They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Paladinleeds]

and 3 million Gil compensation for furnishing is like a joke. You cannot even but a crafted weapon at most NA servers lol.

You can also pick up all your furnishings (or almost all), so that you don't lose them when you move. Just pick up all your belongings before you move, keep all your furnishings and get a free 3 mill. Not too shabby in my eyes.

Clinging to ingame friendships so tightly is unhealthy..so seek therapy yourself before suggesting others do.

I met my ex who I'm wonderful friends with through this game. I've forged lasting friendships with people in this game (and had less problems than I've had with IRL friends). Yet apparently I need therapy? Sorry but I agree with Moro here, you really are being insensitive about this. In fact, I've had therapists tell me that having online friends isn't a bad thing (and treating them as valuable as IRL friendships is fine too), so guess what, that goes counter to your entire point, and that coming from a trained psychologist. Try again.

[Enla]

I'm starting to wonder if with all this talk of mass transfers to Aether if SE won't eventually try to lock that data center down to try and 'fix' the problem of their own making and encourage people onto Crystal. This bandaid is going to need it's own bandaids ad nauseum until they pony up the cash for better servers.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Given how quiet Bryn is, I'm hopeful for a population boost with the new DC being linked to the major server.

Sure the raiders may start congesting Gilgamesh but that's not to say crystal's scene will be dead, something'll grow from it.

[NanaWiloh]

You can also pick up all your furnishings (or almost all), so that you don't lose them when you move. Just pick up all your belongings before you move, keep all your furnishings and get a free 3 mill. Not too shabby in my eyes.



I met my ex who I'm wonderful friends with through this game. I've forged lasting friendships with people in this game (and had less problems than I've had with IRL friends). Yet apparently I need therapy? Sorry but I agree with Moro here, you really are being insensitive about this. In fact, I've had therapists tell me that having online friends isn't a bad thing (and treating them as valuable as IRL friendships is fine too), so guess what, that goes counter to your entire point, and that coming from a trained psychologist. Try again.

Psychology on matters online if your looking to be a predator. Cause last time I checked nobody plays a online game looking for mental help.

[Enla]

Psychology on matters online if your looking to be a predator. Cause last time I checked nobody plays a online game looking for mental help.

Not directly, but plenty of people I know play online games because they help ease symptoms relating to mental help. Or the people they met through the game are a good influence that help the player get into a better head space. I'm also not really sure why you're being so nasty about this? What does it matter if people have made genuine friendships online?

[Miingno]

Sadly I fear the development and ordering of new infrastructure and servers and connections between them and what not is already way too far advanced if they were able to announce it officially. Yet I really dislike this splitting too, even though it does not affect me directly.

What I really want SQEX to ask themselves is, was this the "best" solution? This splitting seems like the "easiest", the one with the least work to do. Maybe the "cheapest" one too. But is this still the "best" solution? Could it maybe be more beneficial to put a bit more development into stabilization and optimization than to simply rip apart connections and relationships between the players which in the end will have to pay for it with their tears and money?

I know, we only use your service. But still, without the WoL this service would not exist in the first place. I just think, the ones that pay for your services should be heard and considered in determining which the "best", the "very best" solution actually is.

[ElHeggunte]

Nothing personal against Balmung, but I can't say I'm terribly pleased with these seating arrangements. I also don't want to leave Primal. I know I'll regret this day. Like leaving a datacenter-shaped womb where it was warm, and safe, and wet. This will be awkward and painful, in a way I never knew existed. It's going to be a whole new spectrum of pain, like a rainbow. And this rainbow, it's not just like any other rainbow, no sir. It's a rainbow so painful they'll have to invent new colors for it. And I'm bored with myself so I'm going to stop talking about pain and rainbows and wombs and just say that this serve redistribution sucks.

[NanaWiloh]

Not directly, but plenty of people I know play online games because they help ease symptoms relating to mental help. Or the people they met through the game are a good influence that help the player get into a better head space. I'm also not really sure why you're being so nasty about this? What does it matter if people have made genuine friendships online?

I have nothing against genuine friendships I have a friend of more then 10+ yrs. Its the accusation that SE does not care about friendships forged in this game that set me off.They do care its just not their top priority if they didnt care you would not have free transfers. What they are doing with the servers is least intrusive way to solve the current infrastructure issues. There are more agressive methods they could take in dealing with but it would come at greater cost like not being able to play the game for 6+ months. Their choosing the lesser of two evils as they would say..

[Theodric]

I dislike the uncertainty.

I've been on Balmung since the early days of ARR. I've seen the server change over time. It used to be the place to be and had a broad variety of players who were interested in different types of content. Over time, the number of role-players grew.

I role-play occasionally, though I only do it with people I can trust not to be overly dramatic and/or thirsty. Looking at Ul'dah and the sort of role-players it attracts its hard not to see why role-players have such a poor reputation. Though I assure people that we're not all like that and some of us really just want to have out characters head out into the game world and have cool adventures.

That aside...

I'm worried. I'm looking forward to the expansion but this news has soured things. I don't want to be stuck on a server that mostly just has role-players. I enjoy having people on Balmung who like to do PvE and PvP content. Yet that number has been declining over time...and I know there's already people considering moving because they don't want to be stuck on Crystal.

So I guess I need to decide what I want to do. There's people I really enjoy talking to and playing with on Balmung. Yet Discord exists as a means to chat with them outside of the game. Pockets of role-players exist on every server and the person I role-play with most frequently would be transferring with me if I left Balmung.

Of course, I don't want to make a knee jerk reaction so leaving at present isn't worthwhile...

[Jybril]

No mmo developer is going to make your in game relationships priority when making these decision. The health of the servers takes priority over your ingame friendships, don't like it quit and never touch MMO again. Clinging to ingame friendships so tightly is unhealthy..so seek therapy yourself before suggesting others do.

This comment was uneeded. You telling me we need to seek therapy over making online friendships?
I have you know I met my best friend, online, 10 years ago when we were teenagers.
Why does it matter whether you met your friends in-game/online or not?
It's cool you can pick up and make new friends easily but it's different when you
known the people for literal years.
Either way, the split is going to hurt someone, somewhere, because there's no way you
can get others to move because they have their reasons to stay. People met others in all different
servers within the centers.
No reason to be mean about this.