Hemick
05-28-2009, 01:23 AM
As of right now, Aventurine has made public their decision for transferring characters to the impending NA-1 server. This, in turn, has alienated almost the entirety of their North American playerbase that chose to play the game at its true launch rather than wait for the game to eventually roll out North American servers.
I can understand the need for a new server during the North American release, players don't like to be behind when they first start the game and that allowing players from EU-1 to go directly to NA-1 would be sort of like allowing players to keep their characters from Beta with all of their "ill gotten" gains from bugs and what not. However, by not allowing these players to keep what most of them worked so hard for, Aventurine is effectively punishing their early adopters for sticking it out during the shaky release to play the game.
This is why I propose that rather than allow players to transfer a naked character from EU-1 to NA-1, I propose a better solution, a complete cloning of EU-1 to a secondary NA server, allowing players, clans, everyone to keep everything they worked so hard for, while not preventing the new guys from getting to know the game on their own terms without worry of getting smashed by players that have many months of gametime under their belts.
I can understand the need for a new server during the North American release, players don't like to be behind when they first start the game and that allowing players from EU-1 to go directly to NA-1 would be sort of like allowing players to keep their characters from Beta with all of their "ill gotten" gains from bugs and what not. However, by not allowing these players to keep what most of them worked so hard for, Aventurine is effectively punishing their early adopters for sticking it out during the shaky release to play the game.
This is why I propose that rather than allow players to transfer a naked character from EU-1 to NA-1, I propose a better solution, a complete cloning of EU-1 to a secondary NA server, allowing players, clans, everyone to keep everything they worked so hard for, while not preventing the new guys from getting to know the game on their own terms without worry of getting smashed by players that have many months of gametime under their belts.