Quote Originally Posted by Sidious View Post
Not all world communities are made equal, and there are some I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Like Besaid (no personal offense, Besaid-ers). If they decided to merge Saronia with Besaid, I'd be SOL. That would suck. Blanket merges sucked in FFXI, they'd suck in FFXIV.
Have you ever rolled a character on Besaid? I doubt it. You're too afraid of whatever to even realize that there are probably a bunch of characters like you on it.
Quote Originally Posted by Sidious View Post
They're not being used as filler. SE probably doesn't want to waste a bunch of resources getting the logistics figured out for the method you suggest. Rightfully so.
Not even gonna' bother.

Quote Originally Posted by Sidious View Post
So for the non-subscribers, you support blanket merges, but for the paying accounts, you support choice. Care to explain?
Read what you just wrote. Do you really need me to elaborate?
No, I want you to explain. You've got a lot of "it should happen this way or that way" going, but never bother telling us why. Because you don't want SE devoting resources to expanding slightly on a system they've already had to develop? So we have a system that will transfer every active character to a server on a said day. Will it really be that much of a big deal to modify it so that, later, it will work for one character at a time? And even if they did, then wouldn't they have just created what they could also use to handle paid server transfers? Then, if the Besaid community happens to pick the same random server you do, you could move away.