First week with the SE.
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

Ten Ton Hammer: So do you think you came out with the right amount of servers?

Mark: I think we did come out with a couple too few for the CE, and I think we did come out with the right amount for the first week with the SE. What other people have to realize is that if we put too few servers on and a problem happens at two in the morning, we're not going to be able to do anything about that. The people that give you the high sign to put up more servers may not be there at two or three in the morning. Now the CSRs are there and we do have people watching, But these servers are delicate, it's almost a feel thing.

It's not like we're just watching the numbers and trying to make a decision when to move people over. We really prefer to have a few extra servers now and wait and see what happens over the next week. It hasn't even been a week yet since we went on sale.

Ten Ton Hammer: Are there any plans for reducing scenario wait time? Some players have been getting anxious with how long it's taking one faction compared to the other to get into a RvR scenario.

Mark: This is another thing that involves server population and people that are willing to jump into those RvR scenarios. If you can't seem to get into the RvR scenario, that's why we have open world RvR.

But if one side wants to do open RvR and the other side doesn't, that's going to be a problem. That's a problem with any game, not just WAR. It could be something that happens on the WoW PvP servers or the Camelot servers. If guys don't want to RvR, then they have to sort it out among themselves. You can't force people to RvR. You can't force 'em to PvE.

These things will sort themselves out once we have the transfers going, then people can make the choice if they want to stay on their server or not. They might look at the servers and discover that one is a bit more PvE oriented, so they'll move to that server. But activating anything now, that's just going to make the problem worse.

So will the Orc Choppa be coming back into the game in the next four months? We'll have to wait and see.
Ten Ton Hammer: Do you think there will ever be a time where you tell players what tendency a server has? Maybe put "RvR Scenarios" or "PvE" or "Open World RvR" in parenthesis beside the server name?