World Transfers

I'm just curious if theres going to be a world transfer down the line. Just asking :)

Yeah they are currently in the process of gathering data on individual server population at different regional times. After that's all said and done they are going to give us information so that we can server transfer, congregate into specific servers at our discretion, so we can enjoy the game with a large population =P

Greetings,

As Estellios mentioned, we posted some words from Yoshida on the current plan in December. In that post, we said we'd be watching the population numbers in January and planning how to proceed from there. We also said we might have an update around mid-January, but I wanted to let you know that there is a slight delay with that and we plan on making further details known as soon as we can.

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slight delay.

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RUN FOR THE HILLS NOW BAYOHNE BEFORE PEOPLE SEE THIS!

Someone quick, flip a table over as my rage has yet to find a way to express itself. orz

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Someone quick, flip a table over as my rage has yet to find a way to express itself. orz

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(ﾉ `Д´)ﾉ ~┻━┻

Also, I'm not surprised about the delay at this point. Just get it done as soon as you can, as it will only help the game.

*sigh* As usual, at this point anything that is late should be considered on time when it comes to SE, it should just be expected. /tantrum "But I wanna play with more people now! *grumble* *grumble* Never enough people to start a party..."

DELAY ALERT

I REPEAT

DELAY ALERT


EVERYONE, BRACE FOR IMPACT

im still in favor of mergers not transfers. although i dont know every one on my server personally ive grown quite accustom to seeing them around even ifs its only a wave here and there.

Rep Response - 01/20/12 Regarding server merge - still working out the details
Update regarding server merge details


Originally Posted by Foxclon
こんにちは。
Hello,


Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida
実施の時期、方法、仕様については確定次第、改めてお知らせ致します。
（おおよそ、1月中旬に次のご報告を予定しています）
Once the timing, method is confirmed will let you know
(planning around mid January to report on this)
以前に吉田Pより、1月中旬に次のご報告をとお知らせしておりましたが、
実施時期、実施方法、統合しキャラクター名が重複した場合の仕様などを詰めており、
詳細をお知らせするには、まだ暫く時間を要する見込みです。
Previously Yoshida Producer said he will report in mid January but we are looking into when to implement, how to implement and when we do implement what kind of method to take for those with duplicate names. For more details it will take some more time.

お知らせから統合の実行までには十分な期間を確保するようにいたしますので、
次のお知らせまで今しばらくお待ちください。
Once we report the details we will have enough time before the merge so please wait for the next update on this one.

できるだけ混乱なく統合を行えるよう引き続き慎重に検討していきます。
Will try to make it possible so the merge can be done with least confusion

Hope this helps OP!

Hopefully the delay isn't too long. I really would like to play with a larger population so I can scout out more LS members and have more pickup players to do stuff with.

I doubt there will be any other players stupid enough to name their character Brucey Bangbang. So, I assume it's all of you even more idiotic players with Xxsephiroth Cloudxx as your name that they have to make sure isn't screwed up.

sweet! Hopefully it comes soon :D

Thanks for the info Bayohne, here's hoping it doesn't take long.

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Its kind of a double edged sword isnt' it? On one side, I like that I am from a small server, everyone pretty much knows everyone ^^, which I really like. On the other side, it does get kinda lonely from time to time or difficult when trying to put together a coffer run or something ;; I look forward to the merge, and hope it means bigger and better things for us!

Glad someone brought this up - I was looking around about this a few days ago. When I saw the OP's server I was like what's Saronia... I didn't even remember seeing it on the server list when I thought about what server I was going to pick, but then I scrolled down the thread and saw more people from it posting. I've noticed most posts about this have been from lesser populated servers. Then I realized no one from my server has posted on this yet, and then it dawned on me - I've never seen anyone from my server post in English General Discussion (and my world forum has been dead since I've starting playing).

Palamecia sits around 140-220 players on average (dismal). Aside from being able to join a good Linkshell, I don't know what I was thinking :(. At the server select screen, it was right in the middle (population wise) with 2 Chocobos. I can only imagine the situation in servers that were lower than that (about half). I generally don't see a soul besides 30 or so in Ul'dah and about the same in and around Broken Water. I've had to solo throughout my entire experience (aside from some help provided by my LS) and items in the Market Wards could probably be a whole lot more numerous. It really didn't help matters that they released a mount the day after I walked around and grinded the repetitive GC quests for my Chocobo. Also, it was incredibly difficult (and awkward) trying to get an active LS, and up until actually getting one I almost quit entirely. Finally, because the community is so multi-language in nature, that makes the situation so much more dire. If I didn't enjoy the actual game so much, obviously I would of stopped playing a while ago.

So point is, something's got to be done about this. I know it's being looked into, but SE's focusing on 2.0 and its release. For the time being, half the servers are obsolete and it's really hurting the current player-base. This is supposed to be a 'massively' multiplayer online experience. I couldn't imagine leveling a second Disciples of War / Magic class now, and it really bothers me that I feel forced to stick with one thing and grind 50ish (by myself) just so I can play end game content with the few people on my server.

