They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Elleia]

This is awful. Myself and one other static member are on Coeurl, and another is on Zalera. But the rest are on Sarg, Faerie and Adamantoise. So some of us are going to have to leave behind our FCs and houses just to keep the static together.

[Soupa]

I knew something like this would happen one day. I usually didn't make friends across servers as a result of being a veteran of lots of MMOs that ended up server merging and shuffling. Those of you who have close friends cross server and are losing them, I feel your pain.

[Jybril]

Hmm, well here's my thoughts:
Personally: Not affected, I'm from Balmung so my best friend from Goblin is still with me.
My boyfriends character who's like level 7, is in Gilgamesh but he said he'd move over to me
once Balmung is open...someday. My friends that went Mateus is still with me so I'm okay there.
I'm not surprised Balmung and Gilgamesh went ahead and split. Aether two of the biggest servers and Mateus incoming.


Balmung people: We just lost our raider friends (seeing as Gilgamesh was the biggest raid server)
so that sucks. Mateus is still with us so the RP side is still okay.

As a whole: People either are screwed static wise, friend wise and other stuff.
I hope people take the time now to decide their course of action until then. :/
Kinda sucks it had to happen.

[Starflake]

O12 Clears per Server:
Chaos:221
Cerb:70
Louisaisuuax: 8
FrenchServer: 28
Omega: 7
Ragna: 108
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Light:186
Lich: 12
Odin: 57
Phoenix: 54
Shiva: 41
Zodiark: 22

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Odin would rank fourth in Chaos for O12S clears. Great distribution. SE showing once again they are clueless. Also crafters will migrate to heavy raiding datacentres. Seems like SE really thought this through. Shocking stuff. Inexcusable.

[HyoMinPark]

And thats right back the the original problem.

People seeing certain servers as bad.

How about fostering new communities on these datacenters instead of all transferring off. That makes it a self fulfilling prophecy.

It’s a bit difficult to foster a raiding community with the 10% left on Crystal when 90% of it is on Aether.

[Rokke]

And thats right back the the original problem.

People seeing certain servers as bad.

How about fostering new communities on these datacenters instead of all transferring off. That makes it a self fulfilling prophecy.

“Fostering” a community means putting up with a ghost town and hoping it’ll pay off in the end. Crystal is going to start with a nonexistent raid scene and a handful of dead servers.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

And thats right back the the original problem.

People seeing certain servers as bad.

How about fostering new communities on these datacenters instead of all transferring off. That makes it a self fulfilling prophecy.

Because fostering a new community is incredibly difficult and time consuming. People who want to raid, want to be apart of a existing community. They don't necessarily want to have to scratch. Unlike the issues with Balmung, where you could at least play with people who stayed if elected to move to Mateus. This is forcing people to choose between their statics or their friends. A handful of friends of mine literally have to start over or lose friends. And how you're saying "Go foster a new community!"

How about SE not be incompetent? This self fulfilling prophecy is on SE, not the community.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It’s a bit difficult to foster a raiding community with the 10% left on Crystal when 90% of it is on Aether.

Seems like a player caused issue to me.

[SunAurel]

I'd rather have another Rocky Expansion Launch and have a nice Pool of Players to raid/do Content with in the following two years than this.

[alimdia]

And thats right back the the original problem.

People seeing certain servers as bad.

How about fostering new communities on these datacenters instead of all transferring off. That makes it a self fulfilling prophecy.

In a perfect world everyone will do as you say, this is not said perfect world. Many servers saw mass transfers during the first half of heavensward due to raids, people aren't gonna stick around to create a new raid community in Crystal, they will move to where Gilgamesh or Leviathan are.