Server merge: Hidden server names.

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Originally Posted by Aruseth

I read that they recommend 10 for the german and french so i am wondering if any of been deemed for NA. really dont want to get stuck on a world where its all jp or gm fh... anyone heard anything?

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Other then unofficial (user) groups no other recommendation has been made, nope.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

We are aware that some players may be frustrated at this, and we apologize for that but please try to understand our reasoning. We haven’t decided which World will get what name yet. For, things like drawing lots and other methods, we want to think about this separately.

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It's for the best. I do wish the servers would get all new names though. ;3

Give the 10 new world a new name problem fix :) but don't tell us too this would fix everyone being mad about losing there world name

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

I would like to offer some insight into why we decided not to display the World names.

The operations and development teams held many internal discussions regarding how the Worlds were going to be merged. We discussed displaying the World names and allowing players to choose their destination and we also considered having some Worlds dissolved and merged into other existing worlds.

We did consider deciding on the World names beforehand, but the problem is that players often choose which World to go to based on its name (to be more specific, currently both Selbina and Gysahl are highly populated due to the popularity of the World names).

Therefore, when merging 18 servers into 10, you can imagine that there will be a rush to choose the Worlds that have popular names. These would fill up quickly and we would have to stop letting people in, and then it would end up being something of a lottery. Taking into consideration the time difference and what day etc, it was really hard to decide, but as we are making playing together as a community a priority, we have decided to hold back the World names and let people choose this way.

We are aware that some players may be frustrated at this, and we apologize for that but please try to understand our reasoning. We haven’t decided which World will get what name yet. For, things like drawing lots and other methods, we want to think about this separately.

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I can understand the thought process, though I'm wondering if maybe they could tell us now which of the 18 servers they consider to be the 10 most populated?

I really like my server's name, but since its something that won't be released until after the merge is done anyway, I'm almost thinking they should just come up with entirely new names for the new servers. I think people would be less frustrated.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

I would like to offer some insight into why we decided not to display the World names.

The operations and development teams held many internal discussions regarding how the Worlds were going to be merged. We discussed displaying the World names and allowing players to choose their destination and we also considered having some Worlds dissolved and merged into other existing worlds.

We did consider deciding on the World names beforehand, but the problem is that players often choose which World to go to based on its name (to be more specific, currently both Selbina and Gysahl are highly populated due to the popularity of the World names).

Therefore, when merging 18 servers into 10, you can imagine that there will be a rush to choose the Worlds that have popular names. These would fill up quickly and we would have to stop letting people in, and then it would end up being something of a lottery. Taking into consideration the time difference and what day etc, it was really hard to decide, but as we are making playing together as a community a priority, we have decided to hold back the World names and let people choose this way.

We are aware that some players may be frustrated at this, and we apologize for that but please try to understand our reasoning. We haven’t decided which World will get what name yet. For, things like drawing lots and other methods, we want to think about this separately.

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Not that unreasonable lol..

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Originally Posted by Katella_Avenlea

I can understand the thought process, though I'm wondering if maybe they could tell us now which of the 18 servers they consider to be the 10 most populated?

I really like my server's name, but since its something that won't be released until after the merge is done anyway, I'm almost thinking they should just come up with entirely new names for the new servers. I think people would be less frustrated.

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"If I can't have it, nobody will" ?

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It's really not that big a deal lol..

Top 10 obviously means high population, which we know 2 at least will likely be Gyshal and Selbina.

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People feel passionate about something, lets remove the reason to be passionate and stick them with some random shit they don't want rather than what they want.

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I really want to know why people are "passionate" about server names. The name of a server means absolutely nothing and has no effect on gameplay. The only effect it has on anything is popular names get picked more and then you end up with an overpopulated server. Or maybe you didn't know that Bahamut and Odin in FFXI were closed to character creation for nearly a year because those worlds were overcrowded?

It boggles my mind why people get so emotional about server names.

With XI i could understand, because all of the assholes, douchebags, greedy people and "I'll be better than everyone else" people moved to Hades and Remora when it opened therefore were dubbed the worst servers in XI and you know it by reputation.

...Aside things like that a server name means nothing..absolutely nothing as the only time you know you're on a specific server is when you boot up the game. No other community in terms of MMOs care about their Shard/Crystal/Portal/Realm etc name, just if its PvP or PK or PvE for example lol.

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Originally Posted by Nabiri

I do wish the servers would get all new names though. ;3

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Totally agreed - that's the only thing I didn't like about option 4... or any of them for this matter. Should be 10 fresh new server names regardless of how it's implemented.

Names like selbina are popular because many come from XI. I think we should use more XI names, maybe people could move from Selbina to *drumrolls* Mhuara!! tehehe :P Id go for it, lol.