Please save the small servers!!! (goblin)

Small servers are becoming empty, Goblin has less than 2000 active members and decreasing daily. Party finder has become barren, Duty finder takes 30+ minutes for anything, cities and towns are empty.

I don't/can't server transfer like everyone else due to the fact that I own a mansion and the name Vincent Valentine is banned now so I would lose it forever. Please lock the 10k+ servers

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Originally Posted by Mizukaru

Small servers are becoming empty, Goblin has less than 2000 active members and decreasing daily. Party finder has become barren, Duty finder takes 30+ minutes for anything, cities and towns are empty.

I don't/can't server transfer like everyone else due to the fact that I own a mansion and the name Vincent Valentine is banned now so I would lose it forever. Please lock the 10k+ servers

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Duty finder is cross-server... :( but ultimately SE will do what's best for the playerbase, mansions/names be damned. ._.;

it is cross server, but here's the issue, two the the 3 shared servers with goblin are less than 2k. makes for still incredibly long que times.

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Originally Posted by Mizukaru

it is cross server, but here's the issue, two the the 3 shared servers with goblin are less than 2k. makes for still incredibly long que times.

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I think queue times are pretty awful across the board at the moment (depending on which job you're queuing as D: ), I get what you're saying though. Honestly I feel like a merger needs to take place on a bunch of the low pop servs.

As for your name; I don't think you'd lose it unless your destination server also had someone with the same name (but then it could get funky depending on how they did the merger, and there might be a crazy rule like "Whoever made their character first gets to keep the name" etc). aaaand to top it off; if there was a merger, I think SE would find a way for y'all to keep your houses. But that would require that they look into the shitstorm that is the housing system... ; ; lol

Why should people work 2 weeks for a level 200 ESO top when they can spam Diadem and get multiple 210 items. Duty finder is long now because many people don't see the need to get ESO gear. They can get their ESO's there as well. Someone needs to fix Diadem.

Unfortunately, Vincent Valentine is a banned name since the launch of FF14 ARR. It was only available during beta because SE forgot to ban it. SE bans all final fantasy character names such as: zidane tribal, cloud strife exc exc. So if I were to transfer, mansion / name would be gone forever.

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Originally Posted by Mizukaru

Unfortunately, Vincent Valentine is a banned name since the launch of FF14 ARR. It was only available during beta because SE forgot to ban it. SE bans all final fantasy character names such as: zidane tribal, cloud strife exc exc. So if I were to transfer, mansion / name would be gone forever.

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Unless I'm mistaken, if someone were to report your name now, it could probably still be changed. :P

Edit: Also, I'm going to say it should be since it does break the ToS. Semi-related, people that rip off names from popular media annoy me. Come up with your own name.

It still makes me scratch my head how or even why people clamour to make characters on the over filled ones as it is to the point you have to ninja your way in at like 3am or after service. I guess once your in your good but still, I used to be on Goblin myself but perhaps they will offer up either free transfers if it gets too low or even a merge. Though I can only assume the way to keep that would be to give extra wards and have your house be moved to the new ward, same plot.

thankfully not, I've sent in several tickets before. They know they oops'd but it would be unfair for them to do that do players who rightfully claimed the names that aren't Technically against the ToS.

Unless you're patient/ lucky it's difficult to get in a very populated server like Gilgamesh/ Balmung when making a new character. As long as people pay $18 to transfer to servers low populated servers will always slowly lose players.

They need to make a free server transfer week like they did during 2.0; just make it so that populated servers are locked during that time

these are all such good ideas yet SE is to proud to ever admit to "servers dying" or listening to the community for advice.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

It still makes me scratch my head how or even why people clamour to make characters on the over filled ones as it is to the point you have to ninja your way in at like 3am or after service. I guess once your in your good but still, I used to be on Goblin myself but perhaps they will offer up either free transfers if it gets too low or even a merge. Though I can only assume the way to keep that would be to give extra wards and have your house be moved to the new ward, same plot.

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So we can play with friends and guildies who are already established on said servers.

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Originally Posted by Mizukaru

these are all such good ideas yet SE is to proud to ever admit to "servers dying" or listening to the community for advice.

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Usually it takes time; it took an incredibly long time before they started doing server merges back in FFXI. To be honest it could use another downsize now; but on the plus side, they did take action (though a little on the late side).

What are you trying to queue up for in DF? Because I'm also from Goblin and I have zero issues. I see plenty of people running around, but yes, I will admit, PF is a bit empty. But that's simply because most already have groups they flock with. Duty finder on the other hand isn't exclusive to our server. The only reason a DF should be empty is if you are running content that no one in the game really like's to run anymore as it doesn't provide anything that people really want anymore.

