- Server Limits are 6000, NA servers other than Bartz barely pass 1200 people , for a MMO thats pathetic.
- From talking to people on a server like Devianne which, is statistically the 2nd most populated server in NA the feeling is that it's dead (at the time of writing this theres a total of 6 people in aden and a server status of 1617/6000)
- Alyra, pass this on you see the majority of your subscribers want something, they want to play a game they love that by design is a Massively Multi-player game.... To get there, at most there should be 2 NA servers and 3 Euro servers, the Euro servers are doing good, and if i had a better ping i would transfer to Teon in a heart beat.
Sieg= 550/6000, Kain 1156/6000, Lionna 987/6000, Erica 786/6000, get the picture?
Merging 2 tiny servers= 1 small server, merge 3 and you have a medium server which is decent.
Please, make a decision thats BEST for L2 NA for you and for us, merge servers so that theres 2 NA servers.
PS- As posted before, this is NOT my site i found it surfing, but check it out as you can see what i said makes sense and would create nice active servers for us to play in L2 Server Status (numbers) (http://l2stat.gang-clan.ru/index_en.php?server_id=1)
- Server Limits are 6000, NA servers other than Bartz barely pass 1200 people , for a MMO thats pathetic.
- From talking to people on a server like Devianne which, is statistically the 2nd most populated server in NA the feeling is that it's dead (at the time of writing this theres a total of 6 people in aden and a server status of 1617/6000)
- Alyra, pass this on you see the majority of your subscribers want something, they want to play a game they love that by design is a Massively Multi-player game.... To get there, at most there should be 2 NA servers and 3 Euro servers, the Euro servers are doing good, and if i had a better ping i would transfer to Teon in a heart beat.
Sieg= 550/6000, Kain 1156/6000, Lionna 987/6000, Erica 786/6000, get the picture?
Merging 2 tiny servers= 1 small server, merge 3 and you have a medium server which is decent.
Please, make a decision thats BEST for L2 NA for you and for us, merge servers so that theres 2 NA servers.
PS- As posted before, this is NOT my site i found it surfing, but check it out as you can see what i said makes sense and would create nice active servers for us to play in L2 Server Status (numbers) (http://l2stat.gang-clan.ru/index_en.php?server_id=1)
the more ppl on server, the more interesting it is.
if you prefer loneliness and solo play, buy some single mode game of last days, which has much better graphics, sound, design, contents etc etc etc....
Lets vote now on new server names ... based on cry baby rate ... Kindergarten could be one ... StillInPampers another ... the one Shic would be on is [censored]andMoanAlot ...
Devianne has more people than the sum of Sieghard and Erica. I wouldn't call that dead. It also has a lot of PvP (can't really compare to other servers, since I haven't played)
LOL. That game is a piece of flaming dog [poo]. Hands down.
I don't understand all the whining about CH's. This is supposed to be a "hardcore" game. Get your lazy a**es in gear and TAKE the CH when it comes time.
And if your clan has had a CH "for years" its time somebody else got one. In my opinion there should be an event once a month and you should have to FIGHT for it.
This is a ballbuster game, if you want easy...follow Ashley's link. You could hit max level before the Seven Signs starts over.
I truly believe that the servers in question NEED to be merged. The spirit of the game is lost when you have 500-600, even 1000 live players scattered over an area the size of Aden. Those of you who were there at release know what I'm talking about. The servers were slammed, often times couldn't even get on due to traffic.
As has already been stated this is an MMO, the way the servers are now does not define that.
One thing I must admit is the character name issue, but what can you do thats fair? I mean 2+ ppl can't have the same name, so somethings got to give. Other than that, I see everything being a positive in the end. I wish they would combine all the servers into just 2 NA...would be like old times.
I actually would have preferred something more aggressive - in my mind only 2-3 NA servers are needed. However, I'm certainly happy they are doing this.
The thing is - this is the kind of thing you don't want to do often. So, imo it would be better to go all the way (ie, merge down to 2 or 3) than to try a minimal / incremental approach - in which case we might be having the same conversation later.
