Dev response to Server Merge please.

[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.

[InpendingDeath]

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.

I did say they should address the instance problem before hand. It's a MMO if you can't handle the competition try WoW or offline game. Maybe they won't merge your server because there are plenty of people but from the server merge posts popping up every week there is obviously some that need it.

[Pixela]

I did say they should address the instance problem before hand. It's a MMO if you can't handle the competition try WoW or offline game. Maybe they won't merge your server because there are plenty of people but from the server merge posts popping up every week there is obviously some that need it.

I've been around long enough to see that what players ask for isn't really what they want, it's just what they think they want.

Here's how it goes:
"Give merge, nobody joins my crappy shouts!"
"Omg Square I'm going to lose my name, this sucks!"
"Please add more instances I can't do any content anymore!"
"omg it's so laggy"
Then they realise that a merge does not fix their issue because, again nobody wants the crap they are shouting for so now they have the negatives of an overpopulated server & the original issue.

At the end of the day, you can complain about it as much as you want (although I'm not sure I buy you actually care about FFXI at all given your name and post history) but it's pretty obvious what side of the fence Square is on since they ignore all these threads.

[InpendingDeath]

I've been around long enough to see that what players ask for isn't really what they want, it's just what they think they want.

Here's how it goes:
"Give merge, nobody joins my crappy shouts!"
"Omg Square I'm going to lose my name, this sucks!"
"Please add more instances I can't do any content anymore!"
"omg it's so laggy"
Then they realise that a merge does not fix their issue because, again nobody wants the crap they are shouting for so now they have the negatives of an overpopulated server & the original issue.

At the end of the day, you can complain about it as much as you want (although I'm not sure I buy you actually care about FFXI at all given your name and post history) but it's pretty obvious what side of the fence Square is on since they ignore all these threads.

Didn't say no one joined my "crappy shouts" just only during prime time really, which I can't always play during. Don't see how new content is considered crappy shouts anyway. My name? I don't care about this game because my name? Your IQ must not be very high lol that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. Don't know if your trolling or being serious but please say trolling. . . Sorry I'm trying to make a post for Dev response to something many many other people would like the answer to as well. Quitting a game over name loss is pretty childish and we could do without them. Adding more instances is common sense. It's 2014 there isn't any server side lag unless they use AoL.

[Zumi]

I've been around long enough to see that what players ask for isn't really what they want, it's just what they think they want.

Here's how it goes:
"Give merge, nobody joins my crappy shouts!"
"Omg Square I'm going to lose my name, this sucks!"
"Please add more instances I can't do any content anymore!"
"omg it's so laggy"
Then they realise that a merge does not fix their issue because, again nobody wants the crap they are shouting for so now they have the negatives of an overpopulated server & the original issue.

At the end of the day, you can complain about it as much as you want (although I'm not sure I buy you actually care about FFXI at all given your name and post history) but it's pretty obvious what side of the fence Square is on since they ignore all these threads.

Only thing is the servers are running at about 25% of the population they once were. Back in the day about 2000-3000 people would be on. Now a days its 500-800 people. That is a lot less people to do stuff with thus people want a merge.