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2 New Servers Added Just NOW!
Wellspring
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Trion just added two new servers to ArcheAge. One for NA and one for EU.
Go get your land plots!
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Predictable before the official AA launch. Had they waited until tomorrow, there would have been an outcry by founders about preferential treatment for F2P over paying customers and why it wasn't done sooner. They may still need to add a couple of more going into next week so why not add two now and diminish the outcry. No doubt there will still be those who will complain about why it was not done sooner but that is expected. If this launch hasn't proved that people will find just about anything to complain about, no launch will.
I suspect they were originally planning to open them tomorrow.
But... given the launch issues they had to do something to appease their angry founders who paid good money for their advantages, so they released them earlier.
That's not to say they won't open any additional ones in the coming days, or even tomorrow. Having available land gives those F2P guys some good incentive to subscribe after all. "Look guys! It's right there for the taking, all you need to do is subscribe quickly!"
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The reviewer has a mishapen head
Which means his opinion is skewed
...Aldous.MF'n.Huxley
Ya, this is a huge problem with this game. When other games lose enough players the devs can merge them onto servers and delete unnecessary ones. I think the problem with this game is you can't merge housing which is a huge portion of the title. And you also have that pesky problem with guilds being disrupted with a merge. They should have weathered the storm and held off, or found an alternate method for additional housing.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
I still remember the mess in Anarchy online when they merged RK1 and RK3 servers with conflicting open world player city plots.
They had to create a new zone that was nothing but a grid of city plots. Terrible eyesore.
Don't hold Wildstar and SWTOR as examples.
ArcheAge is a free to play game from the start. I'm not so sure that they'll need to merge servers somewhere down the line.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
But how would a mega server work with open world housing?
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
That is funny - F2P? NOT!! If you want to be competitive in this game, you will need to play with your wallet and squeeze as much cash as you can down at Trion.
This is a classic bait and switch game.
Why must one want to be competitive? maybe they just want to play the game, even as a patron (which is how I'd prefer to play if I did), I really wouldn't give two ****s about being competitive.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I would love to see a game that doesn't lose any players, but it has been a long, long time.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Blizzard does seem to be doing things the right way when it comes to the issue mentioned on this thread. Instead of "megaservers" they added the ability to play on any server with any character provided you have a friend on the other server -- you can go to each others at any time. Then they added cross-realm feature so that other realms will appear in low population areas provided they are of the same realm type (RP Realms appear in the same areas, PvP realms in the same areas, etc.). The one exclusion to the above is that capital cities and relevant content aren't shared in this way (and neither are the auction houses), which leads to the server "merging" whereby it uses the same technology above, but allows specific servers to share major cities and current content (as well as people keeping their names) as well as auction houses. In addition to the auction houses, they are now merging Horde and Alliance auction houses to account for faction imbalances on servers.
These methods I prefer over simple "Megaserver" solutions simply because they keep the soul of servers alive -- namely, their specific rulesets such as Role-play. It's a shame when everything is being merged into just "PvE" and "PvP" when it had other rulesets available at start, the people chose to play in (which leads to other disputes).
Now they're using their phasing technology to provide garrison "housing" and base building so that everyone has one in their storyline, if they want to take the time to build it up past the introduction portions that are required in the main story. I'd prefer either this or Final Fantasy XIV's "Neighborhoods" approach; a mixture of those two would be perfect in my eyes. Phased neighborhoods.
...Unless a game is so big that it allows for infinite housing. But that would require procedural generation of sorts.
Exactly it does me no good either. Not everyone in my guild got land, those that did didnt want to leave. So yay for a new server,
Please tell me you're joking. You folks take the bait and switch shit right off the edge of the fucking world. It's free to play. You can download it and play for free. Your definition of competitive doesn't mean anything to me or any other player but you. Just because you may feel the need to spend a bunch of money doesn't mean we all will. Also, I read up with another buddy on the free vs. patron status on their site deciding if we were going to play. It's all clear what you get and what you can do as a free player. The only way you wouldn't know is if you were an idiot and did zero research. Bait and switch my ass.
It wasnt bait and switch, it was a straight up con. Think about it, They knew EXACTLY how many founders packs were bought. They sold a product on exclusivity, on the premise that youll get land if you get the head start. THey did not deliver for a lot of disgruntled customers, and they knew from the get go that a lot of people would buy the founders pack and they wouldnt get what they paid for. Land.
Insult to injury, they open up 2 new server, well thanks for that, since my guild wont leave just so the few of us that got screwed over by the constant crashes, disconnects, and requeues can have land too.
If they had said hey by the way, just because you get a head start with your founders pack doesnt mean you'll get land, therefore theres a chance a portion of the game will be closed off to you immediately, I wouldnt have bought it.
Exactly. Megaservers sounded like a good idea, but in reality they destroy MMO's. People need to get what made MMO's so great back in the day was not the newness of the genre, it was the communities created within them. Archeage has a chance to recreate the old style MMO community like no other game in recent memory. A megaserver would absolutely destroy any chance of that.
No where, and really no where did they say buying founder packs would get you land, that is absurd. Land has to be contested in a game like this, grow up, in a week or 4 there is more then enough space. Also, founder packs did not sell you early access, that was just part of the package, don't make it sound like the rest of what was offered does not matter.
Calling it a con is like a little child whining it did not get what it wants, because really, that is all it is, you did not get a piece of virtual land that was never promised to you in the first place. No one to blame, not you, not Trion, but ohh isn't it easy to blame the big bad developer/publisher?
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
You have the opportunity to own land, you aren't guaranteed to own land. You want guaranteed land, you play a game with instanced housing, that's the ONLY WAY they can guarantee everyone land.
Try playing it F2P. Go right ahead. When you have to be online 24 hrs a day, just to get enough LP to make the wood to actually build a farm, OH WAIT, you can't. F2P players cannot own land, cannot have houses, etc. But, for only a monthly fee and the Founders price, you can!! That is bait and switch.
The founders packs sold for one reason alone, and that was the headstart for the land grab. That was the singular reason they were bought. "Nowhere, and really no where did they say buying founders packs would get you land." I notice they conveniently also didnt say "If you buy this, theres still a good chance you wont get land.".
Lets say we went to a movie premiere, and there were limited tickets, so we all bought them up as fast as we could. We get there opening night, only the theatre room your in has no seats. The first thing youll do is find an employee and demand to know why you didnt get a seat when you bought the same tickets the people with seats did. "Well sir, there werent enough seats for everyone, so some of you wont get the full movie experience because you werent lucky enough to get a seat to watch it in."
Your next question inevitably would be "WELL THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU SELL MORE TICKETS THAN YOU HAD SEATS FOR?
/cheers yourself
And this is where it goes wrong, land was not part of the package, no where. Your movie ticket comparison is moot, land was not what you bought, check the store page. Of course there are expectations I agree with that, but nothing was denied, your expectations were not met, that is no less frustrating but really nobodies fault. I bought the 150 package for the alpha client primarely because I am an impatient idiot with a little money lying around, I did not give a damn about land rush, even worse, I got a tiny horrible spot far far away with only enough room for a scarecrow, nothing else.
tldr: I get your frustration, really I do, but the blaming of Trion is not fair in this regard ( and Trion can be blamed for quite a lot in all honesty ).
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
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Make the game world huge.. Problem solved with a mega server. Game worlds nowadays are getting smaller and smaller. It aint like it used to be.
Well there is no sign attached to the muzzle of a gun that warns people that looking directly down the barrel of a loaded weapon could result in bodily harm or death either. It's pretty obvious to most. Those it isn't, well, they learn the hard way.