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

[Antanias]

Time to wrangle up my friends/ls mates and discuss what we're gonna do.

[charlemagne]

Just leave the top 10 servers as they are and allow other people to merge into us.

[Finalfreak]

This is like the worst idea SE ever had -.-
How hard is it to just merge 1 highly populated server with 1 very small populated one?
If you don't like the choise, give people the possibility to switch server.

I'm in 3 very active linkshells right now. If one linkshell prefers an other server for some reason, that means I'll lose that linkshell? Just because SE is too stupid to set up some non-ridiculous merges?

I always loved this game. From the day I started till yesterday. But this idea breaks the total game. People who have some good friends in multiple linkshells, will probably lose a ton of them.
MMOs are all about friendships and playing together. It seems like SE totally forgot that factor when taking this decision.

[razz]

[Translated with Google]: So here my two cents and I must say I am angry and disappointed with the concept.

Before Quick question : Does the "European" world-10 will run on a server somewhere in Europe? So practically it should solve the lag / delay problem for Europeans? Or is this world on a server in Japan like the others?

Servermerge is urgently needed. At Trabia there are like 200 - 700 players online simultaneously, with at least 100 in Uldah standing around and idling. The distribution of countries can be imagined as follows: 70% Japanese / Asians and 30% of the rest of the world.

But what SE gives us as Servermerge is simply not acceptable! If you don't have an active char in March, you'll be separated from your friends. Whether there are friends out of the game, from linkshell or private friends. Who is going to reactivate his account in May / June will not be able to play with his friends! In other words, SE demands 10€ for activating our char now, so we can chose a server...

And it seems like there is no problem for SE that some players must/may change their Charnames at Servermerge. Why is this option denied to players who have been long and active here?
-> If you want to change your Charname, simply disable this char now. Creat a new one with same name on another server and wait until 30th March. Then reactivate the old char and you will be prompted to change his name. For this method you can't play about 30 days with this Char => so name change will cost € 10!

If Linkshell1 decides to go to world1 and Linkshell2 go to world2, I have to chose where to go. Do I (or a few friends) have no active Char, we end up somewhere. Just not together!


-> tl, dr:
- Server merge has to come, but in no case as described by SE.
- Inactive Players can not simply be packed somewhere.
- Changing the Charnamens should be possible for all.

They should move the Servermerge by 2 weeks back and use the time to create a different concept. I've never played FFXI, but world1 (many players) + world.2 (a few players) = New World would the easiest.

[Reinheart]

check out how many people don't like it on the JP side http://goo.gl/ntScD all the likes you see in there on single posts with 50-60... those are mostly posts that's against this decision SE made.

Should also note lots of first time posters in there and it's not from their 2nd character or anything since their class levels of those new first time posters are all Lv50... show how much impact that decision SE made got to them to finally post something in here.

[Kinseykinz]

check out how many people don't like it on the JP side http://goo.gl/ntScD all the likes you see in there on single posts with 50-60... those are mostly posts that's against this decision SE made.

Should also note lots of first time posters in there and it's not from their 2nd character or anything since their class levels of those new first time posters are all Lv50... show how much impact that decision SE made got to them to finally post something in here.

Wow...I don't read a word of Japanese, but if all the +50 likes are actually 'we hate this SE!' damn....
give a polite culture a 'like button' and see how quickly the join up to use it against you

[SynysterBlitz]

THIS IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE...... Period.. whoever thought this was a great idea, needs a rude awakening.. 3 main linkshells I play with all have great members and friends.. now we all have to communicate and hopefully come to an understanding of which server we will all migrate to.... they need to get rid of this stupid idea and just force lower populated servers into more populated ones... problem ****ing solved.......

Edit: Rein could you translate some of those posts for us?? the one had over 90 likes etc, maybe translate the ones with +50 likes lol..

[Delsus]

check out how many people don't like it on the JP side http://goo.gl/ntScD all the likes you see in there on single posts with 50-60... those are mostly posts that's against this decision SE made.

Should also note lots of first time posters in there and it's not from their 2nd character or anything since their class levels of those new first time posters are all Lv50... show how much impact that decision SE made got to them to finally post something in here.

Wow, wish I could read exactly what they are saying, really need to work on learning Japanese, any translations from you coming?

[Bayohne]

Hey everyone,

I appreciate all the comments, questions and discussions taking place regarding the recent World Merge announcement but I would like to ask you all to try and keep discussions within as few threads as possible. This will ensure that the discussions are focused and help us to find and collect the points of discussion and accurately report them.

I appreciate everyone's assistance in this!

[KumaAkuma]

Well can't you close the other threads then and tell them to come here? Isn't this the main thread?