Post by Waterfall on Jan 29, 2015 9:34:39 GMT -5
First off, this was an announcement that SOE did not want to make yet, so I would not hold my breath on this happening anytime soon. Let me explain. With this name reclaim thing, someone at SOE was smart enough to think about the future and decided to merge the PS and PC naming list. Meaning now, if a name is taken on PS, and not taken on PC, it is marked as taken on both. This needed to be done eventually, so better now than later. So that’s good. But they didn’t tell anyone this. So people on PC tried to get names that were not yet taken on PC, and couldn’t because it was taken on PS. Which started an avalanche of complaints saying the name reclaim broke stuff..... which it didn’t. They just didn’t share all the info with us. So they were then forced to explain what they did. Meaning.... they had no intention of announcing this yet. Which means that while this is something SOE wants to do, it might not happen at all, and if it does, it will most likely be a long time away still.
Other stuff to keep in mind.
1. There will be a league name merge, and char name merge coming. Most likely this will be done the same as the mega server merge was done. With priority given to names based on creation date and activity. So if you have an alt that you have never played, but just banked the name, even if you created it first, if you never play it, then you might lose that name.
2. The economy is going to take a huge hit. The in game economy on USPC is relatively low, whereas on USPS it is super inflated from money glitches years ago. So when this happens we are all going to notice a huge hit to selling prices on stuff. Basically meaning, when this happens, our millions of dollars saved up will be worthless compared to the hundreds of millions that ppl on PS have, and broker prices will skyrocket. So leading up to this, I would suggest everyone spend almost all of your money on items of value that you can then resell after the merge. Of course no need to do this yet as the merge is a long time away.
3. Do we want to allow PS players in our league? Vent aside, I don’t see why not. However, if ppl cant type in league chat, then there is no point in them joining, and I personally have no intention of playing with voice chat on all the time, which is the typical way PS players communicate. So I think we just need to make it known when ppl join that we are a PC league, so communicating in league chat text is essential.
Other stuff to keep in mind.
1. There will be a league name merge, and char name merge coming. Most likely this will be done the same as the mega server merge was done. With priority given to names based on creation date and activity. So if you have an alt that you have never played, but just banked the name, even if you created it first, if you never play it, then you might lose that name.
2. The economy is going to take a huge hit. The in game economy on USPC is relatively low, whereas on USPS it is super inflated from money glitches years ago. So when this happens we are all going to notice a huge hit to selling prices on stuff. Basically meaning, when this happens, our millions of dollars saved up will be worthless compared to the hundreds of millions that ppl on PS have, and broker prices will skyrocket. So leading up to this, I would suggest everyone spend almost all of your money on items of value that you can then resell after the merge. Of course no need to do this yet as the merge is a long time away.
3. Do we want to allow PS players in our league? Vent aside, I don’t see why not. However, if ppl cant type in league chat, then there is no point in them joining, and I personally have no intention of playing with voice chat on all the time, which is the typical way PS players communicate. So I think we just need to make it known when ppl join that we are a PC league, so communicating in league chat text is essential.