Hello. Forgive me if my Engelisch isn't that good (i'm from the Netherlands).

I like to know what you guys think about this:

If ESO sells a large amount of game copies, like WoW. So for example there will be around 500.000 players (which is less compaired to WoW) on ONE server, of which 200.000 players will be in the pvp area, which leaves me with one simple question:

How will this ever be manageble?!

Please let me know what you think.

I think you should research how the Megaserver actually works. http://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/list/kw/Megaserver/sno/1/search/1/session/L3RpbWUvMTM3NTIxODU1Ny9zaWQvRGtpd0l4d2w%3D

The mega server will create instances of Cyrodiil which is the PvP area of ESO as it needs them, and each instance will be capped at 2000 players each. An instance of Cyrodiil is the entire thing, all the cities, all the keeps, everything that is located in Cyrodiil.

So if say 1 million players all want to fight in the war in Cyrodiil at the same time, the mega server will need to create 500 separate instances of Cyrodiil to accommodate all of those 1 million players and all 500 of them would be running simultaneously.

Honestly if they get upwards of 10 million players like WoW had at one time I can't see how this mega server technology will handle it but all we can do is wait and see how it all works out I guess....

Nope it not ..Age of Conan got it and was a total mess ...I really dont know why devs want to "reinvent the well".

We all know a mega server with many switchable shards/channels is exactly a normal game with many servers :/ but that allow players to chaotically change them how they like for a price of course.

For me is a gimmick to attract people ..when they see OMG one big server that hold 500k players !!! Well is not the case sadly

So actually there will be kind of like different servers...

thanks by the way for the information! Can't wait untill friday, when they will be showing the gameplay!

I dig the megaserver, but that's just me.

Yes ...this "mega server" will have many channels/instances that people when cant enter in an area because of lag or because is full are redirect in other channels.

Those channels/instances work really like some mini shards/servers ,and is nothing new ,some games like Aoc or Aion got them and for many was not a good implement

Yeah. It is just going to be behind the scenes and you can switch between them. The game will place you with your friends and guildmates instead of you having to pick a server.