They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Aramina]

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.

Oh I don't disagree with you, though I would imagine that they are doing it beforehand to work out any kinks so I can see why they are opting to do that. My post was more to those "This sucks I shouldn't be forced to <insert whatever>." and in a perfect world no one ever would have to choose between anything ever.... but unfortunately that perfect world doesn't exist (even in games).

[Tempest222]

My characters aren't switching data centers, and I'm not personally attached to any specific other world's in the cluster so I guess I'm fine. I'm just worried queue times are going to be even more horrendous than usual since they are cutting data center populations significantly... I assume they are not implementing cross data center duty/party finder so I'm a little worried.

[SoleilAlphi]

genuine question here, for the people affected. I haven't seen a post from anybody saying that a solution is making an alt on the other datacenter to stay in contact. Why making an alt is not an option? With an alt, you can stay in touch, you can rejoin the statics leveling it up. I think it is worth it, if I really wanted to keep contact, and leveling an alt is pretty fast in this game

[Aramina]

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.

That's a completely different argument. If there is (or will be) a major disparity on content clears or queues or what have you then that should definitely be addressed.

[Nalien]

This is the single worst news I could imagine... Literally just deleted any hype (which was minimal anyway since I expect just more of the same with 5.0 already) fanfest had created and threw me into a f*cking bus... As if a free transfer + gil limits/housing fixes anything... How damn out of touch with your playerbase do you need to be for this to be considered anything but a disaster? I pray they halt this decision because it is potentially a game ender for me. You don't split up friends like this, you don't ruin already ailing queues like this... This is such a monumentally bad move... All for what? So there is no Rabauhn Savage in 5.0? Got some bad news for you, that's still going to happen.

Overpopulation, at least with Chaos, isn't even the real issue... Now you'll have two data centers barely held together with gum and string that'll still break at 5.0s launch, that will still suffer the same network issues... The population is small, the issue is that the hardware/networking using for the data center is just awful and basically always has been... I look forward to 6.0 adding a third EU data center with the exact same issues, perhaps by 8.0 we can just make it a solo game with one data center per player? All still with the exact same technical problems Chaos currently has, of course.

Crazy idea, maybe use some of that Mogstation money to instead invest in better server technology/networking? Nah? Go for the cheap option and just get more of the same? All while screwing over your playerbase? Unbelievable...

[Fyce]

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.

That's actually pretty balanced in terms of total clears. For Chaos, Cerberus and Ragnarok will likely push the other servers up in terms of clearing raids, as static recruitment will involve them more, and Light will remain quite stable.
Also, they probably took the languages into account when splitting, as it seems that Chaos will have more french players, while Light will have more german players. Not everything is about endgame raiding.

[RicaRuin]

That's a completely different argument. If there is (or will be) a major disparity on content clears or queues or what have you then that should definitely be addressed.

Even now, statics have trouble finding new members, queues are long (lol PvP), Farm Groups could be more... And this little population is to be splitted in two. That... will be the death of decent raiding, PvP, and all those trying DPS queueing.

[Aramina]

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.

Maybe a little bad. I agree it will be painful, but I expect it will all work out in the end. I guess I am just the type of person that says "Ok this is the situation, what can I do to make the best of this situation." rather than "This sucks. I hate it. Don't do it." That's not to say I am right and they are wrong... just different.

[SunAurel]

That's actually pretty balanced in terms of total clears. For Chaos, Cerberus and Ragnarok will likely push the other servers up in terms of clearing raids, as static recruitment will involve them more, and Light will remain quite stable.
Also, they probably took the languages into account when splitting, as it seems that Chaos will have more french players, while Light will have more german players. Not everything is about endgame raiding.

It's...Not Balanced If you take the people with Mixed statics into Account that are Part of Ragnarok Teams

[Jybril]

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.

I'm saying if you wanna focus more on raiding lol.
Gilgamesh is the biggest raiding server so if you prefer that
then there you go, along with Sarg. I just feel like Crystal
would probably have the lesser of the static side.
I'm not saying it's going to be dead, but it sure will
be a lot less going on now.