Why Do I Have To Compete With Other Players For Notorious Monters?

[Zyeriis]

If it was that easy ff11 wouldn't be in the state its in having to server merge every year due to i dont know....people quitting because they can't get things done.

One could surmise there's another reason they've merging servers? You know, one that saves them the cost of maintaining so many, for such an old game? I won't say that numbers aren't dwindling because they are but certainly not at the rate people seem to think they are. If anything there was a surge of returning new players after the shutdown due to the earthquake (myself included in those returning).

[Greatguardian]

One could surmise there's another reason they've merging servers? You know, one that saves them the cost of maintaining so many, for such an old game? I won't say that numbers aren't dwindling because they are but certainly not at the rate people seem to think they are. If anything there was a surge of returning new players after the shutdown due to the earthquake (myself included in those returning).

This. I'm also a firm believer that they are still utilizing the older servers in order to increase the amount of server space and processing power afforded to each of the remaining servers. What's the point of maintaining an environment with only 1500~ people on it when the servers can hit 6,000? May as well combine and transform.

[Neofire]

This. I'm also a firm believer that they are still utilizing the older servers in order to increase the amount of server space and processing power afforded to each of the remaining servers. What's the point of maintaining an environment with only 1500~ people on it when the servers can hit 6,000? May as well combine and transform.

Then why didn't SE do this 2 years ago? My server(titan)has been in the 1.5K-2K pop since 2009 true merging servers were a reason to get cost down but the biggest reason was due to the declining population i guarantee it.

[Zyeriis]

Then why didn't SE do this 2 years ago? My server(titan)has been in the 1.5K-2K pop since 2009 true merging servers were a reason to get cost down but the biggest reason was due to the declining population i guarantee it.

FFXIV didn't exist then? Anyway, "why now?" seems to be your question. Which I can't personally, factually answer other than its happening now because I'm not SE. They tend to wait extremely long times before doing things, if you look at their track record.

Most loss of players happened when they closed servers like Odin and Bahamut back around 08-09. I remember, as Bahamut was my original server. Bahamut used to have anywhere between 2.3k and 4k+ players at any given time before they closed it. A few months after they closed it, in october of the same year, there was 800 or less people online at any given time. I found it impossible to get things done and abandoned ship as they showed no signs of re-opening bahamut anytime soon. So, I moved to Phoenix. Phoenix in it's currently state, fluxes between 900 and 2k+ players online at any moment and is getting another server merged into it (Titan right?). That sounds like Phoenix is going to end up like what Bahamut was like right before they closed it. 3-4k+ players online at any given time. Thus, one could surmise that they are doing it to cut server costs, to maximize subscription costs, to pay for the failboat that is FFXIV, which didn't exist back then.

[Greatguardian]

Then why didn't SE do this 2 years ago? My server(titan)has been in the 1.5K-2K pop since 2009 true merging servers were a reason to get cost down but the biggest reason was due to the declining population i guarantee it.

Why didn't they force-spawn Kings 5 years ago? Why is the Beetle's foot still backwards? I fail to see your issue with anything I said. Yes, having a low population would allow them to server merge. Heck, it would encourage it. If you can fit 4x the population of a server, you may as well combine two servers and then use the extra server resources to add functionality to the remaining ones.

[Miera]

You, more and more, sound like one such player. It is also irrelevant to your increasingly pathetic "people are better than me at claiming things, get rid of that aspect now!" "argument". You want a single player/multiplayer rpg, not a massively multiplayer rpg. There's a difference, you're playing the wrong genre. I, for one, know what genre I am playing, and am playing that genre because that's what I want. Stop bitching about the genre of the game and go find a game that fits into the genre you want? Seriously, they are out there. White Knight Chronicles, Demon Souls, PSU, etc.

Ewwwie, PSU. I quit that game for FFXI and vowed to never turn back I'm so happy People don't spam shouts in FFXI like they do in PSU .

[Glamdring]

Because if you didn't have to compete for the NMs everyone with the equivalent of a blackbelt want from your mob would be in this thread whining about how it's impossible to get since they can't monopolize the pop.

[Kingofgeeks]

this has been a problem since the beginning of ffxi, i doubt it will ever change