They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[LastFireAce]

/patpat Poor Diabolos... they should have been group with Leviathan or Gilgamesh.

[Ilan]

Sounds like a lot of problems that free server transfers will help with. You could see it in a glass-half-full light as an opportunity to consolidate all of those people you care about onto one central server. You've plenty of months to feel out your network and figure out which friends and friends of friends are going where. Unless, you know, digital realestate is more important to you than those friendships you lauded so enthusiastically. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And again the thing with giving up one thing or the other. You don't get it that people don't want to do that right? But yeah there are always people who defend the stuff SE does as long as it doesn't rub them the wrong way.

[Tsukino]

Oh i;m not complaining. I am just making a statement as to why im not as bothered by all this.

I didn't say you were, but I might have written that post poorly.

[Jybril]

I would advise those who enjoy PvE/Raiding to run to Aether.
Crystal is obviously the RP center with a few low pop servers.
They seem to balance the problem with normal dungeons
but raiding and static grouping may prove to be the biggest issues.

I'm not sure about Primal, I don't hear anything about any of those servers
minus Leviathan being pretty populated? But that was years ago.

We have a lot of time to decide though. So I do hope people find a way.
This is kind of a big deal.

[Aramina]

And again the thing with giving up one thing or the other. You don't get it that people don't want to do that right? But yeah there are always people who defend the stuff SE does as long as it doesn't rub them the wrong way.

I don't mean this to sound harsh, and I really feel bad for those that have to choose, but.... That's too bad (again, I know that sounds negative, it's not intended that way, just can't think of a better way to express it). Something needed to be done and this is what they have decided this is the best/easiest/whatever to go about it. I get that people don't want to choose... but, that's not an option. They made it pretty clear that complaining about it is futile. We would be better served spending our time trying to congregate as many people as we could somewhere that would be the most convenient for the most people of our particular group.

[Dirwen]

I don't mean this to sound harsh, and I really feel bad for those that have to choose, but.... That's too bad (again, I know that sounds negative, it's not intended that way, just can't think of a better way to express it). Something needed to be done and this is what they have decided this is the best/easiest/whatever to go about it. I get that people don't want to choose... but, that's not an option.

Is it bad to think that I'm looking forward to the chaos this will cause? At least it's a change and I'm all for change. Will be painful for most but change always is. Nothing lasts forever.

[Zainy]

I don't mean this to sound harsh, and I really feel bad for those that have to choose, but.... That's too bad (again, I know that sounds negative, it's not intended that way, just can't think of a better way to express it). Something needed to be done and this is what they have decided this is the best/easiest/whatever to go about it. I get that people don't want to choose... but, that's not an option. They made it pretty clear that complaining about it is futile. We would be better served spending I time trying to congregate as many people as we could somewhere that would be the most convenient for the most people of our particular group.

Not to parrot what I've been saying in my own thread, but they really should do this a week or two before 5.0, not in the middle of a raid tier where people have established statics and groups working on clears.

I am willing to look for new recruits on the expansion as much as I hate to do it, it's a lot easier to recruit people at the start of a raid tier instead of in the middle of it.

[Roda]

I would advise those who enjoy PvE/Raiding to run to Aether.
Crystal is obviously the RP center with a few low pop servers.
They seem to balance the problem with normal dungeons
but raiding and static grouping may prove to be the biggest issues.

I'm not sure about Primal, I don't hear anything about any of those servers
minus Leviathan being pretty populated? But that was years ago.

We have a lot of time to decide though. So I do hope people find a way.
This is kind of a big deal.

ok i dont like this regrouping as much as the next person, but come on =.= every one of my statics have been based primarily in balmung with a reasonable ratio of balmung, mateus, and goblin in queues and pfs.
Community apocalypse? Sure.
PvE apocalypse? Nah.

[RokkuEkkusu]

I would advise those who enjoy PvE/Raiding to run to Aether.
Crystal is obviously the RP center with a few low pop servers.
They seem to balance the problem with normal dungeons
but raiding and static grouping may prove to be the biggest issues.

I'm not sure about Primal, I don't hear anything about any of those servers
minus Leviathan being pretty populated? But that was years ago.

Primal will still have a decent raiding population overall once the shuffle occurs. Servers such as Behemoth, Leviathan, and Excalibur come to mind. Probably Hyperion as well.

[ElainaMason]

I don't mean this to sound harsh, and I really feel bad for those that have to choose, but.... That's too bad (again, I know that sounds negative, it's not intended that way, just can't think of a better way to express it). Something needed to be done and this is what they have decided this is the best/easiest/whatever to go about it. I get that people don't want to choose... but, that's not an option. They made it pretty clear that complaining about it is futile. We would be better served spending our time trying to congregate as many people as we could somewhere that would be the most convenient for the most people of our particular group.

But it is not only the choosing.. It is the EU Servers population. Right now its difficult to find people for some stuff or even find new people for a static. How should this work if population ist splitted in two parts?
EU doesn't really need new servers. Yes, people will come back for 5.0 but many of them will leave as fast as they came back as it is always happening.