merge the servers, from the bottom of my heart
Kaia has never had such a low population, as someone who comes from Celestial Hills, one of the least populated servers in TERA NA history, Kaia now has an even lower population than Celestial Hills ever did
everyone is leaving and people are getting desperate
if you have any love for the game you take care of, I promise server merging is the best thing to do for us
At this point since the dust has long settled following the migration, there needs to be a merge and it needs to be fast or this game WILL die completely. You cannot kill anyone as outlaw now because if you do you get 10k infamy even at the same level. There is literally no reason not to now. The broker is empty, no LFG, all the big guilds that used to have 30+ members online at same time are dead or close to it. CUV is pretty much dead no one GVGs anymore.
Please just do it and be done with it. Sure people will lose names me included, but would you rather hold onto your dear precious names and have the game literally die or merge lose the names and possibly revive the game.
Please take this into consideration Gameforge
Pretty much, merge is the only way to save some player activity. GameForge shown us they are not interested on marketing the game any more and much less try to revive pvp server activity. If that is going to be that way then a merge should be done promptly.
In my opinion, merge won't solve anything. It might end up killing both servers due to disagreement between Kaia and Velik's players.
Let Velik and Kaia be as is
In my opinion, merge won't solve anything. It might end up killing both servers due to disagreement between Kaia and Velik's players.
Let Velik and Kaia be as is
That's just ridiculous, then with your logic players from Kaiator should not be able to transfer or create characters on Velika. And just to let you know an big amount of people from Kaiator already are playing on Velika so your comment is really moot.
At least give a solid argument and not something that feels either like a joke or like a discriminatory comment.
That's just ridiculous, then with your logic players from Kaiator should not be able to transfer or create characters on Velika. And just to let you know an big amount of people from Kaiator already are playing on Velika so your comment is really moot.
At least give a solid argument and not something that feels either like a joke or like a discriminatory comment.
Yeah thats because some of them are velik players that transferred to kaia and now back to velik. Kaia has been much less populated for over a year now and why isn't it getting merged since that time? There must be a reason for that.
Yeah thats because some of them are velik players that transferred to kaia and now back to velik. Kaia has been much less populated for over a year now and why isn't it getting merged since that time? There must be a reason for that.
If your skull is so thick that cant get "why?" Kaiator and Velik hasnt been merged then let me tell you the main reason, EME in the last year and GameForge now are waiting till the last second because they want players to "spend" money on server transfers before merging servers. And the only way to transfer is for someone to spend real money into that because even the vouchers you may find on broker, if there is some still, were bought in cash shop.
Thats a pretty cheap move from publishers and pretty much shows they rather milk away money from the few players they can and get the game shutdown in a short term than coming to a merge and try to retain as most players they can making more money in the long term.
Its just their business model thats that.
If your skull is so thick that cant get "why?" Kaiator and Velik hasnt been merged then let me tell you the main reason, EME in the last year and GameForge now are waiting till the last second because they want players to "spend" money on server transfers before merging servers. And the only way to transfer is for someone to spend real money into that because even the vouchers you may find on broker, if there is some still, were bought in cash shop.
Thats a pretty cheap move from publishers and pretty much shows they rather milk away money from the few players they can and get the game shutdown in a short term than coming to a merge and try to retain as most players they can making more money in the long term.
Its just their business model thats that.
Well thanks for pointing that out so what i see is just a money that players do not want to spend on and rather looking for free transfers sorry to say that.
As you mentioned there is big amount of people from Kaiator already are playing on Velik hence publishers don't see there is an issue either they level up from 0 and re-gear or transfer. Another way to say is publishers don't see benefit from free transferring and of course first because there is already even a voucher you may find in broker that you can spend with gold which bought by another player with $$ also as you mentioned this is just their business model.
Well thanks for pointing that out so what i see is just a money that players do not want to spend on and rather looking for free transfers sorry to say that.
As you mentioned there is big amount of people from Kaiator already are playing on Velik hence publishers don't see there is an issue either they level up from 0 and re-gear or transfer. Another way to say is publishers don't see benefit from free transferring and of course first because there is already even a voucher you may find in broker that you can spend with gold which bought by another player with $$ also as you mentioned this is just their business model.
people would transfer if things like Friendship Bonds, Cards collection and EP weren't a thing, EP being the easiest to farm back but it's still a loss and transferring all of your characters would be really expensive.
I would argue that a server merge would bring back a lot more people to the game and make the merged server a lot more alive than either server right now.
I hardly can find LFGs on Kaia...
No one wants to do Tier 4 Dungeons or when i want to do tier 3 dungeons or below they just simply use the IM function.
But Tier 4 IM? thats insanity if you ask me.
People knows how trappy can be IM when someone specially from Velik IM that and does little to no dps or mechs that tend ending on wipes.
I have been trying to LFG for days for tier 4 dungeons cause i want to either learn them or run them but jeez...
No one on Kaia wants to run those or simply they are static on one group accounts that only run themselves ignoring the rest of the players while they can get skilled at those...
