Just to shed some light on the topic, I’ve been supporting this game and even bought every single DLC but this is just a slap on the face. To have so much restrictions on this game (trades, etc.), now friends are NOT allowed to play together if they are paying customers or ‘F2Pers’ - too much exclusivity that it will down right ruin the game’s future.
And even with this somewhat ‘rash’ decision of separating the F2Pers it’s pretty certain that the F2P servers will be over 10x more overloaded than Telsiai (considering just about anyone can register and play the game, plus those who will start over from other servers just to be with their friends). I mean seriously, if the physical servers can’t handle the amount of players now, how much more when the game goes F2P?
What’s really confusing though, is back in the RO days, with the crappy technology and computers we had, players could still play in the server of their choice despite being so crowded. Surely technology has already evolved since then, and physical servers are way more powerful now. I mean, WoW even had 12 million players in their servers and that was almost 10 years ago.