Two Questions for the Devs: RP Server and Legacy Naming Credits

Hello, I'll get straight to the questions for this:

1.) Quite some time back Yoshi-P expressed interest in providing roleplayers with their own server in an interview. Since then I don't believe any information has been revealed on this matter. Is a RP server still in development or has this option been abandoned?

2.) One of the features for Legacy status was getting your name in the credits for A Realm Reborn. How will this work? Will it be our real names (The name registered in our Square Enix account), our chosen character name (If so do we get to choose which character name will be inserted into the credits) or our usernames? Will it show in the in-game credits or will it be on for example a separate insert in the packaging, or on the Final Fantasy XIV website?

EDIT: Note to make, I didn't notice the other thread asking about this until I looked down through the list. But in regards to that, Yoshi-P DID specifically say they were looking into adding a RP server in for a Realm Reborn, there certainly was no "I guarantee there will be one" thing said but that he wanted to add one in.

However since that interview (I haven't taken the time to look around for it but I do promise you it does exist in an interview somewhere.) I haven't seen or heard any information regarding their plans for one. So I am now asking in this thread for confirmation if they're still in consideration or if the plan has been abandoned.

Wierd I was just thinking about the 2nd question myself. My GUESS is that it will be about character names. It would be cool to use our real names though but my name is a common name but there aren't alot of cecil whites.. :)

There always a topic about this every few weeks we don't know how we put our name in the Credits. I guessing we know sometime near release.

Here be teh other thread on the rp thing: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Server-in-2.0

I try to bump it occasionally so that it may catch the eyes of the devs. I hope that it's seen as an important issue, there are a lot of people who would wish to transfer there, and another group who are vehemently against going to an RP server so it'd suck for everyone if they ended up someplace they didn't like D:

That being said; if the Servers have their name changed, how in teh blue snurble are they going to decide on a new rp server in such a short amount of time D: lol.

I hope that SE does come to a quick decision soon, they don't even have to give us the server name, just say that "Yes, we've labelled one of these servers as an RP hub"

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Originally Posted by Mihana

Hello, I'll get straight to the questions for this:

1.) Quite some time back Yoshi-P expressed interest in providing roleplayers with their own server in an interview. Since then I don't believe any information has been revealed on this matter. Is a RP server still in development or has this option been abandoned?

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The development team is currently looking into this!

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Originally Posted by Mihana

2.) One of the features for Legacy status was getting your name in the credits for A Realm Reborn. How will this work? Will it be our real names (The name registered in our Square Enix account), our chosen character name (If so do we get to choose which character name will be inserted into the credits) or our usernames? Will it show in the in-game credits or will it be on for example a separate insert in the packaging, or on the Final Fantasy XIV website?

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Here's how this will work:

We're planning to use an online registration form that will allow you to create an alias of your choice.

Players will be able to enter a first and last name, both of which can be up to 13 characters in length. The first letter of each must be capitalized, and no numbers or symbols will be permitted.

We're also thinking of allowing only first names as well. My name, for example, could be either Okipuit Ogre or just Okipuit.

Please be advised that there may be circumstances where certain names cannot be used, or we request that names are changed.

Once everything is ready we'll make an announcement here on the forum, so be sure to keep an eye out! :)

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

The development team is currently looking into this!



Here's how this will work:

We're planning to use an online registration form that will allow you to create an alias of your choice.

Players will be able to enter a first and last name, both of which can be up to 13 characters in length. The first letter of each must be capitalized, and no numbers or symbols will be permitted.

We're also thinking of allowing only first names as well. My name, for example, could be either Okipuit Ogre or just Okipuit.

Please be advised that there be may be circumstances where certain names cannot be used, or we request that names are changed.

Once everything is ready we'll make an announcement here on the forum, so be sure to keep an eye out! :)

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Awww Okpuuuit, I could just pet your horns!

Thank you Ogre <3

Very awesome! I think if that's how it will be then it's possible we can either choose to have either our birth names or our character names.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Here's how this will work:

We're planning to use an online registration form that will allow you to create an alias of your choice.

Players will be able to enter a first and last name, both of which can be up to 13 characters in length. The first letter of each must be capitalized, and no numbers or symbols will be permitted.

We're also thinking of allowing only first names as well. My name, for example, could be either Okipuit Ogre or just Okipuit.

Please be advised that there be may be circumstances where certain names cannot be used, or we request that names are changed.

