Any Korean or Chinese readers here that can shed some light on their FFXIV versions?

[skyfox]

I am a Korean player on global server (JP) and I was told there was a lot of issue while merging servers.
Apparently, it's their 2nd server merging, since Feb 2016 and They merged 6 servers (Sabotender/Leviathan/Odin/Behemoth/Shiva/Ultima) into 3 (Carbuncle/Chocobo/Moogle). They did not create a new server but rather they just renamed the existing major server and add a minority server on top of it. Quite obviously, they ran into two issue, Character Name (in Korean letter) and housing area.





According to detailed information, FF14 system only support up to 36 wards [Max] for personal housing system due to their system restriction (PS3 limitation perhaps?) and they could not fit all 24 wards from each server into one. Those player who were in ward number greater than 18 lost their property upon merging. They said they compensated in Gil but obviously that did not take all the housing item + airship into consideration when they calculated compensation amount in Gil. This also lead to huge inflation in economy and encouraged RMT and it wasn't too difficult to find a house in online auction site in Korea. Apparently Large house in Mist was listed on auction went up to US$550.

REF: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=170530