Other players that used to run hard dungeons cant longer find learning runs for those dungeons cause simply they just shut their doors or they just dont run them anymore cause they p2w the materials
And the matter of pvp?
its DEAD...
Too much infamy from killing someone made things annoying for many players, and the way Battlegrounds equalized gear and class disbalance is kinda discouraging to keep pvping at all...
Not only to mention that dumb lv 65 pvp cap for OW just actually killed it.
Might as well start rewarding new accounts on dungeons to motivate to run harder stuff instead of the same easy tier 3 or lower dungeons.
people would transfer if things like Friendship Bonds, Cards collection and EP weren't a thing, EP being the easiest to farm back but it's still a loss and transferring all of your characters would be really expensive.
I would argue that a server merge would bring back a lot more people to the game and make the merged server a lot more alive than either server right now.
agree completely, also while GF might be trying to milk whatever revenue they can out of server transfers right now it would probably be cheaper for them in the long run to pay to run and maintain only one server instead of two
also important to note, its not just KT players who want this merge, VK players want it too. it'll make the game feel more lively and remove the hassle and setbacks that come with trying to cross-queue dungeons with your friends on the other server 
There are too many reasons why I refuse to transfer
1. Card collection: it took me a long time and a great deal of money to get to 30000+ points for level 5.
2. I am in a guild that has a lot of old friends and I will not quit this guild just because of the publishers own damn fault.
3. Cost of transferring all my played characters would cost me way more than I'm willing to dish out and not only that there is a limit on how much gold that can be transferred.
4. EP points would also reset and I just don't feel like starting over again.
5. Names. I want to make sure I keep my mains name(and maybe my most played alt) through a merge. Yes I know I will lose some during a merge but I am okay with that part.
6. Travel journal saved locations, I have several saves that you can not ever get to again because of invisible walls and I like to hang out in those places sometimes for nostalgia purposes.
Display MoreThere are too many reasons why I refuse to transfer
1. Card collection: it took me a long time and a great deal of money to get to 30000+ points for level 5.
2. I am in a guild that has a lot of old friends and I will not quit this guild just because of the publishers own damn fault.
3. Cost of transferring all my played characters would cost me way more than I'm willing to dish out and not only that there is a limit on how much gold that can be transferred.
4. EP points would also reset and I just don't feel like starting over again.
5. Names. I want to make sure I keep my mains name(and maybe my most played alt) through a merge. Yes I know I will lose some during a merge but I am okay with that part.
6. Travel journal saved locations, I have several saves that you can not ever get to again because of invisible walls and I like to hang out in those places sometimes for nostalgia purposes.
This post explains it.
A friend of mine transferred to Velik, says things are WAY more lively than it is on Kaia, told me he could run tier 4 dungeons (hardest ones) with many people dedicated to run them up
On Kaia... good luck finding statics, its a nightmare to find something and to sync when to do it also its a nightmare.
About the PvP situation, well we dont care anymore tbh, its more of a popularity contest and the rewards are quite crappy making it not even worth running at all.
I dont want to transfer either cause i would also lose teleport locations, EP, Cards, BANK SLOTS, and many other things i cant transfer from the bank in there.
Please merge Kaia and Velik!
I started out recently playing TERA, some friends invited me to play, most of them are veterans they played when the pvp was a thing, so they always been here on Kaia (or whatever was its name back then).
As now i reached +6 Kaia's Soul me and another friend that are looking to max our gear, we just cant find groups for hard dungeons on instance matching search, plus i've made a character just to compare population and market on Velik and at least it seems its much more active, much better prices at broker too.
Then i was considering transfering at least my main character to Velik, but seeing Rose's post i just dont wanna basically start over stuff that takes quite a long time to get them!
So...please GameForge, consider a merge, as of current state i dont think i want to continue playing because i feel like i'm stuck in progression (which is another thing that is very frustating already due to RNG!!).
Lately over the last couple weeks I have not been able to sell anything but feedstock and the occasional belt brooch or mask on Kaia. I use discord, trade broker and global/trade to try and sell stuff, and nothing sells on Kaia. People have had enough and are quitting or transferring making it worse.
A game is meant to fun and entertaining, not be stressful because you can't even make enough ****ing gold to enchant your own gear. Gameforge is unprofessional and doesn't even care about this game at all.
14 days since the last post here, and not even a simple "we're looking into solutions"? this problem isn't going away, on the contrary, it's getting worse by the day. don't we have community managers who read the forums, and (try to) understand the playerbase? isn't that the point of a community manager? either i have my whole profession misunderstood, or something's wrong here...
this is getting to the point to where you're going to make your most dedicated players quit, for what? a few dollars? logically, you'd want to keep them around because happy players = more $$$. the reason i say these are the most dedicated is that the people left are playing on a desolate wasteland of a server, literally hoping for some semblance of care from the publisher. most people would have quit at this rate. those who have quit already likely won't come back, and even if they do, that scar of "well you made me wait 6 months in a dead server lol" isn't going to go away.
legitimately confused on the strategy here, or if this is just willful ignorance. coming from a velik player, this is getting depressing to witness.
