Why won't SE merge the servers due to few people playing the game?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Wait, there's no people on the servers? you coulda fooled me....

[Abriael]

Wait, there's no people on the servers? you coulda fooled me....

This. Servers have plenty population still, and more people come back with every patch. With the PS3 version coming up in the future it'd be silly to operate merges just to have to open new ones then (creating a server divide between PC and PS3 players as a result).

Talking about a "gap" between PC and PS3 players doesn't make sense. There will always be people higher level than you in MMORPGs, and nothing in FFXIV determines that being lower level is a sizable disadvantage. You do your thing, higher level players do theirs.

Simply put optimism isn't misplaced. FFXIV has plenty chances to pick up, and there's absolutely no reason to doperate server merges before those chances are spent.

[viion]

This. Servers have plenty population still, and more people come back with every patch. With the PS3 version coming up in the future it'd be silly to operate merges just to have to open new ones then (creating a server divide between PC and PS3 players as a result).

Simply put optimism isn't misplaced. FFXIV has plenty chances to pick up, and there's absolutely no reason to doperate server merges before those chances are spent.

Saying "people come back with every patch" is not very good fact to base your numbers on because i can garauntee you just as much leave at the same time. For example the amount of people pissed off with mini quests probably sparked the same amount to leave.

Also you have a spike of people trying out the patch, then realising its rubbish and theres still no content and off they go and quit again.

[Abriael]

Saying "people come back with every patch" is not very good fact to base your numbers on because i can garauntee you just as much leave at the same time. For example the amount of people pissed off with mini quests probably sparked the same amount to leave.

Also you have a spike of people trying out the patch, then realising its rubbish and theres still no content and off they go and quit again.

I base my facts on what I see. And what I see is that there's a lot of people online. I have no problem finding parties or repairs, or any other thing that needs collaboration, and that at every patch i see people I know coming back, and they tend to stay.

Also, the way the game is designed helps people gather at hubs, mitigating any population "problem", real or perceived.

Finally. SE didn't do the same error many did (and are still doing) going overboard with the number of servers at launch (because some people whined that they had to wait in line 5 minutes the day after launch), so the problem isn't really urgent.

What you say would have some degree of logic if the patches were really "rubbish". Fact is that they aren't.

[Rydin]

Saying "people come back with every patch" is not very good fact to base your numbers on because i can garauntee you just as much leave at the same time. For example the amount of people pissed off with mini quests probably sparked the same amount to leave.

Also you have a spike of people trying out the patch, then realising its rubbish and theres still no content and off they go and quit again.

that just means the game would be horribly unplayable right after every patch....

[MBlaster]

I think the best solution is like what happened with the first online FF(World Pass?). I never used it because all my friends were already in my server but it's something to consider!!