They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Dirwen]

im not gonna lie but this for some reason made me laugh

Yea from what I read on the forums there are a lot of raiders that seem to RP too. I have nothing against RPers as I do want to visit these so-called RPing brothels on my main. For research purposes of course.

[SynTepes]

I had plans on moving to Mateus cause I've been wanting to RP since I joined FFXIV. And since they didn't have servers listed as RP, PvE, PvP (like WoW which I came from) I just kind of picked a random server. It was til I had already lvled all the way to 70 that I had learned about Bulmung being the RP server unofficially. But it was locked.
I then meant some others from Cactuar and was invited to join their static. So I moved to Cactuar, hoping that I'd have better like there with everything, including RP since I was on a dead server.
Well no luck for the RP still. So I was going to move to Mateus since it had become the next 'best' place to go with Balmung not available. But now I'm screwed.
RP has always been something I enjoy doing in MMOs, so it sucks that they're moving like all the RP servers to one Datacenter. It really doesn't make sense imo.

People like to do both/everything you know? Why should we have to choose RP over Raiding over PvP, etc.
I like seriously raiding, so I wont be leaving my static. But it sucks that I'm getting shafted on being able to RP.
At least I didn't move to Mateus yet...even with the free transfer back, it would've been a waste of money. -sigh-

[Charisma]

So in EU we have populated world on chaos and dead worlds on light.... rip light data center, they just killed it -.-

What are you talking about? Zodiark and Lich have the highest populations of the eu datacenters... each of them have even more population than louisoix and omega combined.

[Aquaslash]

Yea from what I read on the forums there are a lot of raiders that seem to RP too. I have nothing against RPers as I do want to visit these so-called RPing brothels on my main. For research purposes of course.

In most cases, the most elite and high skilled of raiders and the most..."infamous" (to put it nicely) roleplayers are one and the same

[dinnertime]

RP has always been something I enjoy doing in MMOs, so it sucks that they're moving like all the RP servers to one Datacenter. It really doesn't make sense imo.

I'm pretty sure they decided on it based on population. Balmung and Mateus are the biggest servers on Aether and they grouped them up with the servers with the least amount of people into Crystal. Meanwhike Aether keeps the servers with a stable population.
It just so happens that both RP servers are paired up which honestly is smart of them.

[Yuyuka3]

I met my boyfriend on online games. We have now been together for 7 years and plan to marry and start a family.

Like...are you even thinking about what you are saying?

You can find meaningful relationships online and in online games....if someone can meet their significant other online then friendships are even easier, hello?

Are you a licensed psychiatrist? What is so unhealthy about having friends, spending time having fun with them, and cherishing your interactions with them?

Having friends and wanting to continue playing with them is "unhealthy"....sigh...just when you think you've seen everything on these forums. This is ridiculous.

Also, I found quite a few pretty good friends online from all over the world, many of which I know personally. I, too, met my current partner via this game. How is that in any way, shape, or form unhealthy? And this doesn't even touch on the fact that two of my best rl friends also play this game, and one will stay on one, the other will move on the other datacenter, and we all three got a huge chain of other people attached to our butts (like aforementioned partner of mine...) we would like to stay in contact and play with.

What am I supposed to do, play favorites between my closest rl friends, the friends I met online but also know irl, and my freaking life partner, or what?

People like that NanaWiloh person who spouted that bullshit are the ones who should seek out therapy, sorry.

Btw, in my entire more than 10 year MMO career, this is the very first time I ever experienced such bullshit as what is happening here now. All I ever had were server/data center merges. That's it. NEVER have I experienced a split.

[Drakonas]

It just so happens that both RP servers are paired up which honestly is smart of them.

No it's not smart. I, and many others on Mateus are not part of these RP'ers, but do savage and late-game content. Now we will have to move to another server because our queue times are going to be utter crap.

What I am angry about is everyone is saying Mateus is an RP server, but what they don't seem to get is that Mateus WASN'T an RP server prior to 4.0. When 4.0 hit, lots of ERP-ers flooded our server from Balmung and Gilgamesh. It utterly ruined our world. I've been playing with the same group of people for 4 years, and times have changed. These changes have ruined my fun for this game.

This is some other guy taking over on this part of the post because I can't be bothered to login here:

it sucks. I transferred to Mateus to PLAY WITH THIS GUY UP HERE WHILE BEING ABLE TO PLAY WITH MY FRIEND ON CACTUAR. Now I can't. That's dumb. Really dumb. Even with free transfers, the transfers require me to either
1) Get my friend to quit her FC and come over with me and drop all of her friends.
2) Get my OTHER friend (THIS GUY) to quit his FC and come over with me.

How is that smart?

[dinnertime]

No it's not smart. I, and many others on Mateus are not part of these RP'ers, but do savage and late-game content. Now we will have to move to another server because our queue times are going to be utter crap.

What I am angry about is everyone is saying Mateus is an RP server, but what they don't seem to get is that Mateus WASN'T an RP server prior to 4.0. When 4.0 hit, lots of ERP-ers flooded our server from Balmung and Gilgamesh. It utterly ruined our world. I've been playing with the same group of people for 4 years, and times have changed. These changes have ruined my fun for this game.

This is some other guy taking over on this part of the post because I can't be bothered to login here:

it sucks. I transferred to Mateus to PLAY WITH THIS GUY UP HERE WHILE BEING ABLE TO PLAY WITH MY FRIEND ON CACTUAR. Now I can't. That's dumb. Really dumb. Even with free transfers, the transfers require me to either
1) Get my friend to quit her FC and come over with me and drop all of her friends.
2) Get my OTHER friend (THIS GUY) to quit his FC and come over with me.

How is that smart?

You're not getting it. It was coincidental at most that the RP servers were moved to the new datacenter. They could've swapped Mateus with Gilgamesh alternatively and people will still get mad. The devs can't please everybody.

Besides players can call a server the RP server, Raid server or PvP server all they want, but officially these are just 'servers' and people can actually do anything they want on them. I'm sorry your server got "ruined" by those mean and scary RPers...Not.
I won't say much about the consequences of the world arrangements, but it's obvious that SE is taking a huge sacrifice here, for something that'll benefit the game in the long run.

[Sheriyana]

I'm lucky in that my only complaint is that Chaos and Light aren't called Chaos and Order. :'(

It should be Chaos and Harmony, like in Dissidia. But yeah, that kind of rubs me the wrong way too, I mean it's definitely not the biggest complaint but they made it sound like light is the opposite of chaos which is just wrong.

[sydh]

Ahh, I just love having my server kicked out of the data-center we have enjoyed since 2.0 release in August, 2013. I'm glad to see that the XIV dev team worked hard on upgrading their tech to allow world visiting much sooner than I think anyone expected. Now where is the second half of that updated server tech? Where is the full NA/EU/JP+ data-centers? I would rather wait and keep things pre 4.5 shuffle and deal with 'Raubahn savage' again on the 5.0 expansion release rush. I would rather deal with a few days of troubled instances than forcing thousands upon thousands of people to either pick the server friends of 5 1/2 years(2.0 players) or their data-center friends of 2ish years(late 2016 release). Thanks SE.