PLease SERVER MERGE

[Alhanelem]

No thanks to the server merge. I don't want to lose my character's name. :/ It means a lot to me.

While I don't care about the server merge idea and I dont mean to offend, I somewhat doubt your name would be taken on another server.

[Meyi]

http://www.ffxiah.com/search/player?...Meyi&sid=0#adv

You don't think so, eh?

[Alhanelem]

never thought to check. Wow lol. Well you'd just have to hope that they merge to your server instead :P

Is there some significance to it that I'm not aware of?

[Corvi]

The game has gotten to the point, where people can shout for 3hrs during prime time, and still can't get a 4 man Unity (Arke) event going. Why even play the game? 500 people on server (Sylph), more than half are afk/bazzar, the other half duo boxing. If people like to play solo, go play other RPG. This is a MMO, and it just isn't that anymore. SE did you actually tried to log on at prime time and see if people able to play your game?

SE if you still want people to play (and pay) FFXI, merge server. Been talking about this for months. Do you even care?? If you don't, why should we care about your XXXXX campaign. Hypocrisy.

[Ulth]

People don't respond to your shouts because they would rather do stuff with their linkshell instead. From my experience pick up groups never pan out well. Recently a member in my ls was trying to do Vedrfolnir. She joined some pick up group for it, and spent hours while they shouted, and once it finally got started, they were so bad they timed out. Once she complained about how these people were wasting her time and accolades, we decided to give her a hand and beat that bird 6 times in less time it took them to fail once. So no, people not joining your shout is not a reason for a server merge. You just need to find a good ls on your server to do stuff with.

[Corvi]

People don't respond to your shouts because they would rather do stuff with their linkshell instead. From my experience pick up groups never pan out well.

There are all kinds of reason why xxxxx could not get a group together to do an easy NM. (NM too hard, pug too weak, language barrier, not the right jobs, not the right gear, not xxxx, etc, etc) And there are all kinds of way to find people to do so. LS, pug, friendlist, people that you helped, phone people to get online, trio box the easy NM like Arke.

It isn't about "how do you find people to do something". It is about "server has gotten so small that ways that were possible to start event before is no longer possible."

You could say, then just only do events with LS. Or phone people to get online. And that where FFXI fails. You cannot do the simplest things without prior booking with known people. This game is old enough not to have a raid finder, or cross server instant. Instead of lessen these old age issues by make it easier to find people to play with, SE would euthanize its weakness by making it extremely hard to find other players.

And regarding Vedrfolnir. That is because people that should not be hosting is doing so. Due to the exact same problem. There are so few capable hoster around that the wrong people are force to do so.

[Ulth]

At the risk of sounding redundant, server size is not the problem with shouting. The problem with shouting is you get poorly geared people who don't know what they are doing. You know what is a problem with server size? Dynamis always being full, and good capacity point camps being taken. Pretty sure my server isn't supposed to be all that populated either. I don't know how I would deal with being on a crowded one like Asura or Bahamut.

Ugh I feel like I keep repeating myself over and over, but it never matters. Some people, like me, enjoy our quaint quiet intimate small server. A server merge would force us out of what we like. That's why we are against it. There are servers with a high population already. If that is what you want, move to them, and stop trying to force everyone into how you think the game should be played.

[Meyi]

They could have a free trial of server jumping where for one week people can move to whatever server they want. That way, if you want a more robust server you can move to one with a higher population.

[Kawar]

Yes I think a server merge would fix a lot of problems but you need to look at it like this. It may make more problems then this game needs at the time. Look at the shape of this game we are just barley keeping it alive lets not make it harder.

[zataz]

if u want a server with more people(i know not everyone does and that's fine) come to odin and be done with it we would love to have u and welcome u all with open arms if anyone says otherwise and they dont like it they can go to a smaller server =P