Cancel server merges all together. Reason why:

[Sidious]

Good news! While launch is January, the Beta is slated to begin around September ... that's only ... SIX MONTHS.
Although it will definitely, positively, unequivocally, never-been-so-sure-of-anything-else-in-my-entire-life get delayed.

Fixed for you =)

[Niqote]

The merge is a great thing for the smaller servers, no we should not wait.

You shouldn't put something that's needed in the 'too hard basket' just because people are contesting the manner in which is may be done.

[Estellios]

I even wish they would happen much sooner but this gives people time to organize where they will go.

[Noir]

The merge is a great thing for the smaller servers, no we should not wait.

You shouldn't put something that's needed in the 'too hard basket' just because people are contesting the manner in which is may be done.

Don't forget that with each patch, more people will come back, start with ffxiv. Those servers with few players, will definitely get more people. Looks like a long time, but 6-10 months goes fast. Keeping your char/retainers's names, friends, server name, for the majority have no price..

[darkstarpoet1]

Don't forget that with each patch, more people will come back, start with ffxiv. Those servers with few players, will definitely get more people. Looks like a long time, but 6-10 months goes fast. Keeping your char/retainers's names, friends, server name, for the majority have no price..

the problem is that the smaller servers are just continuing to drop in population. it's to the point on karnak that it is a chore just to get enough people together to do even a moogle party. the 6-10 months go fast when you are having fun, but having nothing to do daily besides work towards luminary tools is not my idea of fun.

i know of a few people that will be coming back, but i also know alot of the people that got digital copies that has their free trial expiring and those people will be leaving. keeping 50-60 english speaking players during even peak times that are ranked from rank 1-50 is not enough a population to keep the people willing to pay for the game here. the majority of us had already started discussing how long we were going to give them to merge before we left and moved to other games as groups.

if the smaller servers hadn't gotten a server merge there would be no use to do it in 6-10 months because the ps3 players would have had completely empty servers to join when all the original players had already left.

[NefarioCall]

Fixed for you =)

Good point. Transfer service is probably a given.

[Noir]

the problem is that the smaller servers are just continuing to drop in population. it's to the point on karnak that it is a chore just to get enough people together to do even a moogle party. the 6-10 months go fast when you are having fun, but having nothing to do daily besides work towards luminary tools is not my idea of fun.

i know of a few people that will be coming back, but i also know alot of the people that got digital copies that has their free trial expiring and those people will be leaving. keeping 50-60 english speaking players during even peak times that are ranked from rank 1-50 is not enough a population to keep the people willing to pay for the game here. the majority of us had already started discussing how long we were going to give them to merge before we left and moved to other games as groups.

if the smaller servers hadn't gotten a server merge there would be no use to do it in 6-10 months because the ps3 players would have had completely empty servers to join when all the original players had already left.

That's why it would be much easier if they came up with a server transfer for players that are into the lower populated servers. Only for them. Only for those that want. Because its more fair. And it will make everyone happy.

[darkstarpoet1]

That's why it would be much easier if they came up with a server transfer for players that are into the lower populated servers. Only for them. Only for those that want. Because its more fair. And it will make everyone happy.

that i would have been completely happy with also.

it's just hard to play a mmo when you are one of 15-20 r50 char on at a time and try to get a party together to find out that 10 of those are afk and a few more are busy. i do feel sorry for the larger servers that are getting split up in this process though.

i'm one that would have loved to just have the basic large server merge with a small one and then the whole server got moved active and inactive players. it would have kept the big and small servers where when people came back they could rejoin the people they knew. if they wanted to give an optional transfer after the forced move so people could join the jp or eu server or even move to or away from the rp server they had that one time option to do so.

my point is not to argue, but more of the server merge was needed. it is understandable that people, like me, on small servers should have needed to move. it just seems to be a bit of overkill to force the larger servers to do the same and lose contact with people taking breaks.

[Vackashken]

No - I am immensely looking forward to this.

[neizero]

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