Asura is closed?

[Pixela]

I'm reading that new players can no longer create characters on Asura, is this correct and if so are we going to get an official statement?

[Zehira]

This is true. I took a picture of her screen.

https://i.imgur.com/J3U0uSX.png

[Immortal]

Oh no o.o, cant you delete the banned characters?

[Yvone]

Oh no o.o, cant you delete the banned characters?

Of course they could, but honestly, if they refuse to merge the servers, this is the next best thing that could happen.

[Alhanelem]

The rare like from me.

This also has the side effect of stopping RMT/bots from creating more characters as well. Of course, there's still the ones roaming free from before, but it's a blow to the efficiency of those spark farming alliances.

It's finally come to a head people. Now you HAVE to make a character somewhere else. This is great news IMO, now other servers can get some fresh blood.

[Catmato]

Of course they could, but honestly, if they refuse to merge the servers, this is the next best thing that could happen.

Why would someone who's on Asura want other servers merged? Just want everyone else pissed off out of spite?

[Yvone]

Functionality. There are supposed to be 16 servers with roughly equal player counts. For queues and instances and blahblahblah. Not one giant mega dumpsterfire, 2 wishtheywere dumpsterfires, and 13 parkinglots.

It would just function better. Provided the caveat that they refuse to allow free transfers. That would be the more optimal option. it's wasteful to even leave 8 of the 16 servers open. There are good reasons to want to be on those 8 servers. But that's not the point.

[Jdove]

Makes me wonder if maybe this is one of the reasons for never merging in the 1st place, and if they do now will other servers eventually face this same fate? Honestly it seems irresponsible for them to permaban people and not delete the character slot from the server along with the ban.

[Pixela]

I believe the reason they don't remove the banned persons name is because somnne could take that name and then get lots of abuse, of which they have no idea why.

They will do what they do on FFXIV, they just increase the database cap.

[Alhanelem]

I believe the reason they don't remove the banned persons name is because somnne could take that name and then get lots of abuse, of which they have no idea why.

They will do what they do on FFXIV, they just increase the database cap.
They did that one time by making optimizations. It isn't a permanent fix either. The pandemic has been making it more difficult for them to add servers even though they want to, because it requires in-person visits to the data centers.

[Pixela]

They did that one time by making optimizations. It isn't a permanent fix either. The pandemic has been making it more difficult for them to add servers even though they want to, because it requires in-person visits to the data centers.

New world managed just fine.

[Alhanelem]

New world managed just fine.Did they? I've been hearing about ongoing server stability problems. Also, different MMO,, different needs.

[Pixela]

They have been throwing new servers at it.

[Alhanelem]

They have been throwing new servers at it.
FFXIV is opening an entire new datacenter at the launch of Endwalker, so they probably aren't in any hurry since most of the English players on the JP DC will probably be moving to that.

[Lortheron]

Functionality. There are supposed to be 16 servers with roughly equal player counts. For queues and instances and blahblahblah. Not one giant mega dumpsterfire, 2 wishtheywere dumpsterfires, and 13 parkinglots.

It would just function better. Provided the caveat that they refuse to allow free transfers. That would be the more optimal option. it's wasteful to even leave 8 of the 16 servers open. There are good reasons to want to be on those 8 servers. But that's not the point.

This. 100 times this.