But posts like these do nothing to help us. In fact, it makes people LESS likely to want to join Goblin. It's not actually dead. But every time you say it is, people are more likely to avoid it because, who wants to join a dead server? Yes, it's lower population. For me, that's great. It means my market prices sell higher (not as frequently though, but the difference in price usually makes up for that). Look at the upsides to our server instead of the down. I've known multiple people to recently transfer over to Goblin because of word of mouth in my FC.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Why should people work 2 weeks for a level 200 ESO top when they can spam Diadem and get multiple 210 items. Duty finder is long now because many people don't see the need to get ESO gear. They can get their ESO's there as well. Someone needs to fix Diadem.

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You can't use diadem gear for glamour.

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Originally Posted by Felis

You can't use diadem gear for glamour.

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I don't know I have a 210 bottom and it appears to allow me to use the glamor feature. I'll have to verify it when out of my duty but I don't see it saying you can't.

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Originally Posted by Felis

You can't use diadem gear for glamour.

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Really? Because I have my diadem boots glamed to boots of the divine light when they originally were the weathered bard boots.

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Originally Posted by Black_Wing

So we can play with friends and guildies who are already established on said servers.

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Who at this point seem to have also transferred over due to other reasons or people :P

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Originally Posted by Jetstream_Fox

Really? Because I have my diadem boots glamed to boots of the divine light when they originally were the weathered bard boots.

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Thank you, appears to work for me too. That doesn't negate the point of fewer people running roulettes because of Diadem.

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Originally Posted by Khalithar

Unless I'm mistaken, if someone were to report your name now, it could probably still be changed. :P

Edit: Also, I'm going to say it should be since it does break the ToS. Semi-related, people that rip off names from popular media annoy me. Come up with your own name.

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Hey! My name, Keyalios Kirito, is very original and not from any series what so ever. Kinda. A little. It will soon be changed...

I'm a Goblin player as well and I have to disagree that it needs any kind of saving. The party finder has been much more active since the patch, I always see Diadem, hunt, and Thordan groups forming during the day, I have yet to have any duty finder last more than ten minutes since 3.1 (and amazingly, dps queues have been super quick for the last month or so. Quicker than on my tank even), and I still see a lot of new players running around the streets which suggest to me we're keeping a healthy population.

Mind you, we are one of the smaller servers and there are pros and cons to that. I think your dilemma is less about Goblin and more about your name. You'll just have to decide if living on a larger server is worth giving up. If you do transfer, Goblin wishes you the best of luck out there.

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Originally Posted by Khalithar

Edit: Also, I'm going to say it should be since it does break the ToS. Semi-related, people that rip off names from popular media annoy me. Come up with your own name.

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Originally Posted by Mizukaru

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Just wanted to say I saw you the other day. It wasn't your name that drew my attention to you as much as your albino look and your chest piece. That armor is awesome, grats!

Poor Goblin. I transferred off recently (right before 3.1) to Balmung. I couldn't stand not being able to find groups for stuff and having almost nobody around in towns, even during prime time. I wish they'd do something to help the smaller servers, like a cross-server PF or something.

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Originally Posted by Malicewolf

But posts like these do nothing to help us. In fact, it makes people LESS likely to want to join Goblin. It's not actually dead. But every time you say it is, people are more likely to avoid it because, who wants to join a dead server?

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If a player wants to join a server because of its population, then they'd make sure to ask around for the most populated servers. No one would (again, specifically looking for server population) join your server unless someone lies and says your server has high population, even if there wasn't any thread on forums about your low pop server. Just saying. I personally joined a high populated server to join a friend because he said it was one of the highest populated in Primal data (Hyperion) and it was true, people everywhere, PF filled with lots of stuff, active boards, active fates farming and queues weren't so bad, except for PvP as always. If otherwise I wouldn't have asked for the high pop one, I'd have joined a server with a name I liked.

I joined Goblin purposefully to join friends. They joined it purposefully to avoid the massive hordes of people. I know of people who transferred OUT of Balmung because it's overly crowded. Yes, it has it perks, but a smaller pop size has it's perks too. We had a small FC transfer to Goblin to join ours and all of them were quite happy with our market prices (because not as much competition, prices stay higher and still sell). We still have houses available and they are not super high priced like the high pop servers. We know a lot of people in game and recognize players all the time wherever we go. Not everyone is looking to join high pop servers honestly.
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