Dev response to Server Merge please.

[InpendingDeath]

New update today added new content and the end of seekers storyline. Still not even 400 people online (Considering half a AFK/mules not even 200 active players). Need server merge bad still. SE you respond to many useless threads why not this one?

[Rainehx]

Amazes me people still don't get it.

Every company needs room to expand, what about if/when they bring out a new expansion? or raise the cap to ilv149?
Where would you expect SE to put all the returners? Some content can be over subscribed already, so what about when people
reactivate? A new server because the current ones are full? That wouldn't keep any returners to the game.

Any company without capacity to move forward is a company moving backwards, sure that sucks for us because less people to play
with but that's the price we pay for updates and possible future expansion packs, the day they stop trying to bring people back to the game is the day
they give up on ffxi so lets not wish that to soon.

And hey lets remember its not as if the only content is 64 person dynamis any more, with most new things being scalable and trusts
it would seem that a compromise is trying to be made, if only people could see it rather than adopting the attitude of "Do what I want
because I pay a sub" and ignoring the bigger picture.

[Demonjustin]

That's a flawed argument. By not merging they're making people leave because there are less people to do content, that lack of people to do content leaves people sitting around doing nothing, those people eventually quit the game. If your goal is to bring people back then you're only making the list of people who need brought back longer whilst losing more people due to failing to make adjustments demanded by the current setup. It's like if I said I'm saving my money so that in the future I can pay my bills, but by doing so I'm not paying the bills I have now. Sure, I'm making arrangements for the future and that sounds smart and all, but I'm being a complete moron by not paying the current bills which will only compound with my later issues and create one much more difficult to solve.

[InpendingDeath]

Amazes me people still don't get it.

Every company needs room to expand, what about if/when they bring out a new expansion? or raise the cap to ilv149?
Where would you expect SE to put all the returners? Some content can be over subscribed already, so what about when people
reactivate? A new server because the current ones are full? That wouldn't keep any returners to the game.

Any company without capacity to move forward is a company moving backwards, sure that sucks for us because less people to play
with but that's the price we pay for updates and possible future expansion packs, the day they stop trying to bring people back to the game is the day
they give up on ffxi so lets not wish that to soon.

And hey lets remember its not as if the only content is 64 person dynamis any more, with most new things being scalable and trusts
it would seem that a compromise is trying to be made, if only people could see it rather than adopting the attitude of "Do what I want
because I pay a sub" and ignoring the bigger picture.

Pretty sure they could do 3:1 merges and still have plenty of room for new people, if not make new server give people the option to transfer to it for free it'll work out.

[InpendingDeath]

That's a flawed argument. By not merging they're making people leave because there are less people to do content, that lack of people to do content leaves people sitting around doing nothing, those people eventually quit the game. If your goal is to bring people back then you're only making the list of people who need brought back longer whilst losing more people due to failing to make adjustments demanded by the current setup. It's like if I said I'm saving my money so that in the future I can pay my bills, but by doing so I'm not paying the bills I have now. Sure, I'm making arrangements for the future and that sounds smart and all, but I'm being a complete moron by not paying the current bills which will only compound with my later issues and create one much more difficult to solve.

Yes, I agree. I know tons of people in the short time I've played to quit the game due to server population being so low. Also the fact there has been 15+ topics on server merge and not one response are they just ignoring the issue? Ignore problem=problem solved?

[Zumi]

During NA time there is 400-500 people on that includes a lot of asleep JP players farming.

[InpendingDeath]

During NA time there is 400-500 people on that includes a lot of asleep JP players farming.

Not to mention the 200+ people away/bazaar and just peoples 2nd char doing duo things some days under 100 active players I can bet on it.

[Rainehx]

There are roughly 600 active users at most times on Phoenix, so lets assume each one has at least 1 mule and or alt.
Add a few hundred at least who are inactive atm that's 1500 chars on the server maybe not all active at once but unless
you wish to see "Server is full please try again" those numbers have to be considered as normal players.

So lets merge that server with another server and that's nearly 3k chars on it. Maybe there not all active but that server is
now at capacity, so what as in my previous post would they do with returners?

Exactly the same has happened every time they have merged servers in the past, SE basicly gives up on the game stops trying
to recruit and stops making content, look it up in pol news im not lying, why are you wishing this to happen?

Would you really rather 5 more people to run past in each zone over them continuing to make content for the game? I wouldn't.

An im not surprised SE continue to no comment, clearly people cant see anything more than what's in front of them.

[InpendingDeath]

There are roughly 600 active users at most times on Phoenix, so lets assume each one has at least 1 mule and or alt.
Add a few hundred at least who are inactive atm that's 1500 chars on the server maybe not all active at once but unless
you wish to see "Server is full please try again" those numbers have to be considered as normal players.

So lets merge that server with another server and that's nearly 3k chars on it. Maybe there not all active but that server is
now at capacity, so what as in my previous post would they do with returners?

Exactly the same has happened every time they have merged servers in the past, SE basicly gives up on the game stops trying
to recruit and stops making content, look it up in pol news im not lying, why are you wishing this to happen?

Would you really rather 5 more people to run past in each zone over them continuing to make content for the game? I wouldn't.

An im not surprised SE continue to no comment, clearly people cant see anything more than what's in front of them.

I would love to see "Server is full please try again" but we all know that's never going to happen in this day and age of this games life. Lets talk in the realm of possibility.

[Pixela]

I would love to see "Server is full please try again" but we all know that's never going to happen in this day and age of this games life. Lets talk in the realm of possibility.

What you want isn't what everyone else wants, I pay to play this game so I can do things. Not so I can see server full or not be able to get into what I want to do due to overcrowding. You are new, many of us have played for a long long time and have seen the server with 4-5k people online, sorry it was crap and more people quit after server merges than from anything else. Go to do limbus, can't get in because their are only 4 instances, they are all full and there are 5 parties waiting outside. Can't get sky pops because it's full of people, can't farm dynamis because it's packed, can't do anything so go level some job you aren't really interested in.

Transfer to Asura and stop complaining, you aren't filling your shout groups because nobody needs what you're shouting for.