POLL: what style server merge do you prefer?

1)Straight server merge:

- Server A & B are combined to form server 1

2)Free choice:

- Select what server to move to?


A lot of people are upset with the thought of people who they have gamed with over the past 17 months suddenly being on a different server. Or even more so the people who have taken a hiatus from the game to return finding no familiar names or friends.

So maybe with enough support one way or another we can steer the dev team to a new decision on how to handle server merge and world populations.

If you have an further input, as in alternative merge methods or thoughts post it, and keep this thread bumped for forum goers in different time zones.

Like this for option #1

like this for option #2

i made a thread for this

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-Server-Merge

updated main topic to reflect reason to create a "Poll"

Liked the first option.

They just need to take the 10 most popular servers and merge the less popular ones into them. This option is FAR superior because:

1. The devs would have ALL the control over balancing the worlds, thus ENSURING that each server pop is balanced by choosing which worlds merge with which other worlds.

2. All the communities created on the existing servers won't be splintered!!!!!!!!

3. Unsubscribed players and players who will be unable to access the game won't be pushed into a random server. (The current system would cause all these players to be alienated if they planned to resubscribe for 2.0, and this means these players WON'T COME BACK FOR 2.0!)

4. Everyone on the 10 most popular servers will be able to keep their server name.

IT WOULD SOLVE ALL OF THE PROBLEMS EVERYONE IS UPSET ABOUT WITH THE CURRENT CRAPPY MERGE SYSTEM THEY ANNOUNCED!

Plus, they could still give French and German speaking players the option to switch to server 10.

[SIZE="5"]PLEASE SWITCH TO THIS PLAN, YOSHI-P, OR FFXIV WILL SUFFER![/SIZE]

i prefer server a plus server be = server x, that way we dont have to do the work to keep our community's together.

I know some of you forum police don't like bumps, but oh well. Saving established server communites might be more important to a lot of people.

No thank you.

yes please