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Closed World transfer disaster. Huge screw up by Nexon.
and 23 others.
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"Let's leap to Bera! NX've ignored our server!"
"So boring! FM like a cementary!"
Really disappointed. But now I write these word, I'm not sure they can reach to NX!
The funny thing is Bera was more or less dead before the world transfer event as well; roughly 5-10 people in Henesys and almost all of them are afking. An FM6 spot was easily available to anyone with a shop permit.
I understand Bera is still more populated that those with world merges, but it's how players decided to loophole around Nexon's ignorance to just merge all the worlds (except reboot/luna) into 1 server: by having everyone just jump into Bera.
But you must understand that Nexon actually gave us a chance for a world merge, if we ALL moved (and that's what happened at the end
Thanks God I moved to Scania along with my guild, ally, friends.
could've just kept it clean and simple with 3 servers at the most
On a serious note though, Nexon's lack of foresight and competence is really shameful, especially considering they blocked off Windia to transfer into because reasons. At this point, a server merge (NOT an alliance) is necessary to save the dying worlds.
Another bad mistake !
they will never apologize, they permanently banned legit accounts that were holding arcane weapon for their friends for 10 minutes tagged the accounts as EXPLOIT and never investigated while lying to the community about it.
I expect nothing from nexon and its employees. the job requirements are probably very low and the players pay for it.
scania is dead, FM is empty. there are 3-4 groups left there fighting each other with free smegas.
The World Leap event gave power to the Maplers on which world to leap to. Maplers were never forced to move to a specific world and it was a community effort to populate Bera. As a result, a number of worlds saw a decline of population and this is something we've taken notice to as well.
Could it have been anticipated that the community would select a single server to move to? Could we have been aware that this collaboration would cause the world to hit a limit? From what the initial announcement details entail, we didn't, and for that we apologize.
At this point it can't be helped with what should've been done, however, we can focus on what needs to be done. There are players who are unable to leap to Bera due to an issue that wasn't foreseen with the introduction of this event. Players aren't the ones to fault for this and we will be investigating if anything can be done to resolve the issue.
Now onto the topic of world merges, we hear you guys.
Everything is being taken into consideration as a world merge is no easy decision and task. We want to make sure we have all the data which means looking at the number of active Maplers on each world on the surface, internal, and seasonal. While it may be clear to many that a world merge should be in order right now (especially with the world leap event affecting population) the leap event makes it difficult to get a concrete data pull with the dust still being kicked and Maplers still moving. Once the dust settles and we have a firm grasp of the final data, we can take direction from there.
That's the issue I have, "They gave everyone the chance to move to Bera". This is what happens when people bandwagon without any regard for what happens afterward. This is why Peep's right. There should've been a server merge before a transfer, it's the only thing that would've made sense. Instead, we got this botched attempt at players trying to make their own server merge. But you seem so stuck to your "Bera supremacy" that you can't see that this entire thing was a mistake. This is such an enormous blow to the stability of population, that the effects are going to be seen months from now. As of this transfer, Maple is completely fragmented.
One thing I would like you to communicate to the team, is that careful thought should be given to the decision whether to merge or ally worlds.
Alliance
Advantages
- Easier to create. GMS has had several of them created, and I assume the relevant teams still retain the knowledge of how to do it and how to handle an alliance.
- The process is nearly transparent to the users: they keep logging in to the same world (or worlds), seeing the same characters on their character selection screens, the same items in their storage, and so on. The only thing that visibly changes is guild names (in case of duplicates). And the population suddenly increases, because the players from one world can see, and interact with, players from all the other worlds in the alliance.
Disadvantages:
- Requires a hierarchical world-select page. On the first page, select "the alliance", and then another page or sub-menu opens with the worlds of the alliance.
- Players can't have characters, who originated in separate worlds, share storage, legion, monster collection, etc.
- Players can abuse certain content that is supposed to be "once per world per account" and do it multiple times on multiple worlds in the alliance. Note that this is also possible with the existing alliances, and presumably considered by Nexon to not be a big issue.
Merge
Advantages
- The result is "cleaner": a single world which behaves like all other worlds (or almost so - some accounts might have more characters than the cap, for example).
Disadvantages
- GMS has no experience with world merges, except the EU one, which was confounded with the migration. Anything that is done for the first time is more likely to be buggy.
- For accounts that have more than the cap of such things as characters, storage slots, or cash items, allowances need to be made that make cause bugs. For example, during the EU merge, some accounts became glitched so that they could not use Character Slot Coupons despite not having anywhere near the cap of slots in use.
- Users have to be aware of what is happening and possibly even cooperate with the process (by selecting characters and collections to keep). Users that happen to be on hiatus while the merge is happening, might return and become very confused as to what world they are supposed to log in to, and where all their characters and items are.
- The EU merge/migration caused all guilds, buddy lists, and marriages to be broken. I hope this was only due to the migration, and a full world merge would not do this. But if it's an inevitable part of a merge, then it is, of course, undesirable.
Aside from those concerns I really don't care personally if they do alliance or true merge, both are fine. I know some people are getting a bit concerned with the idea of having 15 servers but they're actually one server on the selection page...
As for who we get merged/allied with: obviously I don't have the data but we've been concerned with the low population on bellocan/mybckn since BEFORE the transfers. Now with the tiny amount of players left on grazed-broni-mybckn... even that may not be a healthy population size anymore. Consider adding windia as well. I only have what I hear from windans (I don't play there) but they claim it's rather small now post merge.
I think you're probably right that this scale of transfers was likely unforeseen. I do believe however that it should have been expected that a significant amount would move to the largest server. We've been asking for alliances/merges as long as we've been asking for transfers after all...
does anyone still believe to what you say ? you were lying here since your day 1.
where are all the scanians who got perm banned for buying arcane weapon ? you and GM were lying on live stream and here saying that only those who obtained the weapons are perm banned. such a lie ! how can you sleep at night ? I hope that life will teach you a lesson or too.
Your apology on Nexon's behalf would appear to the public as more sincere and welcomed, if that apology wasn't just a simple statement and more of an apologetic display in the form of releasing Violet Cubes for sale on their own in the cash shop for a short period of time or releasing 5 purchasable bonus potential cubes in the reward shop permanently. Trust you and me if you did that you would instantly be forgiven and a lot of people would be very happy
Yikes. Why do you guys always want compensation in form of gifts? Just give us a good PQ or some worthwhile events.
Since Bera looks more populated than Scania, the best options would be to alliance the remaining servers with Scania or go Scania-Windia-Khroa/Bera-GRAZED-MYBACON coz theyre in that order in the selection screen anyways.
We've been waiting for 2 years, and this World Leap event is not enough information for merging? Do we need to wait till 20th anniversary?
What I think Nexon could do is have ANOTHER World Leap event, and this time include Scania, Windia, Bera, BK, MYBCKN, and GAZED to be open up. This will give players more option, which may or may not lessen the whole "bandwagon" deal. It will allow those who have left to return back to their home world if they wanted to as well. The more options there are, the more spread out the population will be. This is just my opinion on all of this.