Thanks for ruining the only experience that keeps me playing.

[Grudgebringer]

Hey Bongeh, and all of you on Trabia.. My LS(Conviction) as well as most of the top LS's will be working together to try and find a new home for us. Were thinking 7(7rabia). Before the merge actually happens im sure there will be shouts regarding this. Some will not follow suit, but i believe many will. It is very important for those of us that have created bonds to stay together. I do think it is just as important to create new ones as the game progresses.

[auritribe]

That's a pretty ironic last statement, isn't it?

Wait, let me context this for you:

"..start a new thread asking for entire servers to be merged and stop pretending that everyone thinks like you do, and wants to be forced into it."

I love how much hate there is going all over the place, meanwhile everyones avatar icons have hearts all over the background.

[Elexia]

The fact that people think that server merge options wont be offered at a later date is just about crazy. It's pretty much an MMO standard now.

Oh please, you really think SE would....



Well what do you know..SE could easily make it a full service after the merge and in the unlikely event that people in 7 linkshells all with 100 members each get separated..there you go.

[Biggs]

Thank you for ruining the community (the reason I play mmo's) and thus ending my enjoyment of FFXIV.

I have many many friends in Trabia, some I only from crafting arrangements, others from XP, Caravan parties and others from Ifrit and Mog, only about 40% of my friends are in my Linkshell. I'm being forced to part ways with my reason for playing this game.

While I can flock with my LS, there is no way that everyone I know will vote in cohesion to join the same server. I have played since beta, have supported this game, and am loosing out.

Friends who are currently non subscribed will now be lost. I have played since beta, have supported this game, and am loosing out.

I like that I don't have to bicker with people about claiming Dodore or TGB, I don't like the prospect of having these things unobtainable like when they we're first released. I have played since beta, have supported this game, and am loosing out.

What I'm trying to say is:

I have played since beta, have supported this game, and am loosing out. Yoshida you have failed me.

EDIT:

People don't seem to understand my stance.

I am not against people being given the option to move server. I am virulently against communities being shattered. It's not an either/or. We could have both but SE have decided the most disruptive option.

Double edit: I'm fully in support of 7rabia. It's a good solution to this problem, lets hope as many as possible can get onto it.

This isn't at all an attack. I genuinily want to hear how we could have both, as you say. It seems to me that by giving everyone the option to move where they want, along with the time to collaborate on who is going where, they HAVE given you both. As opposed to just slap dashing 2 servers together and hoping for the best. Explain how that is fair to the french and german people that have no one to talk to on the server they are on, but now have a place to go that increases their play experience. I see a lot of poeple commenting that they want it BOTH ways, but as of yet, no one has been able to offer a real suggestion as to how everyone (globally, not just in north america) can have their cake and eat it to.

[FilthyDisco]

Make new friends.

[Treach]

Too many pages to read to see if this has already been said but...

Unsubscribed people are not part of the player base, so they don't have any say as what should happen to the accounts they are not paying for. Accounts are actually property of SE that we pay them to use. People who are not subscribed do not have posting access on the forums to voice their invalid opinions of a game they do not support.

Why are people more concerned about people who will probably never play again, compared to what is actually good for the future of this game?

[Elexia]

Why are people more concerned about people who will probably never play again, compared to what is actually good for the future of this game?

Gotta complain about something.

[zaviermhigo]

Make new friends, did you guys even play old school mmos, there are guilds that have lasted 16 years hoping from game to game, some of us who are older would rather find a group of friends around our age, stay with those people and maybe hop to another game with them because we click. I literally hate everyone in FFXIV except for the ls members in my ls's and the people on my friends list. Sure I've been on the same server with the same people since CE so I've had time to develop this hate of the new "memememememe gimme me me me" generation of mmo players.

SE doesn't know HOT to foster a community, they eff'd up with XI, they server merged right before releasing a major expansion, So it looked like they were merging smaller servers together (at least we got names) log in to Valefor one day and its all kujata people, they've just overtaken my whole server, and how they operated there server WAS different.

A lot of you with no emotional attachment to the friends you have now, what are you, a solo player, or just heartless?

AND why do you say "people that will never play again" personally I have friends who won't be playing till a preset date, that's due to college, work, or whatever, there lives are hard right now, in time they won't be. Some people won't come back till 2.0. But they are coming back. I don't just play mmos with people I only talk to in game, I talk to these people on facebook, text messaging, or I know them IRL. I just love how everyone assumes they know what they're talking about but has there head up their ass.

[SirOleas]

Oi.
I love it when people just assume others don't have friends or LS mates because they argue the opposite end of the issue.

Long post is long

[Maxthunder]

I agree SE should have done it as 1 server to another as a forced merger. At the current time players should not have the option to choose what server they want to go to. If a forced merger was the only option yes we would lose the linkshell group that players are in, but we would all be on the same world after a forced merger, and could in fact find the players we normally play with or what not. As SE has given players the choice of servers we already know some will go to the same server others will not for whatever reason. Now that being said and players can choose what server, it seems very likely that some servers will in fact have more players than others. It would also seem that this will also create the same issue we have now to a certain degree, unless SE has something else in mind when completeing the mergers, and or a way to counter this effect so that all servers are as equal in population as possible. We could be trying to solve 1 issue but in fact SE could be making the same issue over again by giveing the players a choice of servers.