I just wanna start this by saying I'm hyped about the new "expansion", it seems really interesting and it might spur a lot of new interesting gameplay and rp and kind of revitalise the game somewhat.
However, I can't help but be concerned about the expansion for a simple reason:
From what I hear, Korvara will be difficult to access ICly and it may even require some sort of approval? If so, it would probably cause a huge division in the already thin playerbase. I know personally I'm interested in making a "korvana-only" character to experience it, but also a lot of the things I love about this game are tied to the Six. I invested months into multiple characters and, essentially, having Korvana be a standalone environment would make it compete with the Six in a strange way, meaning when you log in you kinda choose "Okay am I playing on Korvana or on the Six". There's already an issue of low population so splitting up people would mean both korvana and the mainland might not get enough traffic.
I just wanted to raise this concern here because it seems it's shared by a lot of people.
And I'm sorry to raise concerns based solely on what is essentially a teaser, but it would be nice to have information on that aspect so we can plan out in advance what we're going to want to do with that expansion.
Edit: To clarify, none of my existing characters would be interested in going to Korvara ICly even if I would be, so it's likely I would need to make a new character even if it's possible to do a 'transfer', and I imagine that's the same for many others
However, I can't help but be concerned about the expansion for a simple reason:
From what I hear, Korvara will be difficult to access ICly and it may even require some sort of approval? If so, it would probably cause a huge division in the already thin playerbase. I know personally I'm interested in making a "korvana-only" character to experience it, but also a lot of the things I love about this game are tied to the Six. I invested months into multiple characters and, essentially, having Korvana be a standalone environment would make it compete with the Six in a strange way, meaning when you log in you kinda choose "Okay am I playing on Korvana or on the Six". There's already an issue of low population so splitting up people would mean both korvana and the mainland might not get enough traffic.
I just wanted to raise this concern here because it seems it's shared by a lot of people.
And I'm sorry to raise concerns based solely on what is essentially a teaser, but it would be nice to have information on that aspect so we can plan out in advance what we're going to want to do with that expansion.
Edit: To clarify, none of my existing characters would be interested in going to Korvara ICly even if I would be, so it's likely I would need to make a new character even if it's possible to do a 'transfer', and I imagine that's the same for many others