They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Dyvid]

Maybe SE's mistake was to introduce cross server anything until after the new data centers came online. Maybe world sharing is a mistake to begin with. Maybe SE should have just called it quits with 1.0 and not rebuild on top of it. Hind sight sucks and it is what it is. MMO's always break or merge servers over time and FFXIV isn't immune to this reality. People will accept it, change with it, or out right quit. I can only think of one meme that sums up how I feel about this though:




On a side note, we gamers always hate the developers whose games we love; SE, EA, Blizzard, Activision, etc... Nothing important to the debate really just funny to me at my older age.

[HyoMinPark]

Maybe SE's mistake was to introduce cross server anything until after the new data centers came online. Maybe world sharing is a mistake to begin with. Maybe SE should have just called it quits with 1.0 and not rebuild on top of it. Hind sight sucks and it is what it is. MMO's always break or merge servers over time and FFXIV isn't immune to this reality. People will accept it, change with it, or out right quit. I can only think of one meme that sums up how I feel about this though:

On a side note, we gamers always hate the developers whose games we love; SE, EA, Blizzard, Activision, etc... Nothing important to the debate really just funny to me at my older age.

Nice strawman. You’re missing the point of why people are so upset. Speaking for myself, my static started Alphascape late to clear UwU, and we haven’t cleared Final Omega yet. We also want to do parse runs, and now we’re on a timeline to get all of this done before this change is implemented in 4.5. We lose contact with half of one another, and, speaking for myself, my static have become my friends.

I hear it now: “Just free transfer over to their data center”, but what people saying this fail to realize is that I also have friends on my home server—friends that I have known since I started playing—that I also do not want to leave. One of them is even considering resubbing for 5.0, since they had to unsub at the beginning of SB because life things happened. So now I’m having to choose between raid and my static friends, and the friends that I have known since I started playing.

This isn’t even counting that I have a house on my server—a highly desired plot—that I don’t want to give up, despite reimbursement, because I worked really hard to even get it (and it took me until the most recent Housing addition to do so). Plus all my other friends that are cross-server and will be with me on what is left of Aether.

People are mad because they’re being forced to choose, and unless they’re extremely lucky, people are losing at least something by making a choice: static, friends, FC, housing, server community, etc..