About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012)

[Bayohne]

Greetings all,

Yoshida's most recent post lets players know the current plan for the World Merge.

Hello everyone, Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I’d first like to thank you for all of your posts.
I’ve been looking at the threads across all regions and I’m sorry that this has caused a huge disturbance amongst each of the regions.

Currently, we're seeing a lot of feedback that favors plan ②, and we're considering revisions that use plan ② as a base while retaining the merits of plan ④. The operations and development teams will continue to gather everyone’s feedback while we investigate further. This is also a technical matter and we also need to confirm schedule timing, so I’m sorry to say that we’ll need some additional time and that this will continue through the weekend and into the start of next week.

For the Topics announcement, we considered temporarily taking it down, but we decided against that as we feared that if players were unable to see the information, you wouldn’t be able to discuss it with the same background knowledge. Therefore, we’ll be keeping the current announcement up as we go into next week.

Just to reiterate, there are a lot of players that are voicing their concerns, and we will strive to find an acceptable balance as much as possible before moving forward. Therefore please keep this in mind and try to understand our reasoning.

[JackDaniels]

So then transfer to whatever server the Trabians end up?

Stop whining over a non-issue. Did you even read what Option 2 says? It still allows for transfers.

Well it does change things, what's to say my linkshell will want to go with me if they could just all autotransfer to the same server?

*gives you a hug because you clearly need one lol

Just to reiterate, there are a lot of players that are voicing their concerns, and we will strive to find an acceptable balance as much as possible before moving forward. Therefore please keep this in mind and try to understand our reasoning.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I hope you guys make the right decision.

[Holy_Dragoon]

Thanks for the official on this Bayohne.

[Biggs]

Hello everyone.

I appreciate your patience as we worked to get Yoshida's post translated. Please take a look.

"I was chosen to LEAD, not to READ"

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Just to reiterate, there are a lot of players that are voicing their concerns, and we will strive to find an acceptable balance as much as possible before moving forward. Therefore please keep this in mind and try to understand our reasoning.

I understand that it is technically more difficult to do plan B than plan D, but as a now paying customer I simply do not care. I am not only contributing to the support of the game, but am referring friends and family to play. You need more being brought to the table now to validate payment. You can't hold the same standard of customer service as you did before when it was free.

Since when did a customer get a version of what they asked for that was easier technically on the worker? We're not talking about harsh conditions or the like. We're just talking about how you MAY have to do more planning in work for the more logical option in server merging. Then do it. No one is going to be sympathetic and compromise for a half assed version of it because it's your job to see it through with the quality you and your company promised the player base. Remember? Or did they really mean that we should start paying so that FFXIV can work it's way to the middle?

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

While none of us can stop it now, as long as we can spread the info to derail NEW server rage threads...

I can't lock mine and it's been rendered largely obsolete with the new information. There will be a lot of folks that won't read the Dev Tracker responses and all they'll see on the front page is Hot Coffees relating to server merges.

[BrusselSprout]

While none of us can stop it now, as long as we can spread the info to derail NEW server rage threads...

I can't lock mine and it's been rendered largely obsolete with the new information. There will be a lot of folks that won't read the Dev Tracker responses and all they'll see on the front page is Hot Coffees relating to server merges.

Spam quote Baho! Stop the rage! Save the forums!

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Spam quote Baho! Stop the rage! Save the forums!

The forums can't be saved. They can only be destroyed slower.

[BrusselSprout]

The forums can't be saved. They can only be destroyed slower.

So true...so true.

[Teknoman]

A 2-4 fusion might work out nicely.