Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
It absolutely would affect them. i'm not speaking about populations, I'm speaking about division of development resources). The fact is they cannot conjure a server out of thin air. Some number of people would have to commit some amount of time to make this happen. It's not something that can be done by just snapping fingers. THere are logistical issues, web issues (setting up the site for world transfers, etc), and hardware issues (installing new server hardware).

This isn't a guaranteed profit proposition. It will cost them money to set up- if not enough people resubscribe because of it, or buy new character slots because of it, etc, it will not outweigh the setup and development costs. SE would certainly need to do a cost-benefit analysis before doing something like this.

Well, I'm happy we have an understanding here. That's really my main concern. If they devs indicate they can overcome that, then I'm all for it. I won't participate in it, but I don't want to rain all over another person's enjoyment.
Well, still the amount of impact on the current FFXI would be hard to know, as i said the development of a new server would indeed take time to setup and such but as far as the actual progression of said server unlike the current there will be a point the content will hit a stand still as thats where the limit to what players on a casual server want. (unless SE tosses in more side things akin to meeble BCNMS etc) sadly nobody can say for sure how much resources SE even has only they can say if its enough or too little so the argument there isnt something to really debate. If SE can do it they will if not they will say so lol