Can we have a server merger after fee take place ?

[Gildrein]

Howdy! Yoshida has made a post stating that the world merge is currently being planned and would like to share the details here as well.

Hi, this is Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I understand your concern on the number of concurrent users.

Actually the world merge is currently in plan.

We will first analyze the number of players in the game after the billing service begins.
Based on that analysis, we will be running a simulation where the maximum concurrent access during the peak hours will become somewhere around 1500 to 2000 per World.
* The above number is provisional and not a finalized number.

And with the method on how the world merge will be done, it will not be done in a simple method where World A and World B will merge into a single new World.
In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass, we are planning to go with the method where the players from a World with a less population can designate the World they wish to transfer to.

With the details such as when and how it will be done, they will be announced once they are confirmed.
(I'm assuming that the next update should become available in mid-January.)

[Rentahamster]

Howdy! Yoshida has made a post stating that the world merge is currently being planned and would like to share the details here as well.

YES!

Good news

[Bahn]

Howdy! Yoshida has made a post stating that the world merge is currently being planned and would like to share the details here as well.

Thank you! Exactly what I wanted to hear!

Something I just realized - Yoshida actually used the word "mid" for the month of January, so whoever initially said that the Japanese use "early = 1 - 15 and late = 16 - 31" was incorrect.

That's good to hear though - and as I thought, the merger needs to be timely to keep the population that stays after 1/6. Very smart of Yoshida to realize the merger must happen in order to retain additional subscribers. Kinda wondering how they're going to decide which world will get to select where they go. How many worlds are going to be consolidated? If for example, my server, Saronia, gets to pick - what choices will they have to pick from? Will everyone be able to pick the "big" servers like Besaid and Lindblum or will the smaller worlds only be the ones merging with each other into one world?

[Sophia]

Howdy! Yoshida has made a post stating that the world merge is currently being planned and would like to share the details here as well.

YAY im happy now XD

[syntaxlies]

Howdy! Yoshida has made a post stating that the world merge is currently being planned and would like to share the details here as well.

umm, just wanted to say in your face to all the people that said this would never happen earlier in the thread,so..., in your face, there i said it.

also looks like world transfer over world merger which is not what i wanted but still good news.

[Kiara]

Hi, this is Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I understand your concern on the number of concurrent users.

Actually the world merge is currently in plan.

We will first analyze the number of players in the game after the billing service begins.
Based on that analysis, we will be running a simulation where the maximum concurrent access during the peak hours will become somewhere around 1500 to 2000 per World.
* The above number is provisional and not a finalized number.

And with the method on how the world merge will be done, it will not be done in a simple method where World A and World B will merge into a single new World.
In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass, we are planning to go with the method where the players from a World with a less population can designate the World they wish to transfer to.

With the details such as when and how it will be done, they will be announced once they are confirmed.
(I'm assuming that the next update should become available in mid-January.)

To Yoshida-san, FF XIV Team and Community Reps:

Thanks for the information. I'm glad to hear that you're allowing players to choose which server to transfer to, instead of force merging multiple servers into 1 with no choice.

One thing that worries me in your comment, though, was "In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass,..."

Please do *not* label or designate the remaining active Servers as ONLY 1 Language or not. That leads to SEGREGATION.

I understand you want to help EU players gather together, but if you end up with a Lodestone Post on the Final Fantasy Main Page that labels, for example:

• Besaid Server - ENGLISH
• Rabanastre Server - JAPANESE
• Mysidia Server - EUROPEAN
• Lindblum Server - JAPANESE
• etc.

You're going to end up indirectly (or directly) influencing and driving players into segregated Servers, where everyone on the server is mostly Japanese, or English-speaking, or European, etc.

One of the most unique and *enjoyable* facets about Square's MMOs (Final Fantasy XI and now XIV) is that you took the time to allow GLOBAL SERVERS. And gave us a solid Auto-Translator Tool to help us communicate (somewhat) with players of different languages.

I love the diversity, flexibility and colorfulness of Final Fantasy's MMO population! I love that I have plenty of Japanese, European and English-speaking friends from around the world and we can play at various times of the day.

I love that even at "odd hours" for me, there are players on and that there's activity going on.

If you end up labeling / categorizing the remaining active Servers in the manner above, players will be influenced to just go to servers that do speak "English" or "Japanese" or are "European" mainly.

If you have to keep Labels (to "help EU players gather" as you stated), one solution to encourage your current diversity is to then add a "GLOBAL" Label, so continuing with the example above:

• Bahamut Server - GLOBAL
• Odin Server - GLOBAL
  
• Besaid Server - ENGLISH
• Rabanastre Server - JAPANESE
• Mysidia Server - EUROPEAN
• Lindblum Server - JAPANESE
• etc.

So at least there's a chance that we'll have global like-minded players gathering.

Thanks for considering this.

[Jinko]

To Yoshida-san, FF XIV Team and Community Reps:

Thanks for the information. I'm glad to hear that you're allowing players to choose which server to transfer to, instead of force merging multiple servers into 1 with no choice.

One thing that worries me in your comment, though, was "In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass,..."

Please do *not* label or designate the remaining active Servers as ONLY 1 Language or not. That leads to SEGREGATION.

I understand you want to help EU players gather together, but if you end up with a Lodestone Post on the Final Fantasy Main Page that labels, for example:

Stuff etc etc etc

I don't see this as an issue, they have been hinting for a while they want to make language specific servers.

I am all for it, It would be awesome if EU had their own server, at least I could do dungeon runs at a decent time and not at 4 in the morning.

[PandaTaru]

Howdy! Yoshida has made a post stating that the world merge is currently being planned and would like to share the details here as well.

Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
Hi, this is Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I understand your concern on the number of concurrent users.

Actually the world merge is currently in plan.

We will first analyze the number of players in the game after the billing service begins.
Based on that analysis, we will be running a simulation where the maximum concurrent access during the peak hours will become somewhere around 1500 to 2000 per World.
* The above number is provisional and not a finalized number.

And with the method on how the world merge will be done, it will not be done in a simple method where World A and World B will merge into a single new World.
In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass, we are planning to go with the method where the players from a World with a less population can designate the World they wish to transfer to.

With the details such as when and how it will be done, they will be announced once they are confirmed.
(I'm assuming that the next update should become available in mid-January.)

Thank you for this sweet xmas gift!

EU players should come to Fabul. We have a sizable amount of EU players in my LS alone and we have been here since beta.

No offense, but I think you misread; The way I read it is that some servers will be shutdown and Fabul will surely be among one of them considering that it's one of the servers with the lowest population. Go try other servers that were mentioned in this thread that have a good/large community of EU players and compare with the number of EU players who are on Fabul. You'll most likely will have to move your ls somewhere else, if everyone in it want to move on the same server, rather than have people coming on the server.

Global servers FTW.

Cheers and thank you again Yoshi for this sweet gift.

[Chardrizard]

lol wrong thread