Once everything is ready we'll make an announcement here on the forum, so be sure to keep an eye out! :)

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tagging in

Please please please devs,
remember that most rpers are already on Balmung. If you are going to designate any server it should be Balmung.

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Originally Posted by Dav

Please please please devs,
remember that most rpers are already on Balmung. If you are going to designate any server it should be Balmung.

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Server names may be changed with the release of 2.0, we don't know yet ;~; ; but with their decision to label one server RP, everyone who wishes to will be able to go there so you have nothing to worry about ;)

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Originally Posted by Nix

but with their decision to label one server RP, everyone who wishes to will be able to go there so you have nothing to worry about ;)

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Uhh not exactly. If they pick other server than Balmung, some RPs might want to stay on Balmung due to friendships they made. Which is why it would be best to stick with the same server~

Being a RPer myself, it would be very hard for me to decide to either stay on Balmung or move to the new official RP server. Many of my friends are not RPs and they prolly not wish to change the server. The concern around this matter is not something no needing to worry about actually.

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Originally Posted by Pancakes

Uhh not exactly. If they pick other server than Balmung, some RPs might want to stay on Balmung due to friendships they made. Which is why it would be best to stick with the same server~

Being a RPer myself, it would be very hard for me to decide to either stay on Balmung or move to the new official RP server. Many of my friends are not RPs and they prolly not wish to change the server. The concern around this matter is not something no needing to worry about actually.

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If they keep the Server names I'm pretty sure they'll keep Balmung as the RP server (since it's pretty widely known that that is where the biggest RP population is and has been since it was called 'Besaid' all those eons ago) ; but my point was that if they changed the server names completely, which is a possibility; then all the RPers would flock to the RP labelled server since there would be no 'Balmung'


It's going to get even more confusing picking where you want to go based on data center too, if you have a specific group of friends that you wanna stick with then drag them with you ;;

You'll have to forgive me but your last sentence made no sense to me whatsover><

I do forsee that with the data centers etc we'll see a huge turnaround of who-goes-where because a lot of people will want to play on a server with less ping; the Balmung you once knew may not be there anyways at launch D:

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Please be advised that there be may be circumstances where certain names cannot be used, or we request that names are changed.

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I am not a grammar freak.... but that looks like a grammar error there.

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Originally Posted by Sevokevo_Royuki

I am not a grammar freak.... but that looks like a grammar error there.

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I don't see anything wrong with it.

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Originally Posted by Nix

You'll have to forgive me but your last sentence made no sense to me whatsover><

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I just meant that there is something to worry about.

Note to self: Don't make too fancy sentences when english is not ur native language ;o

I was hoping for First Last + character name, but I'll take what I can get. It's still a pretty good honour I think to have our names put in. Forever part of the Final Fantasy name.

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Originally Posted by Pancakes

I just meant that there is something to worry about.

Note to self: Don't make too fancy sentences when english is not ur native language ;o

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Haha it's alright^^; your English is still better than some native speakers :p

Have a wonderful day! :)

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Originally Posted by Sevokevo_Royuki

I am not a grammar freak.... but that looks like a grammar error there.

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I don't see anything wrong with it.

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It's one of those things that are hard to catch unless you are reading in "editor mode". Here, read it again after I highlight one word:

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Please be advised that there be may be circumstances where certain names cannot be used, or we request that names are changed.

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Technically it's just an editing mistake by the poster, not a grammar/usage error.

Edit: Gah! I see it now. (Nobody's perfect.) :) :) The "are" should be "be", though it sounds awkward and should probably be rephrased.

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Originally Posted by ArkhamNative

It's one of those things that are hard to catch unless you are reading in "editor mode". Here, read it again after I highlight one word:



Technically it's just an editing mistake by the poster, not a grammar/usage error.

Edit: Gah! I see it now. (Nobody's perfect.) :) :) The "are" should be "be", though it sounds awkward and should probably be rephrased.

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Oh ok, I see it now but I understood what he was meaning. Mistakes happen though, no biggie. :D

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Originally Posted by Rahsch

Oh ok, I see it now but I understood what he was meaning. Mistakes happen though, no biggie. :D

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Yup.. :)

Got a message from him this morning on Twitter saying thanks for the good eye. :)

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

The development team is currently looking into this!



Here's how this will work:

We're planning to use an online registration form that will allow you to create an alias of your choice.

Players will be able to enter a first and last name, both of which can be up to 13 characters in length. The first letter of each must be capitalized, and no numbers or symbols will be permitted.

