Not a merge, but open migration

[Anjou]

One thing that would more than likely help...

Getting rid of that 90 day wait after a previous world transfer has been conducted.

Ever think that'd help?

[nyheen]

so in other words you want to make it jp eu or na server only? that would be a bad idea because we already hurting in server population, so cutting it down to jp or na would make it worst, not everyone from na,jp etc dont always play at the same time. i work around 4:00PM-1AM so if iam in a all NA server most likely it will be a dead ghost town with even less people to play with. it best to keep it mix and rarely do i ever see jp, na only stuff.
and ya merging all of the remaining servers if it possible would be a great fun idea

[Trisscar]

Agreed. I work thirteen hour shifts so a merge into Japanese or North American only servers would only hurt me as well. And what about European or Australian players? They would be simply out of luck.

[Demon6324236]

I'm against it. On the other hand, if you were to say free server changes for everyone so that if we want to we can move over to another server in order to try finding more people to play with, without the 25 dollar fee or whatever, that I would be perfectly fine with.

[Karah]

On the other hand, if you were to say free server changes for everyone so that if we want to we can move over to another server in order to try finding more people to play with, without the 25 dollar fee or whatever, that I would be perfectly fine with.

That's what I'm talking about, just removal of the fee, and maybe *one* english only server and *one* japanese only server.

You can't with a straight face tell me you aren't sick of the "jp only" mentality.

I guess people only matter when they agree with you?

Not even close, most of the people I play with DON'T matter. You only matter if you have "this" and "that". If you're a noob with 1 99 and no E/M/R I couldn't possibly care less what your opinion is, and you "don't matter". Like this guy http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Asura/Slaxx (presumably).

[Hexadecimal]

You can't with a straight face tell me you aren't sick of the "jp only" mentality.

I can indeed tell you that I'm not sick of it, because in 10 years playing this game, I think I've encountered it once or twice. Some of my longest standing friendships in this game are with Japanese players. I won't presume to tell you what players are thinking when they elect to not play with players from other language groups in the game, but I will tell you, the problem might not be with them.

[Demon6324236]

Oh so for your opinion to matter you must have certain things, got ya, and still disagree with that mentality.

So far as having any English or JP only servers, no, I am annoyed by people who are like that, but I am sure they are equally annoyed by the fact they are forcibly surrounded by English players. Since I think they are shitty human beings who do not deserve the comfort of their own server, they should stay around me, their shitty attitude doesn't really effect me unless they enforce it, which most cant even if they want to, but I am sure that just by being there, I annoy them, and that gives me a sense of happiness, knowing that just because I'm there, I am ruining an assholes day somewhere, somehow.

[FrankReynolds]

I don't really see how this would hurt anyone. If it were voluntary, people who don't play during xyz time would just not move to a server where everyone plays during xyz time.

[Anjou]

Because Triss, merging literally every single server together creates an overcrowd (Shocking but true) people will be complaining that their nm's are being overcamped, people will rage quit because no can get anything done due to this congestion. If you say maybe merge them into 3-4 servers then that I can see, but you'll still have people butthurt over 'omg I've been on this server forevers, I can't stomach the thought of moving' so how are you going to survive when XI is gone completely? Be thankful we can still play this game.

Personally I'm against the idea of a huge server movement, too many people would stay rooted on their home turf and the people who do move go into ghost towns, and eventually quit.

[svengalis]

linkshells are at fault to. i found this out greatly when i played wow. some people only play with their linkshells and noone else. you guys are separating yourselves from the rest of the community so the players are at fault to.