Do these get read?

[Azarak]

I'm a returning player and I just wanted to talk about a few things I noticed after playing for a bit. The server performance on the highest population server Argonnessen is really bad and a huge issue. There is constant lag where the character can freeze completely for a long time even when you don't have anyone in your group resulting in death for me several times. The game also is not very fun to play on the lower population servers. So my suggestion is Overhaul your server systems and make this your top priority, you need a global server like ESO has ideally but something where you can visit other servers ( FFXIV ) or cross server play ( WOW ) would also work. While you are doing this fix the lag... The other thing that would be even easier that would really help modernize the game is to do an upscale pass of all the textures, there are programs out there that can make this an automated process with AI up-scaling.

[Riffolk]

I'll do my best to answer your questions:

1) Server performance/lag is certainly a recognized issue within DDO. Developers have agreed and last I heard they were contributing extra resources to try to track down sources of lag within game.
It is frustrating but many put up with it out of appreciation for the game.

2) There have been many conversations about consolidating the game servers. The producers letter from last year stated plans for a 'Megaserver' though there were issues around name changes + moving guilds.

3) Updating textures sounds like a great idea. I don't know if you have access to some of the newer quest areas (Sharn, Feywild, Saltmarsh) but I find them more appealing. I think the challenge becomes updating the host of older/more outdated areas to match the newer areas.

Great feedback. You can certainly rest assured that you aren't alone in your worries/frustrations with the game.

[magaiti]

It is probably high population of Argo that causes lag.
Considering this, server merge would make things considerably worse due to increased population of the megaserver.
It would be unwise to merge servers until lag issues are radically resolved. Which is probably never, considering devs have been trying for years already, and so far only few fringe cases of lag have been resolved.

There's an option in the game launcher for a better resolution textures pack, which will download a few GB of hi-res textures for the game to use.

[Cordovan]

Yes, your posts get read. We have been working specifically on some areas for game performance improvement, and we hope to begin seeing some results of that work in the coming weeks.