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Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Free Character Transfers Begin
Szark
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Mythic entertainment has announced that they have begun free character transfers on select source and destination servers.
Greetings!
The Free Character Transfers have begun! Players of the following realms are now able to login to the Mythic Account Center to begin transfer of their characters. Please be sure to read all instructions carefully! There are cases where you may lose items if you do not properly prepare your character for transfer. This also applies to the Guild Transfer functionality.
Read more here.
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Free characters move is not the solution. Servers merge is.
Merge low pop servers together and shut them down after. Reduce the amount of servers by at least 40%.
Actually free character transfers is the solution. Atleast now people can pick which server they end up on. Instead of forcing them to one server. Guess that passed you by, eh?
they are already having to merge servers? =/ thats not a good sign....
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Actually it is a good sign, because it shows that EA/Mythic are taking the effort to do what's best for the players and get everyone benefitting from playing on servers with a good population. Happy players = more players.
It's better for them to start with too many servers and then let players move to the higher-pop ones than have too few servers and have frustrated players who can never log on.
All in stark contrast to SOE and the Planetside server merge fiasco. Werner has been dead for months, but are they going to let us take our characters across to Gemini? No. But then that's SOE for you.
Good to see that they're atleast trying.
Wow, that was really fast.
It is not enough to win back all the lost subs but it should less the loss of players or stop it at least so they can start to work over the rest of the things that needs fixing.
A good sign for WAR, having low pop servers really kills any PvP game.
It is not the thing that will turn everything around but it is a good start.
It's a good move, in reaction to a not-so-good result, I guess.
i think they basically made sure that there would be enough servers to handle the first month but now theres a drop off some of those servers are redundant . this is nt the solution server merging is and also a free trial will boost the number of new subs . warhammer is a success its got enough subs to earn a good profit . if it wants to get a slice of warcraft pie some smart things have to be done sooner rather than later . this is a good alternative to wow in fact the only real one if you like pvp . warhammer could pick up a lot of old warcraft players in about 6 months once they get bored with the new content of the lich king . the game itself runs pretty smoothly on my mid range pc . it certainly not jerky and clunky like some people say in these forums . it does make me wonder if they are playing on machines that are several years old and expecting miracles .
they had to do that at the release too.. instead of fixing low pop /medium servers.. which holds dunno 500 players? back then. unless cap was increased. doubt.. they cloned high servers.. into either 1 high 1 ghost.. 2 ghosts. 2 mediums.. fail in every aspect..
they had to do that at the release too.. instead of fixing low pop /medium servers.. which holds dunno 500 players? back then. unless cap was increased. doubt.. they cloned high servers.. into either 1 high 1 ghost.. 2 ghosts. 2 mediums.. fail in every aspect..
QFT right there but also I like to add you can't totally blame them, players were told to log onto the cloned servers but refused to do so. Wait times on the servers were anywhere from 30 min to 1 hour and players still kept on trying to get on these servers.
I don't get it. What's the point of free transfers?
Do they want to make the low populated servers even less populated, or they expect people from high populated servers will move to low populated to balance out?
I believe they overshot on the amount of servers needed for the game's playerbase, and are allowing you to transfer off the servers which are underpopulated, condensing the player base.
Ok and what's gonna happen with the underpopulated servers then? I would bet my eyes that not all characters will transfer, so there will be some characters left. Are they gonna transfer them manually somewhere else and close the realm, or leave the underpopulated realm for good?
once the transfers are all done and dusted they would probally merge the low pop servers together and then take the un used ones off line that would be the smart move imo
It's funny reading this thread, I can't go a single day withough people saying, "There's no one out there!" And then when Mythic does something to help that people say, "Oh man that's a bad sign, they're going to die now." This move seems to make a lot of sense, though server merge wouldn't be a horrible idea either
Originally posted by GTwander:
How are you an MMO? Or any of us for that matter?
I say we strike all users from the site for not being MMOs.
I've heard an aweful lot of numbers tossed around lately from Mythic. 750k accounts, 800k active players, 1.2-1.5 million boxes sold. Looking at those numbers to problem is obviously not to many servers, but something else.
That being said, yesterday I logged onto one of the new destination servers and it was packed. Well it had enough people that there was actually people fighting RvR, attacking and defending keeps, etc... in T2 even. I will see how T1 is and maybe T3 by the end of the week, but it was a lot more fun than anything I've experienced in the last several weeks on my old dead server. Yes it was dead.
I think Mythic is on the ball. They are doing this for a good reason, to keep the player base happy.
Anyhow I don't thinks its a matter of people leaving the game. It is a awsome game especially if you like PvP.
For what is planned in the future and the newest video of the devs mentioning new classes, not the ones coming in December but newer ones and the mentioning of a expanion already in works, I see them not pulling the plug on the low populater servers
Mythic is doing the transfer for folks who just want to play with more people and more rvr(pvp). Since it is impossible to do cross server rvr scenarios(like WoW) since rvr battle affects your faction's standing.