NCSoft Hoping Server Transfers Will Cut Back on Aion’s Looooong Queues

Posted 10/05/2009 at 9:07pm | by Nathan Grayson

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Aion’s really taking off – as per publisher NCSoft’s plans – but with great popularity comes great responsibility. Players are flocking to the game in droves, and unfortunately, the servers can’t bear the load. NCSoft’s solution? Server transfers, of course!

“I’m excited to confirm that we are currently working on implementing a server transfer service beginning next month,” said executive producer Lance Sites. “Specifically, we will offer every player a free one-time server transfer for a limited time to select servers. You can rest assured that addressing the demand for Aion is our biggest priority. And I know a big question is ‘Why did you not deploy more servers?’”

"Most of you are savvy enough to realize that a healthy MMO server needs a robust population. We have to calculate our reasonable concurrency numbers in a week and in a month and beyond. The last thing we want to do to our players is spread them out so that the ‘massively’ in ‘massively multiplayer’ gets lost.”

Here’s hoping that people haven’t been having so much trouble, however, that they don’t just start making server transfers back to World of Warcraft. We’d hate to see such a promising MMO lose its shot at the big time because of a few early technical gaffes.