SE How Hard? (About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012))

[Leela]

If we have to do this server merge please just do a normal merge, don't disrupt the community.
The way it was presented to us forces us to choose between friends, no doubt about it people are going to be separated by this poor system many of them not interested in returning to a game without their friends.

Just give me one reason why this merge system is in any way better then a normal merge.

SE you have the numbers of active accounts per server i'm sure it's not hard to add those up.

[Elexia]

It doesn't force you to choose between friends.

-picks up the phone and calls up friends- "Hey, due to the nature of server transfer style merges, lets select new world 2."

-Loads up MSN/AIM/Yahoo/Meebo/Otherchatprogramhere- "For the linkshell, lets contact all members/make a post detailing we'll be moving to new world 2"

Why would you have to choose between friends? You can easily coordinate where to go unless of course said friends are only FFXIV friends and you never bothered to make outside communication a means of contact.

[Leela]

I have more then 1 friend in this game, so yes it forces ppl to choose, I will type it out for you in a scenario with just 2 friends:

I am in LS-A one of my friends is in LS-B and a other in LS-C

LS-A is going to Server-1
LS-B is going to Server-2
LS-C is going to Server-3

But wait I want to be with my friends so I will go to Server 2 also

LS-A is going to Server-2
LS-B is going to Server-2
LS-C is going to Server-3

Oh but now my other friend is on server 3 explain me how that is NOT choosing between your friends?
And I kept this scenario for your simple with only 2 friends, not even mentioning friends of friends.

[Kyri]

I look forward to meeting you my new future friends, to exploring with new people, and all the rest. I like fresh. I like that I don't have to stay on a populated server while a unpopulated one is forced in our server while we hiss like cats looking for a dominance over each other in a new home. Consider yourself on a Beta that allows you to keep your work. that's nice, isn't it? I like it very much. I hope 2.0 does the same tbh.

[Answa]

[kro]

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.

Here's the problem: Even if the majority of the server agrees to pick a specific number, the more people you tell about it the less likely you and your friends will have a chance to get in.

I could tell everyone on my server to join #2, and maybe I will see most of them there. But my best friend might not be let in because he didn't sign up right away due to work/school/vacation whatever.

I also have friends that want to come back to the game when 2.0 hits, but only if they have an LS come back home to. If the server merges scatter those accounts around randomly, then those players are likely to never come back at all.

The server merge should be a two-step process:

1) There should be a default server merge that allows existing communities and returning players to stay together. This can easily be done by merging an existing high population server with a low population server.

2) Players should be given a one-time only option to change servers after this initial merger via some kind of reservation system. This is to ensure that if one LS wants to change servers together, everyone could "make a reservation" and be certain that the new server has enough room to accept every member before making the jump.

SE says they are doing these server merges to satisfy the existing playerbase. They shouldn't splinter the community in the process. Forcing people to mingle with strangers will not work with the game the way it is. It only works when the game is new, or when a massive influx of people join (2.0).

I sincerely hope they give us some LS administration tools before this server merge takes place, whatever they decide to do. If I have to track down every single person on foot to re-pearl people then I give up.

[SirOleas]

Throwing 2 servers into 1 server does not solve the issue of EU players being scattered across servers.
It only make the problem smaller.

Not a solution that is fair to EU players; They are people too.
It's not about the individual, it's about the entire population.

It might not be fun, or "easy", but it is fair even though people can't realize that currently because they are hurt by the merge and trying everything they possibly can to stop the current method....which will not solve the problem with the EU community...

>_>
Hope it makes sense.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

Throwing 2 servers into 1 server does not solve the issue of EU players being scattered across servers.
It only make the problem smaller.

Not a solution that is fair to EU players; They are people too.
It's not about the individual, it's about the entire population.

It might not be fun, or "easy", but it is fair even though people can't realize that currently because they are hurt by the merge and trying everything they possibly can to stop the current method....which will not solve the problem with the EU community...

>_>
Hope it makes sense.

If EU guys wanna play together then fair play to them if they mergre the servers and let us decide after they mergre the server to pick one fo the 10 servers if we decide we still want to get out of the server. This will shout everyone up and solve so many problems all the EU players can beat of into 1 server if they wanted.

Plus choosing now donest mean let's say world 6 is going to be full with just EU guys, most people play this game to play with people from all around the world just not from around them, if they wanted to play with people around them they would go outside and play with them in RL.

[SirOleas]

I guess that could work.

However; it's still about being 100% fair.
Even if EU players choose to scatter themselves again, they had the choice to group up. Just like we have the same choice.
It's a crude way to look at it, but I believe this is what SE was thinking.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

I guess that could work.

However; it's still about being 100% fair.
Even if EU players choose to scatter themselves again, they had the choice to group up. Just like we have the same choice.
It's a crude way to look at it, but I believe this is what SE was thinking.

yea i no what there trying to do and it is a gd idea but there just doing it the wrong way >< trying to get everyone to play with new people and more EU people together more JP's together and so on.

They wanted to try something new i guess as well just to see how we would react, i will admit most of us inculding my self has over reacted about the whole thing, but at the end of the day it's like moving house you going to leave all you're friends or/and family (linkshell).