging databases is simple, you just need a rule in place if 2 entries share the same data in one field, set a flag on the newest account to force a change of name, etc.
The only restriction is where the hardware is.
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dude, management isnt interested in whatever easy technical methods u have to do that thing, u are talking about nothin.
Why merge …we are sitting on servers spread so thin .why not merge the players together…plus less cost leasing servers for SG and better economy and party finder for us.
You didn’t get the point, bro. I’m all for the merge.
I was saying you most likely don’t even need to perform a merge at all. You can just copy-paste from EUW to EUC, add namechange exception and be done with it cuz the servers on EUC can cover whole of the database. They can, we know it because of how the game was at launch.
I doubt the ping can be a problem. LoL’s EU servers are all in Munchen. I’m far from Munchen. The game works just fine for me, on 30 ms on average.
Why attack me personally then and my profession ? !
I didn’t
I was attacking those who work in your profession but claim the merge is too hard to do, lol. For one of the richest companies in the world, as well xD
I agree with the merge. I just think transfer would suffice.
IMO; best case scenario is they consider merge to be their last line of defence against the game dying. They would rather try and fix the situations with any other means at their disposal because merging us all together is the same as admitting defeat and stopping to hope that the game will flourish again. It kinda sends the wrong message to the stakeholders.
But, I mean, it’s the right way to do anyway.
Yep absolute impossible task for the richest multi billion company in the entire world, with their availability and influence that d take 10 minutes, way too slow and unproductive to spend 200 grands to grant themselves a return within a week.