Free transfers and housing reimbursements are a given. They are NOT an apology

[Lambdafish]

Woah step back a second. Balmung is not to blame for the problem.

You are correct, but Balmung is the cause of this problem. And the Devs have nothing to apologise for. They know the backlash from this, and it was a difficult decision, and the appropriate compensation has been given. But ultimately the Devs should not apologise for implementing a change that will improve the health of servers and provide a better experience for players. This change is hugely positive, and the threads from people saying "change it back" are completely ignorant to why this change is happening in the first place.

[SunAurel]

You are correct, but Balmung is the cause of this problem. And the Devs have nothing to apologise for. They know the backlash from this, and it was a difficult decision, and the appropriate compensation has been given. But ultimately the Devs should not apologise for implementing a change that will improve the health of servers and provide a better experience for playbers. This change is hugely positive, and the threads from people saying "change it back" are completely ignorant to why this change is happening in the first place.

This compensation is a Joke and in no way comparable to something that might screw Up the game for years.

It's also insulting that Long Time and loyal Players are the ones suffering from this. To keep our Houses we Had to have a constant Subscription, Same with Raiders and RP'ers.

Those Groups are the backbone of the Servers because we keep our sub very reliable, but this Change affects us all and especially the raiders

[Nalien]

Free Companies cannot get any reimbursement other than letting the house plot expire from no activity for 45 days (not entering the house).

Well SE needs to work on that ASAP, that's a f*cking joke... Bad enough if you move with your Free Company you need to regrind everything for it; Can't even buy an estate until rank 6, which very likely means you'll miss out on even being able to rebuy your plot before someone else snaps it up. You lose Airship and Submarines, all the Credits, etc. They mentioned a Free Company transfer system in the past, but seemingly never decided to work on it, this is the bloody time to implement it and we get nothing... Not even reimbursement... What a complete and utter joke...

This whole situation really is just a complete and utter mess... Way to completely kill the hype for 5.0 for those of us effected, Yoshida... I lose out if I stay, lose out if I move... Lose out if I just quit, but that honestly seems like the best option right now... Why am I paying a subscription to be put in this kind of shitty situation? I just wanted to play with friends and enjoy myself, not have to worry about this kind of bull. Can't believe the monumental lack of awareness that must have gone into announcing World-Visit alongside this... All these great features to help you play with friends on other servers, an expansion announcement you can enjoy with them, then you decide to split people up like this? What a farce.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Do you keep your furniture and get 3.5M for your trouble of moving or do you lose your furniture and get 3.5M for your lost? Because if you lose your furniture, 3.5M don't seem like nearly enough for most households and there are also things you can't buy with gil like rewards, drops and things from the mogry-station bought with your real money..

[Nalien]

Do you keep your furniture and get 3.5M for your trouble of moving or do you lose your furniture and get 3.5M for your lost? Because if you lose your furniture, 3.5M don't seem like nearly enough for most households and there are also things you can't buy with gil like rewards, drops and things from the mogry-station bought with your real money..

I believe it's the later; you lose everything you don't move to a retainer or something. I'm not 100% sure on that though, still waiting on confirmation. I know when you move an estate (what they added with Shirogane), they temporarily expanded the storage function and your furniture got dumped in there, but that's moving within the same server, I do not believe that functionality extends to moving servers.

What would be really nice is if they created some ticket system or something for this... Your current estate, with all the furniture and storage, gets saved. You move, if you get a new plot, or new room, use that ticket and get everything back. Ideal world all the furniture placed right back where it was because I'm not looking forward to redoing something which took me years to produce... Certainly not holding my breath on any of that though, far too complex a system, far too much workload to shift such a thing onto something like the GM team... No, the players will have to suffer instead, good chance for SE to promote their additional retainer subscription; Why not get extra money out of inconveniencing us like this?

[Hamada]

You are correct, but Balmung is the cause of this problem. And the Devs have nothing to apologise for. They know the backlash from this, and it was a difficult decision, and the appropriate compensation has been given. But ultimately the Devs should not apologise for implementing a change that will improve the health of servers and provide a better experience for players. This change is hugely positive, and the threads from people saying "change it back" are completely ignorant to why this change is happening in the first place.

Balmung is not the cause of the problem, SE is. SE can't fund better servers for whatever reason, SE can't fund better housing, SE cant desgin better housing, that is not a balmung problem, it is a development and funding problem.

