Korean Server Merges

[Zigabar]

Hi I am a user who is playing on Final Fantasy X Korea server. I am not accustomed to Japanese and English, so I have translated this eagle using Google Translate.

This is an article about the ongoing work on Korean servers recently.

On the day of 2017.01.2010, the Korean server management team made a "one-sided" notification that the existing 6 servers would be integrated into 3 servers because the number of users is uneven. This is not the sole decision of Identity Mobile, the Korean server operator, but the entire operation of Global Server and Final Fantasy It is accomplished under the approval of Yoshida Podi managing.

Currently, Korean servers have 8 zones each, including an expansion zone for each server. Therefore, it is impossible to consolidate all the users' housings, "Forcibly demolish" the housing of the server's 5-8 zone and compensate for the extra way to the gil at the time of purchase of the housing Announced today.

Without notifying the user of the problem in advance, we will proceed with integration on the next three weeks And that they will not listen to users.

Also, these housings, which are now forcibly dismissed, are aimed at eliminating the existing imbalance of users Long-term users who have been already forced to move to another server's 5-8 zone while doing server consolidation If it is a housing and the low-level (gil) spreads on the server in a moment, I think all users will know.

On October 24, 2016, Yoshida Pedi was asked at the North American Pen Festival.

"Q. If you have a small population of players in the future, are you thinking about server consolidation?"

At this time, Yoshida

A. In Patch 3.5, a party recruitment beyond the world will be implemented. This allows you to enjoy chatting or specific content, even if your world is different. FFXIV is getting closer to Worldless. If it seems to affect the party organization until now, I will review the integration of the world positively. However, it is a last resort because it is desirable to keep the housing and the free company. I answered.

In addition, Yoshida Pedia has mentioned this in column # 3 of the previous Feminist Yoshifumi p.

"Your character data or property in the game is not just the data formed by 0s and 1s Because memories and time and colleagues are short-lived,

Yoshida pd, who had been doing such a thing, I do not think it would have been easy enough. I would like to believe that there was a lot of negotiation process and it was the conclusion that really came out as the best choice.

But we can not hear any detailed explanation, explanation, memories with many people, I am in crisis to forcefully demolish the housing.

I do not desire much. I really do not know if this was the best choice I want to know if a reasonable decision has been made and why I have done so with only one-sided notification.

I want to know.

You might think that this is just another server's thing But think again about what this is about to happen to you now Please be interested in the current situation of Korean servers.

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._is_beginning/
Citation:
http://www.ff14.co.kr/news/notice/detail.asp?id=86866

Food for thought.

[Moonlite]

This is why in the rest of the world they are hoping cross server PF saves low population servers. Implementing housing the way they have is horrible and detrimental to players for this exact reason.

[Zigabar]

This is why in the rest of the world they are hoping cross server PF saves low population servers. Implementing housing the way they have is horrible and detrimental to players for this exact reason.

Let's hope Cross-Server Party Finder meets the Dev's goals, then. This is happening in kFFXIV, so it can certainly happen here and many small server players will suffer.

[Vexander]

Well, if servers consolidate, hopefully SE will use the extra resources to increase Housing Limits, though I know that's not the only concern when it comes to merging servers.

[Dustytome]

I'd be interested to know how they plan to compensate for housing cash shop items that can't be retrieved when the house has been demolished. Hopefully they refund the money or at least send the users another item to make up for it.

[JunseiKei]

Food for thought.

The Korean and Chinese servers are not run by SE. NEXON for Korea and Shanda Games for China. SE directly manages and maintains the JP, EU and NA servers.

What I'm implying is what happens to those servers probably has no bearing on ours.

[Zigabar]

The Korean and Chinese servers are not run by SE. NEXON for Korea and Shanda Games for China. SE directly manages and maintains the JP, EU and NA servers.

What I'm implying is what happens to those servers probably has no bearing on ours.

Yet, their solution was developed by our dev team, meaning it is not entirely out of the realm of possibilities. But hey, if you don't want to worry about it, or feel bad for those playing on the Korean server, then don't.

[JunseiKei]

Yet, their solution was developed by our dev team, meaning it is not entirely out of the realm of possibilities. But hey, if you don't want to worry about it, or feel bad for those playing on the Korean server, then don't.

With the ultimate decision made by NEXON, the publishers [AKA the company providing funding and resourcing for the servers in that region] in Korea. The suggestion may have come from SE, but ultimately, it's on NEXON for that decision.

Evidently, whoever is in charge of the KR version feels that they cannot wait until a future patch to try to resolve server population issues and this proposed solution must be done now and not later. You have to remember that the KR version (and the CH one) are basically owned by a different publisher, and they probably have a good say over what they do with their versions as per contract agreements.

Excuse you for assuming I don't feel bad for the Korean players while stating facts.

[NolLacnala]

And no one was surprised because >>>NEXON

[Moonlite]

The Korean and Chinese servers are not run by SE. NEXON for Korea and Shanda Games for China. SE directly manages and maintains the JP, EU and NA servers.

What I'm implying is what happens to those servers probably has no bearing on ours.

What does who run the servers have to do with poor game design? If you have been around long enough hell since 1.0 all we hear is not enough resources or wasn't design to be fixed that way. It is pretty obvious that if SE had to merge servers right now they would probably have to destroy houses. That would look bad for them so if any server has a negative cost they suck it up, Nexon doesn't have the same publicity to worry about.

With that said about current game design. In early 3.0 it was discussed about adding ishgard housing and allowing transfers. Since I doubt it takes TWO years to design a housing district. They probably have not gotten transfer system worked out, which may or may not allow them future server changes.