Funcom Merge needs to Happen soon

[K4nnyc]

merges will not save AOC

you will get some extra players for 4-5 months and then the decline will set in just like after every other server merge that happened before.

you need pvp and pve game systems - game systems funcom

wake up funcom

/face slap to game director

[Arishanya]

Since Joel has already commented on the merge previously in this thread, I'm going to shut this one down. In case you didn't look back through this thread to see it:

Update on the merge:

It's all pretty much in the hands of operations and the DBAs now. This is a much more complex operation than the previous merges have been and there are a lot of things to consider.

For example, if merging 1 character takes 10secs, then we are looking at about a week of downtime to get the entire merge done.

Obviously this is unacceptable and there are a lot of ways to optimize the process. But it takes some time to run optimizations and ensure that they are correct. At the moment, we are working on getting the merge speed to an acceptable level - and then making sure that archived (really old inactive characters) are given low priority during the merge.

Trust me, I am impatient to see this happen as well. But we want to get it right so that it goes smoothly from the moment you log in after the merge.