I think this will really help the health of the game, and help keep it from dying early.

Games do merge servers, but most do it as a last resort. Rather than waiting till a problem arises, it would be better if they actively tried to stop the problem in the first place.

Agreed, I've actually seen the opposite. Like I said in my server there has never been a war that was filled up. Most we ever had was 5 group, so we never even seen a 8 group ninja war. This post was last edited by Dragonfire14 at 2016-9-9 10:39

In my post I stated that I know that new servers are a quick easy way to earn money. But that being said they can just as easily do events in the current servers to generate more money. Also they already have many ways to generate money, without the need to open new servers. Developing games is more than a business, it is a balancing act. You must balance making profits, and your company's relationship with the players. The direction the game is going right now leads to older server becoming obsolete due to lack of players to compete in content. Which in cause will lead to players leaving the game. Instead of making a new server to make money on the new server events, why not do new PLAYER events. Where new players will receive rewards based on goals, and recharges etc. Plus Players from old servers generate money as well. Whether it be through medals, or recharge events like the one currently going on, or just through seal scroll purchases. Hurting the health of your game just for a quick easy profit is not the way to go about it. And Bandai one of the publishers of the game know that. Look at their mobile game One Piece Treasure Cruise. Much like this game, but it knows how to get money without hurting the game, or community.

Yes there WERE great, but this post isn't about those. It is about new servers in general. The problem isn't that they have new server events, but rather they have new servers. Too many servers divide the player base too much making content not doable, or just boring to do. In the great ninja war this week my group is automatically guaranteed at least 2nd due to only 3 groups existing in the war.

My server is S55, and I picked it because it just auto picked it for me. I first seen this game as a random ad on facebook and decided to give it a shot, didn't put too much thought into the start up of it. And as you described your server probably doesn't need any new players, because content is being filled up and completed. But that is not the same for a lot of servers. I can't speak for any server but my own, but I would guess there are few servers that have a full Great Ninja War. Or if they do, have a war that is actually filled with groups that can fight (as in more than one member per zone). I'm not saying Naruto Online needs one giant super server, what I am saying is it doesn't need a million servers with 200 people in each.

Also you say it is too early to start merging servers, so when is it not? When there are 100 servers with 6 people on each? Ok maybe don't merge servers right this second, but at least stop the problem from getting worse.

Yes I agree, there are players out there that will wait for a game to reach out to them before they jump in. But there is other ways to reach out to players. Like I suggested instead of a new server event, have new player events. For example take all the new server event bonuses and make it so when a player starts their character those events are open to them for x amount of time. And I never said that stopping new servers would flock players to my server in particular. My argument is that if they stop new servers, new players will have to join servers that are already made. Maybe instead of new servers being the recommended they could go by server population, and lower populations will be recommended first.

As for merging, yes I can agree that for now there is no need to merge at this second. But If they stop opening new servers and let the current ones fill up there could even be a chance the problem will fix itself. Stopping new servers from opening will not hinder their production scheduled for new content either.

And as for not having server stats, we kinda do. If you look through the rankings, you can track player progression. If you look at group rankings you can get a good estimate on number of active players. Most groups kick the non-active players, so you can assume that all players in a group are somewhat active. Also by tracking power levels in the top 100 class rankings you can track how active 500 players are being. I started tracking some of this data, and it is too early to make any conclusions from them.