Stormblood = Nightmare for casual players

[KitiaraIornsight]

ESO is 0 $ a month and yet it features region wide megaservers. With sharding (a technology that wasn't available 14 years ago) it is possible. Also, lack of platform wide servers on this game is due to the consoles builder policies (especially on microsoft's side).

ESO is no where NEAR as popular of a game. Not only that it is pay to win. You cannot compare free to play (aka pay to win) games to a sub based game.

[LunaFaye]

Transfer is not a solution!

Complaining on the other hand seems to be a much better solution!

[Avitra]

Complaining on the other hand seems to be a much better solution!

Apparently!

Balmung is a popular server. If you had to pay to transfer in, then you'd know this. So..transfer out, least it won't cost anything.

[Hyperia]

Apparently!

Balmung is a popular server. If you had to pay to transfer in, then you'd know this. So..transfer out, least it won't cost anything.

This! My server only had 9 people waiting and that took a whole of 60 seconds to get past.

[Natashio]

I just xfered to Balmung awhile ago..from Mateus( really wish i didn't ).
But you have to keep in mind the major downside to lower pop servers such as Mateus, as a dps, had HORRENDOUSLY LONG INSTANCE Q TIMES.

Why oh why do people keep saying this. Your long queue as DPS is NOT because you were on Mateus or a low pop server.... You're long queue is because you're competing for a slot among the 13 servers in the Aether data center.

On topic...yeap, just another Balmung "I can't get to play cause queue thread."

[Gyson]

I feel like everyone who sees changing servers as a viable solution must have absolutely nothing appealing (friends, guild, linkshell, housing, whatever) linking them to their current server. I simply can't imagine being so unattached to anything about the MMO I'm playing that I would be ready to play it just anywhere, at anytime, with zero care as to any bonds or attachments I've formed. Once you've removed those from the equations.. why even bother with an MMO when there are so many better non-MMO RPG's to be playing? Apparently yourself and the gameplay are the only sources of joy and entertainment you require in your RPG experience.

[KitiaraIornsight]

text won't all fit

Cross world duty finder parties, voice chats, and the ability to keep basically ALL YOUR GIL to purchase a house in a new server (of which there are shockingly houses coming available all the time on Famfrit, plus a WHOLE NEW housing district in the next patch) and oh, you could organize for all your friends to move. there are 4 empty lots in my housing district TODAY. So housing is a cop out. Friends can follow if they are really friends. Or you could voice chat and cross world party with them if they absolutely can't move. Those refusing to move are being stubborn.

[Yahallo]

I just xfered to Balmung awhile ago..from Mateus( really wish i didn't ).
But you have to keep in mind the major downside to lower pop servers such as Mateus, as a dps, had HORRENDOUSLY LONG INSTANCE Q TIMES.
So i can see why, one would not want to Xfer off of such an OP server.

---Or am i being a noob(just came back to FFXIV recently) and the Duty finder searches across all the servers for party members?

The Duty Finder searches across all servers within the datacenter.

So say we had a player named Greg on the Gilgamesh Server and a player named Sigurd on the Balmung Server; both Greg and Sigurd would be able to queue into the same instance and potentially meet each other. Now let's say Greg is a Bard and Sigurd is a Paladin; Greg will generally experience much longer Duty Finder Queues while Sigurd will experience shorter, potentially instant, queue times. This is due to the number of DPS players vs Tank or Healers; it also probably doesn't help that there are more DPS jobs than there are Tank and Healer jobs combined. There are just not enough Tanks and Healers to go around for all of the DPS's. As far as I can remember, Duty Finder has always pulled players from all servers on a datacenter back from when it was introduced during ARR CBT.

Now with Cross-World Party Finder, there really isn't a reason to play on a high population server in terms of finding people to complete an instance.

[Gyson]

Cross world duty finder parties, voice chats, and the ability to keep basically ALL YOUR GIL to purchase a house in a new server (of which there are shockingly houses coming available all the time on Famfrit, plus a WHOLE NEW housing district in the next patch) and oh, you could organize for all your friends to move. there are 4 empty lots in my housing district TODAY. So housing is a cop out. Friends can follow if they are really friends. Or you could voice chat and cross world party with them if they absolutely can't move. Those refusing to move are being stubborn.

You are seriously downplaying the sacrifices you're suggesting (with the understanding that we are ultimately talking about gaming and first-world problems here). "Organize for all your friends to move"? Seriously? And what about their friends? Do I organize their moves as well? And their friends' friends? Also, "Friends can follow if they are really friends"? So now I'm asking my friends to choose between me and everything else that matters to them in the MMO? I would have to be a pretty lousy friend to be placing them in that position.

I also don't want to just hop on voice chat with friends while we each play our own game, I would prefer to actually be playing the same game with them. It's a friend-thing.

Even your claim that housing is a "cop out" reads as ridiculous. Can you guarantee that people will be able to get new homes in precisely the same locations they had? Perhaps you either don't realize or appreciate the efforts some people went through to get specific plots, but that was a thing whether it mattered to you or not.

What you call "stubborn", I call "invested". Apparently you aren't and that's fine - for you moving would be a viable option. But for others it simply isn't, so maybe folks should stop insisting it is one.

[KitiaraIornsight]

Then don't cry when se forced a server split to a super low pop server. They've done it before.