About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012)

New update on the main page.
Interesting. Discuss.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=21c8a6a0fd176c0218f291536ca419f3e1963950

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Originally Posted by NefarioCall

New update on the main page.
Interesting. Discuss.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...a419f3e1963950

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All I can say is bye-bye Besaid and your RP. I say we band together now and make an "unofficial RP gtfo server".

http://i.imgur.com/BV3rQ.jpg

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Originally Posted by Brigandier

All I can say is bye-bye Besaid and your RP. I say we band together now and make an "unofficial RP gtfo server".

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We wont miss you dont worry :D


On another note, Its interesting they are letting EVERYONE choose the new server they want to go to, and how they are doing it in general


this will be a very important month for people to be susbscribed during, lest they get tossed to a random server when they return to the game

Wonder how many people going to cry over Friend List / Black List / Linkshell going to be deleted lol

Dam this sucks o.o i'm going to lose a lot of friends who not going to pick the same word :( RIP Selbina.

So we not going to get the names before we pick? or can we later switch to the world we want?

1 Mar is going to be a very busy day. Linkshells that want to stay together are going to be up bright and early selecting their world. Looks like they tried for a fair procedure for settling duplicate names. Have no complaints there. Wonder how many French and Germans are actually going to select World 10?

this is dumb cause some of players playing other games or taking a break from 2.0 will be affected by this. So that means they have to start a new char or pay for one month in order to stick to their old LS????? that's BS

I'm excited to merge into a new server with my entire LS.

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To select a destination, an existing playable character must be associated with a player’s service account. As long as a player has at least one usable character, a destination World may be chosen for all characters in the service account, including characters that have not yet been paid for.

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I don't mind that things are going to be deleted(it's more just annoying) but what I don't like about this is that if you don't have an active account your going to be unable to select your final destination when you come back. As it stands now a large portion of my LS which all traveled from XI to XIV together have decided to hold out playing until 2.0. However now when they decide to come back they are going to have either remake there character(assuming the world isn't full) or be lucky enough to have randomly been thrown on the correct world.

I'm still disappointed that not everyone gets an option to change their character names, even if they are the only ones with the name at the time.

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Originally Posted by neorei

this is dumb cause some of players playing other games or taking a break from 2.0 will be affected by this. So that means they have to start a new char or pay for one month in order to stick to their old LS????? that's BS

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That's the price you pay (or don't).

Sorry, couldn't resist.

They really had to screw everything this time too, right? it was too hard to check the servers with lowest population and do a normal merge...

No, f*ck the community, let's mix everything, after all this is still a beta >.>

Although this is needed I hope I can get on the same server as my 2 LS groups.It should also be good for cleaning out LS lists that are full of no returns.

It's not that hard to converse with your friends/linkshell(s) and figure out which world you want to move to together.

Complaining about "screwing the community" is beyond worthless; If the people are important to you, you will talk to them and make sure you don't lose them.

We all knew this merge was coming and SE did it the fairest way possible by allowing everyone to do whatever they want move wise.

Get over it.

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Originally Posted by Alcide

No, f*ck the community, let's mix everything, after all this is still a beta >.>

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Yes exactly what I was thinking. This way isn't community friendly at all.

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

It's not that hard to converse with your friends/linkshell(s) and figure out which world you want to move to together.

Complaining about "screwing the community" is beyond worthless; If the people are important to you, you will talk to them and make sure you don't lose them.

We all knew this merge was coming and SE did it the fairest way possible by allowing everyone to do whatever they want move wise.

Get over it.

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I guess you don't have a lot of friends

mumble... and if an ex-f2p-player of FFXIV returns (and then reactivate his pg) after world merge.... where will it end? in Limbo? :O

yaa.... there's a few people whom I will miss that were in my ls(don't play anymore but will play again). I have no source of telling em HEY this server! Well, even so, time to make new friends right, a new adventure awaits us all ^.^

Call the Server 10 "Rhineland"

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Originally Posted by KumaAkuma

Yes exactly what I was thinking. This way isn't community friendly at all.

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W/e bro, this individual part of the community is cheering.

It's the inactive players that get it worst of all, they don't even get a choice to try and stay with thier friends or not.

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Originally Posted by neorei

this is dumb cause some of players playing other games or taking a break from 2.0 will be affected by this. So that means they have to start a new char or pay for one month in order to stick to their old LS????? that's BS

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What about friend is in linkshell A and going to world 1 but there linkshell pick world 2 :( this going to suck big time :( I want to be in selbina again and watch the world i pick become a name i don't like...

They should give the possibility to transfer also with no active account imo..

How about we designate the New Worlds as the current most populated servers? So the current most populated server would be New World 01, second most populated would be New World 02, etc. That way at least people in the top 10 current most populated servers could be unified if they so choose to. This would especially be helpful for people with multiple linkshells. Just a thought but would be nice if someone with actual numbers could start a thread to help get current worlds together.

TL;DR
Let's designate worlds and get our linkshells to go to the same New World.

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Originally Posted by Rizon

1 Mar is going to be a very busy day. Linkshells that want to stay together are going to be up bright and early selecting their world. Looks like they tried for a fair procedure for settling duplicate names. Have no complaints there. Wonder how many French and Germans are actually going to select World 10?

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I hope they all go there.

