Dear SOE...Population

They are doing it with the Elder Scrolls online. It's possible.

PS2 is a different game run by a different company. There are potential technical/financial issues (especially this early) that may make it a impossibility at this time.

I'm not trying to shill here, it's probably true.

It's pretty sad that this post is so right. I guess it isn't worth it to buy the smg then...

Gotta agree with you, Jaeger is pretty ghost-towny at non-peak hours.

Ah yeah, this thread. Feel free to keep posting here, but I ended up moving the discussion to new threads when we learned that there will be transfers (not merges) and then when transfers got pushed back...

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...quences-of-server-transfers-vs-merging.77279/

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...r-solutions-for-low-population-servers.84349/

That last sentence... Apparently PS1 did fine with low population because people were funnelled into certain areas.
Not saying I don't want merges though.

It also helped to have a single global server. Due to everyone from all timezones playing in it the game was apparently constantly populated, back when it was still played.

Anyone knows if the transfers are up ? i cant see them ingame

They were simply too greedy... and not the smart kind either, or they would have realized how critical it is for the player who likes to spend money to actually be able to play the game.

That's why the new trend in F2P games is not to bind characters to servers, but to give players an option of a server before logging in.

Yeah, would be great to be free to pick servers. They just need to figure out how to make it easier to know which one to pick(say showing outfit and friends number per server) from the login screen or add some sort of lobby.

And add some way to see connection quality too, if they were at it, very useful feature... But they're short on time and the moneygrab opportunity is there, so I guess it's not gonna happen. And there's also the risk of server hopping... but I can't see that becoming a big issue with the gaming being what it is right now and if it does I think SOE can take measures against it with relative ease.

SOE, This, Now, Please and Thank You

Nobody dev's a game they know isn't going to be a success, I stopped reading ur post after that sentence alone. Lucky it was near the top.

@OP

Its a business, they are in it to make money.
Server transfers would be a great way to increase profits.

Who the hell liked that ****, if you don't like the game don't play it, and why even care about it's forums.

What's wrong, is the negativity hurting your feelings? He didn't say he didn't like the game.

24 pages, I've read *most* of them and it seems like the last few pages have been slightly off topic.

Genudine server is dead. I've had the opportunity to log almost daily, for multiple hour long sessions each time, and mostly during 'peak hours'. I can say Genudine is dead if it's not a double xp weekend. We still might get a 20-30 man battle at a bio lab or tech plant, but that's about it.. The only thing I can expect to see on Genudine is blatant cheaters.

Has SoE even mentioned anything about game population? An official acknowledgement? Anything? 'War on a Massive Scale' or 'Massive Warfare' that's plastered all over the main page is just, well.... extremely misleading...

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...servers-let-us-change-often-eu-servers.57931/

Another one that might be of interest. Keeping it bumped can help convince SOE to let us choose servers freely, now that tokens were delayed.

I've been watching the server status page all night. It's 10:30 PM PST here, prime time will start to wind down soon. Connery is the only US West server to reach "medium". Both Genudine and Helios even have been at "low" all night.

This is plain sad. One US West server, SOE. Just one. ******* do it already.

SIZE?ALWAYS?MATTERS?

I'm gonna use your sig now.

The only problem I have with this is the tremendous lag it might cause. If they can get around that, make it happen, Sony.

Wow we can't have a real discussion about gameplay? Saying the game is dead is a dumb, if it's gonna die that's up to the devs. Oh and sorry for hurting your pessimistic feelings