Server merge inevitable?

[Damane]

Yeah, at this point we almost need 3-world merges. If they wait another month or two, they might need 4-world merges or (if the November update is good) only 2 world merges. <_<

At the moment I think they're probably playing it right by waiting.

waiting for now is definitly the right answer at least until the november update. However if there has to be a mass-server-merge thing to happen I would like them to designated different servers to specific Areas. Like designate an EU, a NA server, so those people that play in the same timezone/same dayhours/durign same time play together (hence avoiding a "death" time during EU-Primetime as it currently is on almost any server)

[Damane]

atm I am torn between playing a game with a total ass-community (XIV) and a game that has an almost dead community (XI). My last straw is the november update with the hardmode and REM content. I cant stant the XIV community, because people act there like pricks and not like humans, but I also cant play XI because there is noone to play with almost ._.. In the end it might end up with playing none of the two :/

[lllen]

Yesterday afternoon about 250 people on Cerberus, which was the same amount several hours after the last update. There is nothing to do, I'm taking my gear and killing things for the hell of it..."Pay Back Time" for killing me so many times in the old days type mobs.

The last merge I was on Hades and thought how horrible only 1200 on...oh to have 1200 again.

[Keeley]

SE needs to merge the servers. We currently have 17. If they would just get rid of 9 of them, and send those people to the remaining 8, I think we would have another year or two where there are plenty of people to play with. I think FF14 is here to stay and if anything, it will drain more people from 11 to 14.

[Anjou]

SE needs to merge the servers. We currently have 17. If they would just get rid of 9 of them, and send those people to the remaining 8, I think we would have another year or two where there are plenty of people to play with. I think FF14 is here to stay and if anything, it will drain more people from 11 to 14.

I can agree with that, at least it'll give people some new playmate. Besides, the Japanese players keep us rather populated during their prime time, we just need to get EU players stabilized so they have some play time.

[Anjou]

The only thing I'm worried about, is what'll happen with the players who lose their original server to the merge, I wonder how they'll act...

[detlef]

The worst part is if you merge servers at this point, you're essentially merging 4 servers worth of character names.

[Karah]

Here's the sad honest truth.

2000 people logged in for the "bcnmdropmadness weekend" this was literally the justification SE needed to say "no damn merges stop asking".

As long as you "quitters" keep logging in for lolloginrewards and stupid point driven gimmicks, there will be no merges, period.

It's cold and simple fact. It LOOKS like people are playing, whether they are or not.

Stop logging your mules in for log in points. (I'm guilty too I log in 10 accounts every day.) Until (we) all stop, there is no point complaining. It's your faults for falling for these tricks that keep merges from being discussed.

[Bearstar]

14 is pulling alot of player's attention but I don't see 11 ending anytime soon.

[predatory]

FFXI has a lot of life left in it provided SE stops the constant meddling at the top without reworking the bottom. They absolutely do need to finish SoA, but at the same time they need to breathe in some new life to some of that older content they've been sweeping under the rug since the advent of Abyssea, things that anyone who has been around this game for quite awhile used to do every chance we could. Sea, Sky, Dynamis, Campaign, Besieged to name a few, these could all have SoA strengths added to the mobs. Once they fix that horrible mistake they made of outdating all the gear in one fell swoop I hope they do bring this stuff back as quickly as possible, because let's face it, this constant 6-18 man instanced stuff is kind of lame, we should have big groups on grand adventures again.