There is plenty of options for those who aren't going to return.Like the post mentions there is follow lists there is also Guildwork and FFXIV Pads there are options to co-ordinate

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Originally Posted by KumaAkuma

I guess you don't have a lot of friends

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My friends consist of my linkshell. Easy.

It's still not hard to talk to people; No matter how many "friends" you have.
One could hardly believe you have countless friends on servers that currently hold minimal players.

=( too bad LS messages aren't part of patch 1.21 would be sooo much easier to coordinate and inform LS members.

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Originally Posted by ChiefCurrahee

=( too bad LS messages aren't part of patch 1.21 would be sooo much easier to coordinate and inform LS members.

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I AGREE WITH THIS,



i'm so upset lol, now i can't sleep

Forum shitstorm incoming. This is what you all get for whining about the (supposedly) low population servers. Happy now nublets? Enjoy.

On a side note i actualy like the way SE are going to do it, it seems very fair for all players.

This is quite possibly one of the worst decisions they've chosen to make. To be blunt they're now saying "Pay us right now to keep playing with your friends after the merge or f*** off" to many players who aren't currently playing. What I don't understand is why they're not doing a simple server merge as they did with FFXI, merge two servers together. This leaves players who aren't paying right now but will later the ability to stay with their friends. But doing as they're planning now we're going to lose so many people we've come to know to this crap. I hate to do something like this and I know it probably won't make a lick of difference, but it could be enough to just make me quit myself. What's the point playing if you either have to start from scratch, or never experience the game with your friends again? I love FFXIV, and I'm still here even after some of the questionable stuff.

Yoshi-P, Tanaka, whoever the hell is in charge I strongly strongly urge you to reconsider these plans for the merges. Right now you're going to force your playerbase to choose between paying for a game they don't justify as being worth it yet or keeping their characters where they belong.

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Originally Posted by Mihana

This is quite possibly one of the worst decisions they've chosen to make. To be blunt they're now saying "Pay us right now to keep playing with your friends after the merge or f*** off" to many players who aren't currently playing. What I don't understand is why they're not doing a simple server merge as they did with FFXI, merge two servers together. This leaves players who aren't paying right now but will later the ability to stay with their friends. But doing as they're planning now we're going to lose so many people we've come to know to this crap. I hate to do something like this and I know it probably won't make a lick of difference, but it could be enough to just make me quit myself. What's the point playing if you either have to start from scratch, or never experience the game with your friends again? I love FFXIV, and I'm still here even after some of the questionable stuff.

Yoshi-P, Tanaka, whoever the hell is in charge I strongly strongly urge you to reconsider these plans for the merges. Right now you're going to force your playerbase to choose between paying for a game they don't justify as being worth it yet or keeping their characters where they belong.

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ITT: People who think SE should give a crap about non-subscribers.

lol I just remembered RL friend playing on same server as me gonna get shifted because he's still at boot camp and job training during this server merge LOOOOL orz.... doubt he will be able get get in while he's at training

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Originally Posted by Brigandier

ITT: People who think SE should give a crap about non-subscribers.

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This hurts subscribers as much as it does nonsubscribers.

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Originally Posted by Rau

This hurts subscribers as much as it does nonsubscribers.

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I'm hurt that our worlds will be more robust with players too.
I know.. totalllly sucks.

Like many people I have several friends who have had to stop playing for one reason or another. Many were planning to come back in a few months. I say "were" because I am pretty sure that when I tell them they will be shipped off to some random server and we probably won't be able to play with each other again they will never come back. Likely, they will tell other people how much they were punished by SquareEnix for daring to take a break from the game. For an MMO with one of the worst reputations on the market this decision is baffling.

I know this post/thread will probably not be read by anyone at SE. But on the off chance that someone is listening it would be nice if they rethink this a bit. At least get a "pay to transfer" option up and running.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

lol I just remembered RL friend playing on same server as me gonna get shifted because he's still at boot camp and job training during this server merge LOOOOL orz.... doubt he will be able get get in while he's at training

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You could use that "one time phone call" and get his info ^.^
I would also enjoy playing with most of you on these forums, yes we have our differences, though, I think it could be really fun. You could also get your chance at bugging me with your goobuuu ;)

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

My friends consist of my linkshell. Easy.

It's still not hard to talk to people; No matter how many "friends" you have.
One could hardly believe you have countless friends on servers that currently hold minimal players.

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You mean all the people who are currently away till "2.0" or the people I don't have in my linkshell but talk a lot to, but they have to follow their own linkshell? Or the people you lose when you finally picked a server to go to and then ends up being "full" and others are left out. Sure you can switch to another server with your current active linkshell members, but getting all those other types of people all over: no way.

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Originally Posted by Toaster

Like many people I have several friends who have had to stop playing for one reason or another. Many were planning to come back in a few months. I say "were" because I am pretty sure that when I tell them they will be shipped off to some random server and we probably won't be able to play with each other again they will never come back.

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Biggest problem right here

Players who do not select a destination World during this period will be automatically distributed across the Worlds.

What a TERRIBLE system. I don't want to be split up from the hundreds of people I am familiar with on Trabia. I'm not in linkshells with all of my friends, I have many friends across trabia, some I only know from the occasional crafting agreement, some I have defeated ifrit with and others xp parties.

Distributing us ACROSS worlds will scatter us and ruin the community I love, this may very well ruin the game for me.