SE: Help. =X

If I were yoou Bulwarkz, I would just reroll on a more populated server. Judging by your signature, you really don't have alot invested ( no offense). Its out of the question for me at this point, I have all jobs @ 50 and 2 crafts @ 50 and various others 20 and above.;;

make a THIRD name

Premium Virtue Awesomeness

lols

but yeh we need some mergies =D and im not bothered about name stuffs. There is very very very little people with identical names. http://xivpads.com/?-Census&Names

Could you imagine the amount of Leonheart/Lionhearts on one server after merges?

was going to come back for .21 or .22 but no way in hell if there is no merges prior to it. gob mount be damned.

My subscription will be lapsing soon (everybody but like 1 or 2 people I know quit when fees started), so I really hope details on this come out before I can't take action.

I'd definitely prefer merger to transfers, as then if people come back in the future, we won't be scattered on different servers. And if they do do transfers, I hope that people who are inactive at the time of the transfer will be able to use the transfer whenever they reactivate.

I hope they do mergers, personally.

Alot of my Linkshell from FFXI played XIV awhile back on my server but don't plan to play until 2.0, so Mergers would benefit much more as everyone would just move (or not..and people would move to my server lol)

I also see people in Ul'dah often but that's generally it. and then there's getting an Exp party or buying mid-level gear off the market place which is abit troublesome.

I'm so scared of server merge now... that means more ppl farming sheeps and bomb ashes... and GC supply will be filled faster :O
don't like competition :(

When I joined all of the servers had at least medium population, that obviously only lasted about a month (if that). Now my server seems to sit on the low pop end. From what I understand I think all of them do aside from Besaid, Figaro, Selbina, etc. With that said though, I kind of like the low population... its cozy. As someone else said, you feel like you know everyone, even if you don't.

When I played XI I was on a low pop server as well, it got merged into Valefor, and now I don't even remember the name of the original... Will this be Kashuan's fate as well?

So sad :(

WHAT IS THERE TO OBSERVE LOOK AT THE SERVER NUMBERS NOW!! LOOK AT THEM!!!!! THERE ARE NO PLAYERS HERE FOR ANY OF THE GROUP CONTENT?

The last thing I wanna hear is "Hmm we're not sure what the situation is with these populations..."

Even non-player non forum users can find this info in 3 seconds flat. YOU have access to server info do you think we believe that you need time to observe the non existent population?!

Arrhhh....

*flips over a keyboard*

First the no quest for goobbue ad now this. SE you could at least try to put some effort to your excuses so it wouldn't be so blatantly obvious that you don't give a bastore sardine about what's going on in the game right now.

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WHAT IS THERE TO OBSERVE LOOK AT THE SERVER NUMBERS NOW!! LOOK AT THEM!!!!! THERE ARE NO PLAYERS HERE FOR ANY OF THE GROUP CONTENT?

The last thing I wanna hear is "Hmm we're not sure what the situation is with these populations..."

Even non-player non forum users can find this info in 3 seconds flat. YOU have access to server info do you think we believe that you need time to observe the non existent population?!

Arrhhh....

*flips over a keyboard*

First the no quest for goobbue ad now this. SE you could at least try to put some effort to your excuses so it wouldn't be so blatantly obvious that you don't give a bastore sardine about what's going on in the game right now.

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Going to tackle your points here...
They need time to examine server populations to plan how the merge will work(will it be world>world merges, spread the populations of dead worlds to live worlds, or user chooses)
If they rush into this chaos will follow, they want to make sure that all worlds following the merge will be populated enough with equal persons of all time zones so you can always find a group for whatever.

And going off topic: The Goobbue mount was a gift, from the devs to us the player base for supporting the game.

Dear SE if you introduce 5x the mouths to feed..... give us moar grade 5 and more karakul.....

that is all.....



EDIT: and moar caravan escort, perhaps at both rank 30 locations even if its total copy paste

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When I joined all of the servers had at least medium population, that obviously only lasted about a month (if that). Now my server seems to sit on the low pop end. From what I understand I think all of them do aside from Besaid, Figaro, Selbina, etc. With that said though, I kind of like the low population... its cozy. As someone else said, you feel like you know everyone, even if you don't.

When I played XI I was on a low pop server as well, it got merged into Valefor, and now I don't even remember the name of the original... Will this be Kashuan's fate as well?

So sad :(

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KUJATA!

/10char :)

In case you're worried about having to change your name, you can go here and type in your character's name. It will display all the people who have the same name as you.

Type either your whole name to see identical matches or just one of your names if you want to see who has same first or last names.

I'd bet there are very few people who actually need to change their name because of a duplicate. Unless your name is like Sakura Chan or something lol (there are only 4 of these actually :P)

Yeah, generally Anime related names are the more likely case -- Or people trying to be spiteful lol.

