Can we have a server merger after fee take place ?

[Kinseykinz]

Please make a world shift possible so that players can choose to migrate to a different server. I have friends on barren servers that would love to come to Lindblum.

This would be nice whether population declines more or not...I have people on other servers who'd love to come to mine /join ls.

As to further population decline: Honestly, the people who are still playing will be the ones still paying. Add maybe 20% more SUB fees for those sitting on the sidelines in the lulls between patches. You know, the people who all come back right after a patch, finish all the content they are interested in, and then leave and go do something else until more content is added. They still like the game, they are just choosing to do something else with their time during patch lulls. (this 20% may or may not pay the Jan/Feb sub fees but will be back Feb/March with the 1.21 release.) After 1.21 release, we'll probably see another population increase as that will mark the conclusion of the battle system and class adjustments. (maybe 10% more will come back). After that, we'll probably have a steady loyal population until 2.0 comes out.

My point: I really do feel the population is about as low as it's going to get. There are a lot of people sitting on the sidelines just waiting for patch 1.21 and beyond. Once we get those patches, they'll be back, many to stay.

[Kiara]

Don't merge servers, offer world transfers please. Instead of worrying about a bunch of dead account data allow active players to choose where they would like to go. This gives them the benefit of choosing a server they may have friends on, I know a lot of people got split up at launch.

To Yoshida-san and FF XIV Team:

I would agree with Belial, Zanfire, Rentahamster and others:

Allow Server Transfers, *not* Merging Servers.

This would allow people to go to other servers if they want, without forcibly cramming 2 or 3 different servers worth of players into 1 server.

It would also be less painful and easier to handle than merging / shutting down servers, etc.

Thanks.

[Belial]

To Yoshida-san and FF XIV Team:

I would agree with Belial, Zanfire, Rentahamster and others:

Allow Server Transfers, *not* Merging Servers.

This would allow people to go to other servers if they want, without forcibly cramming 2 or 3 different servers worth of players into 1 server.

It would also be less painful and easier to handle than merging / shutting down servers, etc.

Thanks.

Yes and there are many other factors to play into that I may or may not have mentioned, like RPers should have the choice to go to Besaid, it's got a great community for that facet of gameplay.

Not to mention, the playerbase will look at SE with much brighter eyes if they say "Ok, go ahead and pick your new home." as opposed to "You're going to go here now."

[Lionheart]

Sorry for the delayed response to this topic, but things have been a bit busy as the team worked to complete patch 1.20. I confirmed with Yoshida that we'll continue to monitor the in-game populations and situation, and if we run into issues where players are unable to match up with each other for parties and other content, then of course the possibility of mergers taking place is there.

Trabia server... last week I logged 3 days in a row to find some party to exp gld and had to log out without success... only people online were mainly working on crafting... it looked like a dead server. Please look into it. Thanks.

[Lienn]

Depending of the situation, server transfer would actually make things even worse because just some from less populated servers would move to more populated ones.

IMO:

a) server transfer = good when starting new servers or all servers are even in population and in a decent populational level.

b) server merge = good when we have an unbalanced population distribution among servers, causing issues to party-based content in certain servers only. (like we have now)

[Blarp]

What's the point of transfers? A lot of people will more than likely move to the highest population servers. All it does is makes a few servers high-pop while others will be ghost towns (even more than now.)

[Eugenics]

Trabia server... last week I logged 3 days in a row to find some party to exp gld and had to log out without success... only people online were mainly working on crafting... it looked like a dead server. Please look into it. Thanks.

I agree it's almost a barren wasteland.

[Lakefingers]

Ok, the way round this is to merge servers to balance populations, allow two months integration, then pop in the transfer function.

[Kio]

Trabia server... last week I logged 3 days in a row to find some party to exp gld and had to log out without success... only people online were mainly working on crafting... it looked like a dead server. Please look into it. Thanks.

Seconded, it takes hours sometimes to get a party together and you can often count the number of players in uldah on your phalanges.

[Tempestmoon]

SE you need to put world transfers in. For anytime, And charge 25$ for those who want to do it.


Thanks