(01-08-2016, 11:07 AM)Kage Wrote:I know the tech they have is different but what wow did to bandaid the issue of imbalanced servers were to link them together sort of through "Cross realm" but many hate Cross realm simply because it killed a community even more so than battlegroups back in a patch before BC(01-08-2016, 07:39 AM)Cassandra Wrote:Honestly they're more likely to just separate Gilgamesh and Balmung into different data centers than they are to expand servers. As you said, they want people to populate the existing servers. Not to mention how horribly fucked up Aether Data Center gets when -everyone- is wanting to play. *cough*Heavensward launch*cough*(01-08-2016, 07:28 AM)Akasumi Wrote: I know this is probably such a forgone question. But will they ever...EVER...expand the server capacity (or whatever they have to do) to allow us to create characters on Balmung again WITHOUT having to transfer from other servers? Why are they dragging their feet on this?
Doubtful. They want to populate existing servers rather than encourage people to migrate away. It's much more cost efficient to spread numbers around. And while I think they should consider server merges, it's horrible PR.
The unfortunate fact is RP doesn't matter to Square. They look at Balmung not as a RP hud, but just another large server. There isn't a reason to expand it anymore than expanding Gilgamesh because it's the unofficial raid server these days. That, and I'm too much a cynic to deny they're not complaining over the transfer fees we all pay to get our RP fixes. >.>
The thing is, no one really wants to be the pioneer. If someone is going to move they're more likely to want to move to a place with things established.
To solve the server population via expanding, they would have to go the SWTOR route and kill the least populated servers while forcing those on killed servers to migrate to med pop servers. Thhat would probably be the only way to do that. But there is never a way that solved the issues. In fact, some players (Weirdly enough) like being on empty servers as much as people who enjoy heavy pop.
I doubt we will see anything server changing till 5.0 IMO
