Say yes to Cross-world group finder

[Verecund]

Pasting over from the other thread:

'My main concern with any cross-realms instancing is that it really dilutes the communities of individual servers by putting them in to a sort've global pseudo-community (anyone who played WoW can attest to this). The same effect will probably happen if implemented to FFXIV, though most likely due to a lesser effect since it has no PvP or end-game 'raiding' [at current] (which were pretty much the staples of in-game communal growth for WoW, from my PoV... cross-realming for PvP anonymized a close-knit, competitive community, and cross-realming for dungeons did certainly encourage ninjas and morons, though I don't think this game will have a huge problem with that given the general community).

The one perk is that it makes things more accessible for dying servers by pooling all the populations into a cross-realms instance queue. Hopefully it doesn't come to that months down the road, after subscriptions are implemented

Edit - We should really wait and see on this one I think. At current, almost every "party" I've seen in the search queue has been someone advertising for an LS in Japanese... but if the population issues are ameliorated after a strong PS3 launch, they won't have to implement cross-realms features because of this sort of thing. Also, I think this game is in desperate need of an in-game LS advertisement channel =3 '

TL;DR - L2read

[Kaedan]

I really wouldn't worry about them implementing this horrible idea.

They used the language, "we are investigating the possibility" (from the Japanese post)... which is the kind of wording that they have used in the past for things they have no intention of actually implementing. I'm sure this statement was made just to placate the more rabid minority that is vocal about this issue.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Like I said before there really isn't much of a community on FFXIV atm.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Actually Kaedan everything that they have said that on so far as been implemented or is going to be implemented. That is a loose translation.

[Cendres]

I really wouldn't worry about them implementing this horrible idea.

They used the language, "we are investigating the possibility" (from the Japanese post)... which is the kind of wording that they have used in the past for things they have no intention of actually implementing. I'm sure this statement was made just to placate the more rabid minority that is vocal about this issue.

OR more likely they are saying it because they are seriously throwing that ball around and wanted to see what we would say.

[Kaedan]

Actually Kaedan everything that they have said that on so far as been implemented or is going to be implemented. That is a loose translation.

Wrong. I speak Japanese and they used the exact same language when talking about "investigating adding Jump". Sorry... it's probably not going to be implemented, just like Jump.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Kaedan man, you ain't got to lie to make friends.

[Verecund]

Wow. He just f**king went there.

[Jinko]

Instead of just saying no, I think the people against cross-server grouping should list ideas to make it better or less "destructive" to the community. I think that's a more constructive idea.

You should know by now that people on these forums are anything but constructive.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Wrong. I speak Japanese and they used the exact same language when talking about "investigating adding Jump". Sorry... it's probably not going to be implemented, just like Jump.

Also like your death penalty....oh snap. Anyway I'm just making a joke, continue with the topic at hand.