Dev response to Server Merge please.

[Seillan]

Is there a server that a majority of NA players transferred to because my server is pretty much dead for doing anything really. Someone told me there was one or two servers that the majority of the NA playerbase moved do anyone know what that is?

If I had to guess, I'd say Asura is probably one of them. A lot of new/returning NA players (or English speaking players anyway) tend to join the reddit linkshell there. I'm hoping to do the same once I get more time for playing again.

[InpendingDeath]

Is there a server that a majority of NA players transferred to because my server is pretty much dead for doing anything really. Someone told me there was one or two servers that the majority of the NA playerbase moved do anyone know what that is?

I'd guess asura is one also a lot of people from my LS have up and moved there.

[Missdivine]

None of this make sense to begin with, making a linkshell is hard nowdays because low population and most players on go online but afk/bazzaring or doing their own thing
ffxi is just made for hardcore players now, and the casuals are abandoned because they don't have stuff to get done. thats why i quit ffxi because it have become a sad offline mmorpg with npcs

[Ris]

I'd guess asura is one also a lot of people from my LS have up and moved there.

I recently moved to Asura to follow a friend and... it's night and day from Odin. So many more people.
But the community seems kind of meaner so I might move away again...

[Malithar]

None of this make sense to begin with, making a linkshell is hard nowdays because low population and most players on go online but afk/bazzaring or doing their own thing
ffxi is just made for hardcore players now, and the casuals are abandoned because they don't have stuff to get done. thats why i quit ffxi because it have become a sad offline mmorpg with npcs

The game is more casual then it's ever been, your own post even calls it "a sad offline mmorpg with npcs." That's not hardcore at all. Anyone can jump back into the game and get caught up within a fairly minimal amount of time at this point. "None of this makes sense" indeed.

[Meyi]

No thanks to server merges.

[InpendingDeath]

Well, With the newest Freshly picked post it looks like they have no plans to merge until at least after November. With their live announcement I have seen server population dwindle even further and I'm not sure if I am alone on this but I don't really believe there going to see much of an increase in population with this years final updates. Unless it's JP primetime and on the weekend it's very rare to see more than 400 people on now, hovering just below 400 most afternoons I check. I still believe Cerberus could really benefit from a merge still and hearing stories from other servers there is a couple in the same boat. Hopefully they'll realize this and reconsider, Not sure how many can hold out until November in hopes of a merge that isn't even confirmed to take place.

[Sirious]

It's 100% time for regional servers. Not ALL servers. 1 English ONLY server. If you don't play during english prime time, then don't transfer there. If your vagina bleeds to play with JP then don't transfer there.

This sub 400 online thing per server is a bit too low. I get that it's a JP game and the JP pop is still around 1000 but you could EASILY put most if not all NA players on one happy little server.

[Zarchery]

Everyone talks about Asura but I threw a mule on there for a week and every check didn't show much more people than Carbuncle.

[Sapphire]

Everyone talks about Asura but I threw a mule on there for a week and every check didn't show much more people than Carbuncle.

My understanding is that Asura is the land of DRAMA and some long standing communities. And DRAMA!

Odin appears to be the most populated server. (Which seems to result in Odinites calling for merges... except their server lol.)