About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012)

[Coris]

They really should check all their translations twice or so, so everything will be fine.
Such mistakes shouldn't be there since all the people rely on the translations and don't want to translate the news on their own.

P.S: I don't want to offend anyone, but if all the translations would be the same when it comes to such details as EU and only GER/FR, that would be great and there wouldn't be any misunderstanding >,<

[Leela]

I have created a poll, please vote.
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p...e1b0e44a9bc294

[gahoo]

How about the following:

If a character is inactive for 60 consecutive days (or maybe 90), they would be granted a one-time use world change ticket. That way a player who takes time off, or otherwise leaves the game, can always come back and join up with new friends.

(I think this would be long enough to eliminate abuse by RMT - and also if a pattern was seen (i.e. on for a day, off for 90, on for a day, etc) it should be easily identifiable as abuse by RMT)

EDIT: credit to Griss for inspiration

[Saiph]

How about this? SE recommend new servers for the old ones so if you want to keep all your firend ls and all you just join the recomended server while anyone who wnats to change for whatever reason joins another one?

EXAMPLE

server 1 = Selbina
server 2 = Gysahl
server 3 = cornelia + wutai
server 4 = figaro + bodhum
server 5 = mysidia + karnak
server 6 = kashuan + palamecia
server 7 = trabia + melmond
server 8 = fabul + istory
server 9 = besaid + saronia
server 10 = Lindblum + rabanastre (recomended for europe)

wouldnt that be a almost perfect solution? almost like solution 2 from yoshi but still without revealing the severnames so everyone rushes for favorite servers?

SE just need to make an official lodestone post for it.

[Leela]

Poll till now:

A + B⇒A World to merge with B World
12% (12)

A + B - X ⇒A World to merge with B World, except people that would like to move are able to choose a different World
72% (73)

A + B - C ⇒A World to merge with B World, except people that would like to move are able to choose to go to C World
1% (1)

Prepare 10 Worlds, set a limit, and give everyone the power to move their characters to a World of their choice.
15% (15)

Total votes: 101

[Zoltan]

I'll tell you why I object to option 4 so much.

When I moved from FFXI tto FFXIV my old linkshell chose to go to Lindblum server. I chose Bodhum because Lindblum was full. I incorrectly assumed that they'd surely allow transfers like they did in FFXI.

If they implement their Plan Four I will have no idea where the Lindblum people went.

I also want to avoid most people on the Besaid server. (That's a joke).

It's not just about migrating to a server where your linkshell moves. It is about destroying every server.

I really enjoyed recognizing people on my server and knowing some people's playing style and reputations. Whether they were my "friend" or just someone that I recognized their name it is a community. Their justification for not keeping ANY server populations together is reprehensible. It is really a very bad business practice to intentionally ignore your customers.

Hopefully they change their mind and revise their plan.

[Saiph]

I'll tell you why I object to option 4 so much.

When I moved from FFXI tto FFXIV my old linkshell chose to go to Lindblum server. I chose Bodhum because Lindblum was full. I incorrectly assumed that they'd surely allow transfers like they did in FFXI.

If they implement their Plan Four I will have no idea where the Lindblum people went.

I also want to avoid most people on the Besaid server. (That's a joke).

It's not just about migrating to a server where your linkshell moves. It is about destroying every server.

I really enjoyed recognizing people on my server and knowing some people's playing style and reputations. Whether they were my "friend" or just someone that I recognized their name it is a community. Their justification for not keeping ANY server populations together is reprehensible. It is really a very bad business practice to intentionally ignore your customers.

Hopefully they change their mind and revise their plan.

how do you know they are on lindblum?

[Reinheart]

From my translation thread copy/paste http://goo.gl/PRXN4

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This one is pretty important announcement/update from YoshiP regarding server merge so going to translate this one before I start work for you guys, pretty sure Bay & Rikku will post translated one for sure.

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
Producer/Director Yoshida here,

皆さん、多数のポストありがとうございます。
全リージョンの関連するスレッドにも目を通させて頂いています。
今回の件については、コミュニティ全体に対して、非常に大きな動揺を与えてしまい、申し訳なく思っています。
Thank you for many comments/posts.
I have looked through related threads in all region; I apologize for causing a major stir to the community with this issue.

現状、開発/運営チームでは、非常にフィードバックの多い②案を更に調整し、
④案のメリットも生かしたものにできないか、
皆さんのフィードバックを参考にさせて頂きつつ、検討を重ねています。
技術的な確認事項、スケジュールの確認もあるため、恐縮ではありますが、
このまま週末に突入し、週明けまでお時間を頂けると助かります。
We are currently looking into making it possible to go by plan #2 which received many feadbacks and keep the merit from plan number 4. We need to check and verify the technical side and schedule so please give us until beginning of next week.

トピックスについては、一時取り下げも検討しましたが、
仕様が見えなくなると、話し合いの際に、内容齟齬の可能性があるため、
少なくとも週明けまでは、このままとさせていただきます。
We thought of bringing down the topic on the topics section but if we take it down when people talk about this there might be issue where wrong information is given so we would like to keep it at least till beginning of next week.

繰り返しにはなりますが、現段階で非常に大きな懸念の声を挙げられている方が、
多数いらっしゃる中で、ワールド統合を強行するつもりはありませんので、
その点は重ねてご理解頂けますよう、宜しくお願い致します。
This is repeating what was mentioned before but at current timing there are few saying we are forcing this server merge but please understand that we are not.

Regarding server merge - have it where they give us info on how many people are planned on going into each server.

もうひとつ、できるなら上限の予定数も発表して欲しいです。
多いなら多いで焦らずに済みます。そんなに少ない上限数ではないと思っています。
If possible would like to announce the planned max number (# of players on each server)

はい、その予定でしたし、数時間おきに各ワールド希望者の人数は更新してお知らせする仕組みを開発中でした。 これは案②を選択したとしても、同様にするつもりです。
Yes this was already planned, we were developing a function where we announce how many players were requesting for each world every few hours. Even if plan 2 was used we were planning to do this.

There is some user posts after also asking for devs to make it so they can also display how many players are in the servers from each region as well - no response on this one yet though.

[Dragonheart]

thank you god.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

My immediate reaction when I first read about the four plans was "why didn't they choose option2" It was the best way to keep everyone together while still allowing people the choice to do what they want, don't know why he didn't decide this one to begin with.