Can we have a server merger after fee take place ?

[Biggs]

I would just like to add that with the implemantation of charges, this topic should no longer be considered a suggestion by SE. IF enough people want this, they need to do it. I am not gonna pay any amount of money to play an MMO ( no matter how good it is or who makes it) if the world I am playing on is empty. If this request seems to difficult for their 12 man team to handle themselves, then open it up and let us at least switch servers on our own at no charge. We could then talk with each other via the forums to figure out which servers we want to migrate to for higher populations. Also, how about you all finally release some actual numbers that show how many active accounts are on each server? I fell like, with you charging us to play this soon SE, its genuinely the very least you could do.

[Biggs]

It's fated to happen. They probably are just waiting the billing start to have an idea of the size of the issue. Makes no sense thinking about it now since population might change drastically after billing start.



"Ignorance is a blessing." Happiness and knowledge often walk in the opposite direction...here included. The only ones thinking the game is great are the ones who have no idea what they talking about or are blind by their fanboysm...

I like chess but some people really hate playing it, does that then mean that I am just a fanboy of chess and it actually really sucks? Deciding for people what they should like or don't like is the height of ignorance. Well done.

[Jennestia]

The damage in the media is already done. That ship has sailed.

The ship as you say, may have sailed but unless I've missed a memo the media isn't stagnant they can easily influence people long after the fact, this is why things like hype exists, because it something that will happen long after an initial outlet gives info.

You really can't say for a second that there will be no negative reactions toward SE and FFXIV if sites like Gamespot or other major gaming websites announces that SE is merging XIV servers right as they start charging, I believe the saying is "kicking a dog while it's down" -- It is entirely possible to make matters worse, which it seems people who are in support of this don't realize it has a double sided effect.

[weeble]

I would just like to add that with the implemantation of charges, this topic should no longer be considered a suggestion by SE. IF enough people want this, they need to do it. I am not gonna pay any amount of money to play an MMO ( no matter how good it is or who makes it) if the world I am playing on is empty. If this request seems to difficult for their 12 man team to handle themselves, then open it up and let us at least switch servers on our own at no charge. We could then talk with each other via the forums to figure out which servers we want to migrate to for higher populations. Also, how about you all finally release some actual numbers that show how many active accounts are on each server? I fell like, with you charging us to play this soon SE, its genuinely the very least you could do.

<<<this, my biggest concern even if i had just grinding crafts and classes all day long to do only and no content other then is having a full server. i want my zones packed like the dunes in ffxi. give us 2-3k populated servers or stop trying to charge people. i can have fun just grinding if they got rid of pl'ing and added a high pop easily. till then not even close to taking my money.

[darkstarpoet1]

yeah, the reports will be so much different if they put out someone to test the servers and realize that there is nobody on those servers that are open. you have media blow back either way. either way you go you have issues with the media. either you show them you are shutting down a few servers and they talk about it or you have people playing on empty servers and they talk about it. neither way is a good option.

at least with merging servers they can use the pr move and state they are merging because version 2.0 will have regional servers, language specific servers, new player only servers, and other options. there is an easy way to explain why the servers are merged, but no explanation would state why they weren't merged and people were having to pay to play on empty servers.

[weeble]

yeah this kinda happen to us in warhammer. our server was the emptiest. our guild ended up making a video of us all running zone to zone on the most populated times of the day and then he sent it to warhammer people saying he would send it to media if not merge our server with another. i think was like a week or 2 before they merged us.

merging is bad but it happens, it's way worse keeping them empty. put us together then open up transfers later, it will show later how much more people there are that they need to open more either way. and like darkstarpoet said, they are planning on giving us multiple types of servers so either way we get to transfer to our choice of server later.

only reason i see not doing this is ...they think the servers can't even hold us ....
but but gimmies some monies pweeze.

[Rentahamster]

I think it's much worse to hear reports from players over the course of 2012 that the FFXIV servers are so dead

Yep.

If I hear that the servers are dead, then that is a truly negative angle with no positive spin.

If I hear that there's a server merge, then while there is the stigma of "lol server merge" the damage from the initial botched launch is already done and "lol server merge" isn't going to make it significantly worse. If anything, there's the sense that SE is actively concerned with improving the play experience for those players who choose to stay.

[Jennestia]

If anything, there's the sense that SE is actively concerned with improving the play experience for those players who choose to stay.

I'm pretty sure merging servers isn't the only way to display this, unless I've been imagining the fact they're continuing to patch this version while working on a new client.

[Rentahamster]

I'm pretty sure merging servers isn't the only way to display this, unless I've been imagining the fact they're continuing to patch this version while working on a new client.

Of course it's not the only way. Nowhere in my post did I even imply that it was.

My previous post only had to do with public perception of a server merge vs. public perception of no server merge.

Overall customer satisfaction based on their combined efforts is a totally different subject.

[darkstarpoet1]

Of course it's not the only way. Nowhere in my post did I even imply that it was.

My previous post only had to do with public perception of a server merge vs. public perception of no server merge.

Overall customer satisfaction based on their combined efforts is a totally different subject.

it's not going to matter what reason you give. some people just don't want to understand nor realize that a merge is needed at this point.

it won't be needed after 2.0, which is a year from now, but that's a long time playing a massive multiplayer game that has nobody else in the server playing with you and being expected to pay to do so.