We're also thinking of allowing only first names as well. My name, for example, could be either Okipuit Ogre or just Okipuit.

Please be advised that there may be circumstances where certain names cannot be used, or we request that names are changed.

Once everything is ready we'll make an announcement here on the forum, so be sure to keep an eye out! :)

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{Hmmm.} Where have I seen this before? :rolleyes: And almost exact wording (save for names)! ;)

A RP server is still in the works! This is exciting news, indeed!

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

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I'm really against this because I enjoy RPers.

It's like with the server locations.

Anyone can join in any server, but we'll hardly see any japanese players making characters in an american one for example. So in the actual practice something like this only promotes segregation.

So what I'm getting to?
If you are making a RPing server to get RPers out of the way, you found the way.
But if you are making a RP server to make RPers a favor... don't.

Having a RP server will alienate normal players from joining it and will make a ghost world out of said server.

I rather have everyone mixed up! It was really fun to see RPers make the server more lively with their In-Character /says and /emotes.

So yes to RPers, no to an official server.

The RPing community isn't big, and you have to remember they are also gamers. So by putting a fence around them you're just dividing us into more sub-sectors.
First by latency, now by your hobby.

And I'm almost certain that there aren't enough role players to fill up / merit a server in XIV.

What an official RP server will cause is this:
Players will make two characters. One in their normal server, one in the RPing server. They will only log to the second one when their RP session is in progress.
Players who only have one character in the RPing server will be in a world with an active population that doesn't even reach one hundred.

Take a look at the EU server. Its just one server and not even EUs want to be in it.

Great news! \o/

Would be cool if there'd be a RP tagged server, so I'll know where to go to stalk on Nix >:]

Also YAY for the form concerning our names in the credits!

I disagree that designating a server as RP will keep regular players away. That has never been the case in any mmorpg that I've ever played where there was an officially designated RP server.

There are more than a few "normal" players who look for RP servers to make their home because the server communities are often better than regular PVE servers.

Labeling a server as "RP" also helps RPers find other people that are interested in RP and often have naming policies where names that break lore are not allowed (i.e. names like l337 warri0r or other nonsense that doesn't fit with the world.)

Haha Coris, I'll be avoiding the RP server with my main! I'll totally let you know where I'm headed though, maybe we will end up in the same place, who knows? XD /stalk /stalk /stalk

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Originally Posted by Robobandit

I disagree that designating a server as RP will keep regular players away. That has never been the case in any mmorpg that I've ever played where there was an officially designated RP server.

There are more than a few "normal" players who look for RP servers to make their home because the server communities are often better than regular PVE servers.

Labeling a server as "RP" also helps RPers find other people that are interested in RP and often have naming policies where names that break lore are not allowed (i.e. names like l337 warri0r or other nonsense that doesn't fit with the world.)

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Pretty much this;
Hell when XIV first started up, Besaid was listed by the community as the unofficial RP server there was no segregation; it was just a hub that RPers could go to.

With the labeling of the RP server this will be no different, except that this time it's officially labelled instead of community labelled. RPers will know that there will be a higher concentration of players there but they're also free to go anywhere they want, same as before.

Nothing will change except that one of the Servers will have an official RP label instead of a community label :p

Have an awesome day guys!

I know many players on Balmung that are not roleplayers but they picked that server because they like RP to happen around them or because RPs are said to be friendly community. RP label should actually help the server because even if it'll be full there will always be RP players wanting to join in~
And y on earth would anyone create a seprate char on non RP server? This server would be exactly the same as any other just with that extra RP community. Ragnarok is a different case. Many ppl didn't transfer there because they prefer international server (as it was in 1.0) over EU only. With 2.0 and regional servers the ratio is going to change, I'm sure. "RP" doesn't mean "I won't have anyone to play with so Im not going there".

Whats so special of being in a tole player server? Do they talk in ancient english or something?

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Originally Posted by elreed

Whats so special of being in a tole player server? Do they talk in ancient english or something?

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Haha some do! But honestly it just means that there are a lot of people who like to role play there.

It's hard for them to have fun doing so on a regular server because they face a lot of spite from other players who don't think that roleplaying is acceptable even though it's perfectly harmless fun.

Having a designated roleplay server just means that they'll be able to roleplay in peace on that server; there will be no added boons or whatnot for playing there.... unless you count the peace of mind that you can roleplay freely and without hindrance.

I'm glad to hear that they are looking into the possibility of a RP server! :)

And I am not worried about a server being designated as RP driving non-RP'ers away. Interesting tidbits:

- SW:TOR's busiest server is a designated RP server (by a narrow margin, but still).