Just a reminder ....
FFXIV is not a free game anymore..
Consumer expects more now ....... coz .. we pay ...
Not because we pay we are a big F
Just hope that you guys dont take things the same way as the game is free.

Foxclon recently a follow-up in regards to our last update that I'll share here as well. It will be a bit longer before we announce all the details for the server merge, but for those users that are quite concerned with character names, we want to share some details ahead of time.

In the case that a character’s name overlaps with another character due to the world merge, except for the character that has priority, a name change will be necessary. We are currently at the stage where we are working out the details for what constitutes priority, but we are planning to have a couple of requirements to determine which character name takes priority. We will be announcing the details on priority order, timing, and details on the merge along with the main world merge announcement, so please wait just a bit longer.

And if you're worried about things like your Lodestone History if a name change takes place, rest assured that Lodestone and other areas will automatically be changed and content like your history will remain as is.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Foxclon recently a follow-up in regards to our last update that I'll share here as well. It will be a bit longer before we announce all the details for the server merge, but for those users that are quite concerned with character names, we want to share some details ahead of time.

In the case that a character’s name overlaps with another character due to the world merge, except for the character that has priority, a name change will be necessary. We are currently at the stage where we are working out the details for what constitutes priority, but we are planning to have a couple of requirements to determine which character name takes priority. We will be announcing the details on priority order, timing, and details on the merge along with the main world merge announcement, so please wait just a bit longer.

And if you're worried about things like your Lodestone History if a name change takes place, rest assured that Lodestone and other areas will automatically be changed and content like your history will remain as is.

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Nice, I hope how active players are will be taken into account for a priority, would hate to loose my name because someones alt they pay for but never use has the same.

Yeah, you see -- the problem would then come from Retainers overlapping lol.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Foxclon recently a follow-up in regards to our last update that I'll share here as well. It will be a bit longer before we announce all the details for the server merge, but for those users that are quite concerned with character names, we want to share some details ahead of time.

In the case that a character’s name overlaps with another character due to the world merge, except for the character that has priority, a name change will be necessary. We are currently at the stage where we are working out the details for what constitutes priority, but we are planning to have a couple of requirements to determine which character name takes priority. We will be announcing the details on priority order, timing, and details on the merge along with the main world merge announcement, so please wait just a bit longer.

And if you're worried about things like your Lodestone History if a name change takes place, rest assured that Lodestone and other areas will automatically be changed and content like your history will remain as is.

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Would it be possible for us to have the option to change our names this upcoming server merge, Regardless if you have a conflicting name issue?

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Nice, I hope how active players are will be taken into account for a priority, would hate to loose my name because someones alt they pay for but never use has the same.

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You are the only who has this name across all servers.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

In the case that a character’s name overlaps with another character due to the world merge, except for the character that has priority, a name change will be necessary. We are currently at the stage where we are working out the details for what constitutes priority, but we are planning to have a couple of requirements to determine which character name takes priority. We will be announcing the details on priority order, timing, and details on the merge along with the main world merge announcement, so please wait just a bit longer.

And if you're worried about things like your Lodestone History if a name change takes place, rest assured that Lodestone and other areas will automatically be changed and content like your history will remain as is.

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In the case of a Server Merge: (Where SE says you on server A must leave and move to either server X,Y or Z)

Bay, all SE needs to do on this is allow priority to the person who registered that Character Name First who also happens to have an active account (i.e. is paying to play the game). Because, honestly had both players tried to register for the same name on the same server, whoever registered it first would have the name, the other person would have had to come up with something else. The 'must have an currently active account thing' is just to keep people from whining that it's unfair that someone who quit 8 months ago kidnapped their name. This just seems like the simplest and most fair way.

In the case of Server Transfers (where a player decides to leave a server to go to another but SE doesn't force the decision)

Name Priority should remain with the person who was ORIGINALLY on the server in question so long as they have an active account. They are already known by that server's community by that character name. The 'new' player will not be known by their character name on that server yet so they should be the one who chooses a different name. Also, since the player decided on their own accord to swap servers, the people already on that server shouldn't have their lives affected.

Although SE could also send an notice/announcement to players with shared names warning them that they may be prompted to do a name change if/when server mergers happen. Maybe allow them to 'volunteer' somehow for a name change if they feel like being gracious etc. Or at least warn them which servers have 'shared names' so they could choose to avoid them if they love their character name so much.


This being said, I also remember reading in a dev post awhile back something about possibly dropping surnames and/or requiring characters to have shorter names. So this could all be moote as many/all of us might need to rename ourselves.

Names of active characters should take priority over those who are not activated.

Take care also not to merge too many servers.

Do it like FFXI >.> It will take too long and too complicated if they got to go through who was active first or who has more achievements and stuff ; ; But meh regardless they will do it how they gonna do it..no matter what we say. :)

Besides..we should all get to change our name in 2.0 no? Race/gender change without name change would make 0 sense as I seen someone post on here before there last name was "Chick" lol wouldn't work too well...