Runes of Magic US / AU

lol, good luck, myself and many others (before they quit) asked the same questions and never got a response.

My stab at it -
1: Because Gameforge screwed us over with sales/itemshop while it being a solo server without even siege to hold the server together.

2: Doubt they have 1, more likely they are milking out those who are left, though I can't see how that justifies hosting the server with its costs in the first place.

3: I'm assuming you mean can't, not can. All their reasons for not merging is because they "can't", be it lack of information or because they couldn't be bothered, your guess is as good as mine.

4: Cutting Costs.

Yeh you wanted somebody of 'Authority' to reply, honestly I don't see that ever happening anyway, at least nothing helpful, always the usual bullshit that avoids a proper answer.

Posting on the forums like this will get absolutely nothing done.
Have seen several of similar posts like this...
The greens most likely avoid responding to stuff like this I would think considering there isn't a whole lot they can tell ya.

I think most people do have a general idea to those answers though. Here's my stab at it:

1. They do know why its empty. Moving the server was the last straw, but there's a deeper problem with the game and IS that has no easy solution. It was discussed on US forums several times and nobody really came up with a perfect solution that didn't have large drawbacks. The best propositions was only a band aid slapped on, and not really a permanent, lasting solution.

2. They don't know how to populate it again. If they advertised, any new player going to the AU server is just going to be told by older players to leave because AU is in a state of @#$% anyway, so why bother advertising. This seems to be a common thing in RoM servers on US too. We complain that they don't advertise and get more players to play the game, but as soon as a new player comes on the forums and asks we instantly tel them not to bother playing the game, lol. I think its a bit better on US now, but it still happens a bit.

They're probably just keeping AU alive so that it doesn't cause panic in the other severs. Because as soon as they shut down AU a lot of people on other servers are going to think all servers will close soon and stop spending $$, so that even if server was doing fine before, people will literally cause their fears to become true.

3. Because the don't have confidence that they can do it w/o screwing up, and if they screwed up a US server for 10 people, it'll probably cause them to lose more.

4. To save money.