IMCGAMES has updated Tree of Savior fans on its founder server and future free-to-play plans.
The studio says Tree of Savior’s initial founder’s server will open at 2 a.m. EDT on March 29th — this coming Tuesday morning. Based on Steam sales data to date, IMCGAMES says it thinks it has determined the “optimal player-per-server ratio” and has standby servers prepped to avoid queues and make that launch not be a total clusterfudge.
If you prefer to wait out the rush, you might want to hold off until April 21st, when the founder’s server exclusive access packs will be marked down by 30% “to compensate for the lack of head-start,” which is remarkably reasonable.
Regional servers, says the studio, aren’t currently in the works as the Steam data don’t support them, but it will “be offering a 1-time team transfer to regional servers if and when they are created.”
As for the F2P transition itself, here’s the plan:
As we have previously announced, we are planning on creating new worlds if there is a sufficient influx of new players when the game releases to the mass public. However, we will not be creating new worlds immediately upon release. We are planning on opening them gradually in accordance to the influx of new players. We are aware that the number of players per world is extremely important to an MMORPG and do not want the population divided. Players on the Founder’s servers may feel like they are being penalized if the new worlds are immediately opened and all the new players go to those servers. We will be offering 1-time Team transfers to those who purchased Founder’s Server: Exclusive Access. [… ] The transfers will happen approximately 3 weeks after the new worlds are created in order to ensure that some of the head-start effects brought by older players are reduced.
