About Global Servers / グローバルサーバーについて

[Wynn]

If there are language specific servers and most of the Japanese move out I'll be very disappointed. I love meeting Japanese people and partying with them.. practicing and learning more Japanese. It will just be a huge huge disappointment.
Sometimes the only groups I can find are Japanese because I'm nocturnal, even though I'm in Canada (EST). ._.

Something else I'm wondering though... is what the heck happens to our current server groups? Besaid is the unofficial RP server.. I'd like to stick with them. I wanna know.. will there even be a Besaid after the move? If not... I wonder where people will go. SE splitting up whole servers (and linkshells) seems messed up. Perhaps all the current servers will stay "global"? And there will be an option to move to language specific/region specific servers.

It would be bad enough if the Japanese leave us, I don't want to think about current servers being thrown all over the place.

I have a feeling the server names aren't going to change and they will just mass move our server data to a new one.

[Nabiri]

I have a feeling the server names aren't going to change and they will just mass move our server data to a new one.

I hope you're right about that. Seems most likely.

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For people like me, who often play on Japanese time and might end up having a hard time finding groups if they leave, I wonder if SE's soloution would be "cross-server dungeon finder." T_T
Something I don't really intend to use. I want to party with and make friends with people on my server, not people I'll never see again.

[Antipika]

I have a feeling the server names aren't going to change and they will just mass move our server data to a new one.

Depends the global population at that time anyway. I am pretty certain that SE will use version 2.0 to consolidate servers. If the population do not raise by a significant amount, do not expect to keep 18 Worlds + localized Worlds. Especially if a lot of JP players (or even French/German players) move on to dedicated localized servers.

Some players just want to move for a simple reason, timezone. Surely that is barely an issue for NA/JP players if they play during their timezone prime time, but that can be really problematic for EU players on a World where the EU population is low. I won't even mention FR/DE players unable to speak English/Japanese. They are unable to communicate with 95% of their server, or even more. May ruin the "MMO experience" for some of them.

{Auto-Translate} have its limit. I personally like to talk "just about everything" with people I am playing with. Luckily I do speak English so I'm fine, but if I didn't and could only speak French or German, I would most likely move to a localized server. Not because I don't like others, but just because I want to be able to fully communicate with others. (= more than 5% of my server population).