A history in server merging - Why SE is creating an overcomplicated mess.

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Originally Posted by Colino

Yes it's their fault that sometimes life catches up with you and you don't have the time to play online games despite having the will to pick them up again in the future.

Get a grip dude.

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I dont personally care if they left for rift or because FFXIV doesnt offer enough. Hell I was glad to see many go. Spit happens and i am sorry to people who absolutely cannot play and -want- to but its the way the cookie crumbles. I can however say that I don't give a rats behind on the current situation pertaining to those not paying.

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Originally Posted by Buddhsie

So everyone who's not playing now is forcibly thrown into a situation where they can't spend $10 a month? What I saw was a bunch of whiny d-bags who quit when payment was required, those people can get tossed into a reject server and all come back and be little whingers together when 2.0 comes out.

How about you spend less time on pathetic little gifs and complaining and more time organising with your friends to move to a server together.

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Here here~ /highfive

This game was getting totally awesome was loving it, loving the big plans for the game and everything boy's i cant wait... but now they decide to F**k us over with this bulls**t,

SE ever said themself that they have picked out the 4 way's to merge they picked the dearest and the hardest making more work for them ><

SE love u loads guys but wth r u doing over there with this stupid merge? r u guys r crack?

Ah yes it took about 15 seconds of my life to make this "silly gif". Oh my how will I ever recover.

Such is the life of the MS Paint pro.

Y u still here?! Quick go make some friends to merge with.

Let's get back on track guys *winks* but i will say i <3 ms paint

The server merge method in my opinion is good. It allows organised linkshells and friends to stick together while maintaining an essentially balanced population across all servers. The people who aren't playing don't have the benefit of choosing, and as far as I'm concerned shouldn't. If you're not playing now there's a good chance you will be playing at either 1.21 (before the merge) or 2.0 (when the servers are remade anyway).
This whole shit kicking fiesta is premature, if only people would think things through.

I will agree to that

Blanket merges suck for the new people coming in. Always has, always will. This way we are all getting a fresh start with new faces and nobody "owns" the server.

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Originally Posted by KiriA500

There's nothing complicated about this. It's just the community overreacting like always.

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Pretty much exactly this, as usual. Urge to kill rising, need to not visit these forums for a while lol.

This game is proving to be a giant overly complicated mess in itself. lol
Its like SE's production motto for this game is "if it can be annoying, it will be annoying."

The reason something like what Rift did wasn't chosen because they fear about EU players not being able to all get to the same server if other players chose to transfer there, or something like that. Basically EU is to blame for everything.

TOR style was not mentioned. There you can select every login which server to play in. You have even test server to see beforehand what will happen in future and help finding bugs. I have understood that all servers are in Japan. It should not be too difficult to allow this kind system. Think how many ls to join and cultures to visit this way.
This kind merge will lead to even worse situation. Some servers too full and some even more empty. And when 2.0 comes with masses of new players - the removed servers are needed back. It would not need much sw to transfer the player parameters between servers within login.

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Originally Posted by Colino

Game: Rift
System used: Players are given a suggested server to join but are free to join a different one if they wish
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See the pattern here? These are all standardized and acceptable ways to deal with underpopulated servers.

So why, why are you going out of your way to make this as much of a problem as possible? Why are we forced to divide communities and split because you're don't want to name the new servers and or give us a manageable system like every other MMO has done in the past... including your own?

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Exactly, and the time limit is another issue. Rift, as far as I know, has that choice indefinitely. If you quit now (for financial reasons, life issues, who knows), and your server poofs meanwhile, when you return, this is still the option you're given. It's not "Oops, waited to long, you're out of luck, loser!"

Checkout XIVPads server merge directory, should be useful if things carry on the way they are.