A request to the Devs regarding the current situation and the world merge

[Pandali]

Hello. I've played FFXI on and off over the past...6 years or so. I just recently joined the community once again about half a week before the disaster. The reason for my return is to play with my brother, which I haven't been able to do, as Gold World Passes were temporarily removed from the Shiva server in anticipation for the world merge with Alexander. However, due to the earthquake, not only is FFXI's service temporary suspended (which I have no problem with), but the world merger is also delayed indefinitely. So I'd like to make an honest request, which may sound selfish yet comes with the possibility that others are also suffering from my situation. Can you allow the purchasing of Gold World Passes for a certain amount of time after FFXI service is restored? I ask this because the world merge appears to have been delayed considerably and I cannot play until I am able to enter Shiva, which is the world my brother is in. If this is not possible, I completely understand but I'd be very joyed if it were.

[annewandering]

It cant happen because of the abuse done during the last merger. I might be wrong but dont count on it.
I do have a suggestion though. You could both make a new character on an unaffected world just to be able to play together and have fun. When the merged worlds get settled then you could delete or transfer to your friends world.
Its not a perfect answer but at least you could have fun while you wait.

[Pandali]

You are referring to the 2010 merge right? What kind of abuse occurred? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing happening.

[Arconis]

It cant happen because of the abuse done during the last merger. I might be wrong but dont count on it.
I do have a suggestion though. You could both make a new character on an unaffected world just to be able to play together and have fun. When the merged worlds get settled then you could delete or transfer to your friends world.
Its not a perfect answer but at least you could have fun while you wait.

This is 100% accurate because they have already announced what worlds to where they won't unlock affected servers until after the merge

[annewandering]

Oh there was all kinds of malicious name stealing both of characters and LS's. SE doesnt want that to happen again.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Oh there was all kinds of malicious name stealing both of characters and LS's. SE doesnt want that to happen again.You should just be on Siren instead, we devour all other servers.

[Pandali]

It cant happen because of the abuse done during the last merger. I might be wrong but dont count on it.
I do have a suggestion though. You could both make a new character on an unaffected world just to be able to play together and have fun. When the merged worlds get settled then you could delete or transfer to your friends world.
Its not a perfect answer but at least you could have fun while you wait.

Unfortunately, those options aren't viable in my case, as I have thought about these suggestions already. Thank you though. If I can't have it my way, then I have no choice but to wait it out. I think I'm tough enough to sit patiently, especially given the circumstance.

EDIT: After all, a free month of April is more than enough to appease the penny pincher in me. This is assuming the world merge happens timely.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Perhaps you could get some vairety of reissuing after the fact.

[Pandali]

Oh there was all kinds of malicious name stealing both of characters and LS's. SE doesnt want that to happen again.

Gah it's the petty things that ruin the days of good people.

[Arconis]

Ya it sucks just really bad timing if they hadn't announced the affected servers they would have already unlocked them and wouldn't have been a problem

[Pandali]

Ya it sucks just really bad timing if they hadn't announced the affected servers they would have already unlocked them and wouldn't have been a problem

Bad timing? Story of my life. Start FFXI and suddenly an earthquake. Should've seen it coming.

[Anela]

Bad timing? Story of my life. Start FFXI and suddenly an earthquake. Should've seen it coming.

Finaggle's 1st corolary to Murphy's 1st law: "Murphy was an optimist"...

[Nacht]

To be honest, there's not much reason why the 'source' worlds should be locked. It's preventing this guy + the guy in the other thread from creating characters. People were abusing the character creation on the 'destination' worlds only. Those should still stay locked. However, the 'source' worlds should be unlocked, due to the version update postponement.

[Pandali]

Finaggle's 1st corolary to Murphy's 1st law: "Murphy was an optimist"...

Hehe. Very true. I'm shutting down for tonight. Thank you everyone here for keeping me hopeful...I guess.

[deathsong]

Bad timing? Story of my life. Start FFXI and suddenly an earthquake. Should've seen it coming.

My husband and I were in the same boat coming back to the game about a week before the disaster. I was around for the world merge last year and needless to say it wasn't pretty. I am glad that I don't have to deal with that this time because I don't want to have to change my name AGAIN lol.

[Xylia]

I'd love a Dev's confirmation on this. Even if it's just removing the 90 day limit on paid transfers so I can pay. My friend who activated at the start of March now can't play indefinitely and there's no way she's going to wait around until May or beyond for me. I have a linkshell on my server (which I have been on since before the US launch) so I'm not keen on moving to her on one of the unaffected servers. If it's done via paid transfer rules being relaxed, there isn't going to be much deliberate mischief since the cost is quite high.

Unblocking the source servers would be a compromise. Not a great compromise, but at least then she could get started and I could help until we can move to my usual server.

[Ryoushin]

Heres a question ive been wondering.. Back in I think it was 2009 when that world merger hit one day im on SERAPH the next day my characters are on BISMARCK .. though not complaining, but do we have a choice on which remaining world we want our characters to go to or is that made for us no matter the outcome?