Can we have a server merger after fee take place ?

[darkstarpoet1]

Leaving things as is will only cause MORE people to leave because on those smaller servers, nobody is playing, and that will cut into what little money they are already making by switching to a sub model. So yes, a server merge is necessary, and it will be incredibly shortsighted of Square to leave things as is if they used your train of thought.

here's even another way to add to the top of a good reason to merge servers. my linkshell is likely to disband after the merge because they are all discussing taking a 6 month break after we defeat moogle. they are discussing it because the server we play on is completely dead. they are hoping in 6 months the population will build back up some with the new content being introduced.

the good reason to merge is because those 30 people that are active daily would not be considering leaving the game if we had a population to play with. it's not just one shell that will be leaving as we have spoken to most shells in our server because it is small and most are leaving. even if half of the people that were talking about leaving stayed if the server had a merge that is half that is saved and more money coming into their subs.

they also want to know what kinds of support they have from the community. if only half leave the dead severs because of nobody playing the game that tells se incorrectly they do not like the game enough to play. that is not the case. alot of us like the game and would be glad to pay, but it's no fun to play a multi player game on a dead server without other people.

[Rentahamster]

a lot of us like the game and would be glad to pay, but it's no fun to play a multi player game on a dead server without other people.

Indeed.

Most of the people who are playing now quite like the game despite its flaws.

The introduction of payments will inevitably give some of those people a reason to quit.

The subsequent drop in population without any server merge or world transfer options will then just give the remaining players yet another reason to quit.

The causation path seems pretty clear here.