Discussion: One game, one global server access

Reading through the whole thread I think it is very apparent that the majority of the EU players would sacrafice 132 extra slots on various servers just to keep their Global names.

I think the devs need to take stock that if another fairer system can't be managed, then they should just leave the servers alone. I don't want to lose my Global, but more importantly I don't want to lose friends who leave because of the way they were treated.

To me my @global is more important then any future content in development, it's took me 6 years to make my global what it is today and I would prefer my £8.99 per month to go towards a fairer way of merging servers rather than the next TF/Trial they maybe working on.

I for one want the server list merge. I won't be happy if I should lose mereman, I've used it on the net for almost 17 years, but I'm not going to cut off my nose to spite my face.

Just posting to show that not all EU players want the current setup.

Oh well after today's announcement it seems things will proceed as stated and a lot of our views on this thread have been sent to the archives forever.

Still no mention to whether or not trial accounts being made as we speak will effect us, but not holding my breath.

All I can say is it leaves a bitter taste in mouth and i'm sorry but if I lose my global to someone who has been here less then 77mths and they appear on my home server please do not expect a warm welcome.

I think to some the paragraph above may suck and seem like i'm acting like a child but right about now thats all I have left for this conversation and civilness pretty much just left the building.

If this is going through as previously stated, I think most of us that will lose our globals would have a much easier time if someone actually gave us the facts they based the decisions on. Who knows we might even agree that it's the best solution, even if it will hurt us personally. This far we have only been given hand waves and general statments, which makes it hard to belive that the powers that be have given it much more thought than how to do damage control without telling outright lies. I do not blame any of the community reps, your probably have limits on what you're allowed to tell people. I'm just suggesting that if people knew why the decision was made, it might make them accept it better.

well it does say in the producers letter that this way its hundreds of active EU accounts affected versus thousands of active US ones but it doesn't say if those hundreds of active EU ones are loosing out to active US ones, my guess is not because otherwise both numbers would be the same.

sourced from producer letter

I have one question; will we be able to ask help from EU techincal support, if we have a North American account ?

Because So many people are locked out of their accounts right now, thanks for your "New Security Update on NCsoft Master Accounts", and your support staff just give NO answer or information about it, despite the number of tickets we send.

Maybe the european team will really listen to your customers and help them ?
Of course it's not like that I expect an answer here, just wondering...

As an NA player, I have to agree with the EU players on how they are getting shafted on the global names policy. I've been in that boat before with losing character names on server merges in Everquest (like my necromancer Joslyn became Joslynx and my mage Drusilia became Drusiliax), however my account was inactive for nearly a year at the time, so I got the shaft, as it should have been. However, had my account been active, I am pretty sure that the age of the character is/was taken into account. This is the way it should be IMO. If on the off chance my global is the same as a EU player, if that player has been playing longer than me, I would accept NA before my name. I would not appreciate it if it were being done to us the way it's being done to the EU Players.

You still have time to fix this for them, please do.

What I believe needs to happen is server consolidation. Cut both lists in half, pool the server resources so every server has 4+ dots at a time with the maximum per server around 10. This would solve so many problems with people unable to find groups. Plus, maybe we then we can run an ITF or Incarnate trial without massive lag affecting everyone.

I have made my way through alot of this and agree the reason I stepped away from the game is the inability to get in TF that make it to the end. I logged in waited 4 hours for ITF to even start to form. After another hour of recruiting we'd head out a man or 2 short make it through the 1st couple missions until one or 2 players would time out from no longer moving leaving the 3 of us to wonder how we are ever going to pull apart the nexus.

I always hated posters that stated how much easier it is to find teams on this game or that game. How the search engine over here works compared to CoX.

For 6 years I lived and bleed CoX and enjoyed so much of it. Then I realized that if you stay a loyal customer meant more to them then me have being a loyal customer did. I applaud the devs efforts to keep blowing new life into such a great game. I have wanted 50+ content ever since I leveled my 1st toon to 50 and just hated "retiring" him.

Incarnate oh hell yeah alpha slots, branching I feel that finally the game has enough content to actually draw back alot of guys that left. I get into a TF within the first 10 minutes of trying. Players doing TF again sweet 1st ten minutes 4 players drop same old end game.

Looking for an active list of players not fillers I have a couple months left on my subscription and it is really a trial account at this point. The "price" of loyality has just become offensive. Stay through April get into beta stay through get this glowie under you. Whatever happened to hey thanks for being here this long.

Sorry