- One of the most populated, active servers in GW2 is the US (unofficial) RP server. People guest there a lot and it is known as one of the "best" servers.

I post these examples to illustrate the point that a RP server won't lead to everyone but RP'ers avoiding it like the plague. From what I have noticed, a lot of non-RP'ers join RP servers for the community. ^^

Now I have a question for the Team.. If they introduce a RP-server.... Will be 2 (new and old player)? Or just 1 (old player)?

I really hope they don't split the community even more D:

Nothing stops new players to join an old server. I don't see a reason y they would make 2 separate ones. I just hope it'll be actually one of the old servers and not a new one since old players can't transfer to new servers.

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Originally Posted by Pancakes

Nothing stops new players to join an old server. I don't see a reason y they would make 2 separate ones. I just hope it'll be actually one of the old servers and not a new one since old players can't transfer to new servers.

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Yes I hope it too but like new and old servers for new and old player... i'm afraid that they'll do this even for the RP server :(

What just came to my mind is, if there also will be a RP server for each datacenter? o.o

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Originally Posted by Coris

What just came to my mind is, if there also will be a RP server for each datacenter? o.o

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MIND BLOWN

http://meremortalblog.files.wordpres...lown.jpg?w=412



3 RP server... for 2 Type of player... 6 RP server......... Splitting community for the win!! /o/


Really hope NO. Just 1 international server =^w^=

That really would split everything up :/

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Originally Posted by Momita

MIND BLOWN
3 RP server... for 2 Type of player... 6 RP server......... Splitting community for the win!! /o/
Really hope NO. Just 1 international server =^w^=

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That's just the same general argument against regional datacenters, except splitting them further into RP-labeled ones.

SE hasn't announced anything, other than saying they're waiting to finalize plans and announce around Phase 3, possibly after seeing how many of all v1 characters decide to move to different regions or servers for launch.

Most known info was covered in this dev thread: Current Plans for World Transfers

this bring my memory back to around jan. 26, 2013, I read a part (not in English) listed inside "The things newbie need to know, read here first". #6: translation is like:

"Besides Chinese server (there is a Chinese company purchased the license) will be in China only, all the rest are linked to Japan. No segregation between nations."

So, I asked the owner... "Isn't the Data 'servers' will have NA server, EU server, JP server?" exactly word.
He replied to me, "This is the first time I heard this!"
"I just asked the people in the forum, they said SE is only put 'data center' in each regions, but the final data will be sent to 'servers' in Japan."

That's what I thought initially when I see the data center news... however after so many NA forum threads... I went to other way (NA server, EU server, etc.)
I'm still confused.

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Originally Posted by Deli

I'm still confused.

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It may just mean that we won't be able to play cross-server ("duty finder"?) with China.

It would probably be veryVERYvery expensive for SE to buy two private mega-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency networks from London and Los Angeles to Tokyo to carry all gamer traffic.

oh no Chinese due to their law, I think they have to have the server in China, so the internet police can screen all the conversation and contents. However, SE want to have the international servers... so that's why Chinese get their own Simplified Chinese version (ARR translation 80% done, and I think SE translated for them) and individual server like in WoW I think...

I digged more into the data center... this is what I found:

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida
I wanted to provide more details on how the servers will work because when I briefly explained about data centers it looks like there were a lot of players that had questions about it.

What's going to happen is a player will be shown a complete list of worlds. Within the list, players will see which worlds are tied to which data centers (i.e. this world and this world is tied to the data center in Japan, this world and this world is tied to the data center in North America or Europe). Players will have the freedom of selecting any world they prefer.

This means that they can select a world that’s in the data center in their own region or they can select a world that's based off of one in another region. For example, I would choose a world based in Japan because the data centers are physically closer to me. On the other hand, a North American or European player may choose a world based off of their data center centers to keep the lag to a minimum.

So let me make it clear that we're not separating the worlds by language. For those who want to play with players outside of their region, they will have the choice of selecting a world that's located in another region. Also, through the content finder, you will be able to select a language preference so for those who only wish to play with players that speak the same language, all they have to do is set the language preference to the language of their liking.

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I think what it says indeed, NA has NA servers; JP has JP servers. Otherwise, he didn't need to explain "For those who want to play with players outside of their region, ..." part at paragraph 4.

so.. ya...

and... maybe the forum ppl mean: "the final data for NA data centers will still go to Japan"