Also development could done better to get people to move (I/e addressing housing) and have server zone visitation sooner. SE is really behind at the times that a lot of games manage with ease, how is that a playerbase (balmung) problem? I am so sick of people attacking the balmung playerbase for SE's shortcomings. I guess it is easy to insult a server's playerbase for memes when you are not from there.

[Krojack]

That was my entire point. Blizzard kept upgrading their servers. Hell they even sold one of them to the highest bidder. Right now 14 is about where WoW was mid to end of Lich King xpac. This isn't counting 14's 1.0 phase. Lich King is when Blizzard starting making huge leaps in their server tech and quality. Live patches to the server and clients without having to take them down. Live activation of xpacs without having to take the servers offline as well.

I think SE should really invest in server updates even if it means bringing a few more people on board to help out. Having as little down time and being able to live patch servers and clients means very happy players. If the player base is growing like they claim then this is an area they really need to focus on. People coming over from WoW feel like they are going back in time when it comes to these features...

[Final-Fantasy]

Do you keep your furniture and get 3.5M for your trouble of moving or do you lose your furniture and get 3.5M for your lost? Because if you lose your furniture, 3.5M don't seem like nearly enough for most households and there are also things you can't buy with gil like rewards, drops and things from the mogry-station bought with your real money..

How it works is:
You empty your estate of all furnishings, inside and out. (A few items cannot be removed, they will be destroyed, such as Chocobo stable, teleport item)
Once your estate is completely empty, you then go outside and remove the house from the plot of land, note that if you have a house wall glamour, to keep it you first need to swap it with another, i would swap it with a cheap merchant wall from the MB, this way it will be placed in your inventory after the swap.
You then will be ready to world shift, you must keep the plot itself, don't relinquish it. (Also, don't remove the house until they actually active the refund, which isn't currently on, you will just get an error saying you can't move because you own a plot of land)
Once you move worlds, when you login to the new world, you automatically get +3,000,000 Gil added to your total, and you also get 100% of the Gil you used to purchase your old plot as well.

That was my entire point. Blizzard kept upgrading their servers. Hell they even sold one of them to the highest bidder. Right now 14 is about where WoW was mid to end of Lich King xpac. This isn't counting 14's 1.0 phase. Lich King is when Blizzard starting making huge leaps in their server tech and quality. Live patches to the server and clients without having to take them down. Live activation of xpacs without having to take the servers offline as well.

I think SE should really invest in server updates even if it means bringing a few more people on board to help out. Having as little down time and being able to live patch servers and clients means very happy players. If the player base is growing like they claim then this is an area they really need to focus on. People coming over from WoW feel like they are going back in time when it comes to these features...

This should be a priority for SE! 4 to 24 hour maintenance every so often... adds up.

[Hamada]

That was my entire point. Blizzard kept upgrading their servers. Hell they even sold one of them to the highest bidder. Right now 14 is about where WoW was mid to end of Lich King xpac. This isn't counting 14's 1.0 phase. Lich King is when Blizzard starting making huge leaps in their server tech and quality. Live patches to the server and clients without having to take them down. Live activation of xpacs without having to take the servers offline as well.

I think SE should really invest in server updates even if it means bringing a few more people on board to help out. Having as little down time and being able to live patch servers and clients means very happy players. If the player base is growing like they claim then this is an area they really need to focus on. People coming over from WoW feel like they are going back in time when it comes to these features...

That is the main point of a thread I made here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...your-budget%29
With all the money they gathered from us for the 5 years? I think it is time to give us more then minimal effort.

[ScarecrowJames]

People, you're not entitled to anything. This is SE going "sorry server is full", they can't magically create more space.

Some players are going to throw a fit because they have mains on Balmung, some are going to throw a fit because they have alts on Balmung, some will throw a fit because the only reason they were in Aether was to have cross-world parties with people on Balmung, but at the end of the day, Balmung is the reason for this.

Make your alts now before the servers are split up if you want to stay together, because once they're split, moving will be a bigger issue. If you already maxed out how many characters you can make on one data center ... I sure hope SE decides to allow players to have more, because if by some bizarre reason someone has 40 characters between Primal and Aether... well that could mean all their characters end up on Crystal.

People aren't entitled to a game they pay money for kinda like the people who backed No Mans Sky? Well just color me purple.