Look at all the other crazy decisions FC makes. Dont ever rule anything out. Especially if it would hurt FCs reputation, they seem to be swayed to making decisions that impact their company negatively, almost like a saboteur is in charge…
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If they delete official servers, what are they going to do with character progression of said servers?
long ago I played many and have many different characters, are you suggesting they delete the progress of countless of players?
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Yes. You think they gonna pay for this servers forever? I can bet my left ■■■■■■■■ they gonna shut it down as soon as contract is over. There’s just not enough of players online - couple eu pvp servers populated and maybe 1-2 us.
It’s holiday time, out of quarantine season, half of september and people are gonna come around again.
Im not talking about playerbase right now but overall, even at peaks official servers are mostly empty.
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Server transfers exists now, so there is the option to be booted to an active server with all the progress saved.
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Not exactly, your building progress+followers will be wiped and you will likely only be able to carry over what is on your char.
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If there are any servers that are completely empty (no players popped on for over 2 weeks) then there may be some servers to downsize for something else. (Assuming they have a contract, so they still are paying for these servers no matter its up or not). I also noted that people being away - based on decay rules so they do not come back to a missing server when they had 2 weeks available.
Please note, a server that appears empty, may have players on them. They are just not active all the time.
What would they do with these extra servers (if any were available with the setup I wrote above), can run into various new ideas/rule sets.
For example, they could create those servers that wipe every three months. Granted a little bit more work on their end but may get a player base that will enjoy starting over every 3 months. No more issues of clutter at least for those servers. Any clutter issues would wipe in 3 months so nothing to report to Funcom and they have less servers to manage on issue basis (beyond cheating/bug issues.)
To be honest, I am not sure there is many (or any) servers has 0 population in 2+ weeks.
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Neither are people who keep insisting that consolidating servers is a good idea despite all the counterarguments, but that ain’t stopping them 
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As we all know building is always ‘temporary’ within 14 days decay time - most of people don’t tend to refresh timers all the time for long months anyway… and those spots should be left for someone else if You don’t play game - just log in everyday for 5 min to keep spots is just cheap.
Yeah that makes sense, i bet those servers would get new playerbase, but like i said we need ‘police’ on servers.
No server is EMPTY. Someone plays there, most likely at least a handful of people. A great way to lose them as potential DLC customers, or customers for future products in general, would be to shut down the server and cost them all of their time investment. This is not a case of simply transferring a character to another server, buildings, thralls, etc would be lost. Just not a good idea by an means.
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There is also the issue of players who plan to come back but don’t keep updating their structures because they will be gone a long time and don’t want to bother or don’t want to claim land they won’t be using
They can grab a bunch of equipment and come back later with all their progress and a bunch of items in their inventory to help them quickly get back to close to full power
I always see the same two reasons players choose official servers:
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they fear the potential of unfair or abusive admins
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they fear private servers will shut down
Shutting down servers would go against one of the biggest reasons many people choose to use them in the first place
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