I just want to telll you guys - I play on Bartz, which is supposedly "high" population by today's standards. I cannot stress enough how low population Bartz is, compared to the way this game is really designed to be played. If there are some of you who were not here at launch or during C1/C2 days, you have no idea how exciting and dynamic and fun it was back then - the politics of the servers were nascent and the action was nonstop.
Even Bartz of today, the king of NA servers, is a tiny pale shadow of those days.
So, do not worry that things will be crowded for you after the merger - they will not be.
"More is merrier" is an oversimplification Drakkos. I'm not trying to instigate with you because I know you're not happy over this.
But a better way to articulate it would be to say that there is a certain critical mass in this game, at which point dynamics start to kick in that many subscribers here are not aware of because they haven't seen it. And in my opinion those dynamics were the heart and soul of this game.
Now, because I would like to see the populations reaching a certain threshold (its probably a little less than double Bartz population), that does not mean I think that higher population is always better. Clearly you can get to a point where the server is crowded, and then the enjoyment may go back down. Or, as some of us may remember from launch, you just can't log in at all. =)
I'm simply saying the game is best when you are around that threshold where the more competitive and global dynamics of the game start to have an effect. It's fun times.
Anyway these mergers they are doing are SO minor.. you are still going to be playing on a low population server. You're still going to be playing with all the same people you play with now. Only difference is you will have a big, all-at-once influx of "new" players to befriend or begrudge. So I can't imagine feeling threatened by it, honestly.
I can understand some anxiety about clan halls but otherwise I don't really get the fear and loathing that some have expressed. It's very "chicken little" to me.
Ok so now that server mergers happened, some of you STILL aren't happy and STILL feel the need to complain. "Oh it's NOT good enough" "We need just TWO NA servers" "No, we need just ONE NA server" "No, we need ONLY Euro servers"
I'm not complaining. I'm glad they are taking action. But admittedly its a disruptive action - the kind of thing you don't want to do annually, so I'm just suggesting - why don't we just go all the way with this and put it to rest? Or, putting it another way - since these mergers are finally on the table - let's make sure we consider all the different approaches, and what their pro's and con's are.
but in the above post I wasn't being facetious. Essentially none of the 8 NA servers have 2k players (bartz at times).
It seems a couple don't have 500 and about 5 have 1-1200.
7000 + Bartz's 2200 or so would be 9k plus a bit.
I don't see why they wouldn't have just gone to 2 servers of about 4500 each with this step.
Then I guess we are saying the same thing after all. I acknowledge this is disruptive to people, so if we are going to do it, why don't we do it *right* and get servers with ~4k or so online at a time. Probably this is where the prestige/ego factor may interfere - going from the current number to two would apparently send a death-signal of some sort. But imo, the number of players is what it is. Work with it to the best of your ability I say.
LOL. That game is a piece of flaming dog [poo]. Hands down.
I don't understand all the whining about CH's. This is supposed to be a "hardcore" game. Get your lazy a**es in gear and TAKE the CH when it comes time.
And if your clan has had a CH "for years" its time somebody else got one. In my opinion there should be an event once a month and you should have to FIGHT for it.
This is a ballbuster game, if you want easy...follow Ashley's link. You could hit max level before the Seven Signs starts over.
I truly believe that the servers in question NEED to be merged. The spirit of the game is lost when you have 500-600, even 1000 live players scattered over an area the size of Aden. Those of you who were there at release know what I'm talking about. The servers were slammed, often times couldn't even get on due to traffic.
As has already been stated this is an MMO, the way the servers are now does not define that.
One thing I must admit is the character name issue, but what can you do thats fair? I mean 2+ ppl can't have the same name, so somethings got to give. Other than that, I see everything being a positive in the end. I wish they would combine all the servers into just 2 NA...would be like old times.
And if you were there, those were the BEST times.
if that game is that easy forget it.
I just take the red pill and see how far down this rabbit hole goes. :p