PSU-PC: Server reduction? Time frame?

[Aralia]

I saw 3/4 of raffon field base games locked today during peak time on universe 2...
People already lock their games to escape "stupid people"

And, as I remember it, PSO had 4 ships on the us servers, 3 (or 5) on the euro, and 15 on the japanese... And each of them never had more than 2 lobbies of a single block full on a single ship per division.
(example for those whi never saw it: US: Vega 1: lobbies 1&2)
Each of those 4 ships had, iirc, 18 blocks... 14 lobbies per block.

Though, back in those days, 1 lobby was all we needed..

My point of this, they aren't gonna reduce the servers.. no use wishing.

[Selket]

Okay .. reducing servers to increase population... Thats just.. welll..

Lets do some simple kindergarden reasoning here.

If i have 5 oranges in a crate that holds 30, it looks pretty empty right? Now i move those oranges into a box that holds only 6. There are still 5 oranges in the box, and nothing has changed however it looks pretty full dosent it? Then we want to add 3 oranges .. OOPS! no room and we sold off our crate! Now we have to wait 3-4 months to get that crate back, this whole time people who want to give us more oranges cant, because we are full. We missed out.

Translation (because some people are dense and will argue about oranges and miss the point):

Shrinking servers does not generate more players, advertisement and upgrades do. If you shrink the servers, sure it looks like more people play, but the population has not changed. When new people want to play and the servers are full, they will go to other games and eventualy not care about this one. It is nothing more than an dangerous illusion that I am sure, sega, who are business men, understand how silly this is (tho some would argue if they are good ones.)

If people are hoping that this will force players to play with other players then you are sorely mistaken. People will play with who they want to play... forcing someone to do so just ends up in people getting fed up with bad party dynamics (heres lookin at you FFXI) and having to rely heavily on other people. Not a direction, I think that Sega wants to go in just yet.

However for the sake of not sounding like a complete downer. Sega went in the right step with the expansion, they are listening to the players. The more the players are happy the more they will tell thier friends and the more people will flock in. As for now, we will have to suck it up, or do some advertising of our own. I see this as a "work in progress" kind of game, and sega has even admited to such in more candid interviews, reffering to the game as a long-term project, "unlike PSO" which was a "accidental hit" thats lasted several years. As long as they keep improving then I am okay with that.

Now you cant please everyone, and trying to do so will destroy everything they have built so far; however i like to think of this game as a work in progress.. Most MMOs and MMORPGs start small, then take time to grow, PSO was this way, FFXI was this way.. the Only exception to the rule was WoW really and thats because the Blizzard cult did the right thing for hyping up thier game, i have to admit this and I HATE WoW.

Anyway i got long winded, and most people stopped reading halfway down this due to short attention spans, so im gonna end here and check the box saying:

"Nah, I don't think that's a good idea"



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[Neggy]

You missed the point, Selket. You move your oranges to the box with a cap of six, and it's now 83% full. Say you have 6 other oranges spread across 17 other boxes, and you get rid of 14 of those boxes, distribute the oranges evenly, you now have one box that's 83% full, and three others that are 66% full. Instead of being condescending, and using your "kindergarten" analogy, let's get real, and use people instead of oranges. People see less servers with more stars, they're going to be more likely to go a Uni other than two. It's very simple. This doesn't increase the population, it will, ideally, give us more Unis to get casual parties on, than Uni 2.

It's simple.