Reassessing the Merger of FFXIV Worlds (02/13/2012)

[Elexia]

How do you know the merger and the update go hand in hand?

It generally tends to with Square, since sometimes they'd wait till after the merge (when servers are completely down) to push out the update so after a fresh merge you'll be able to fully enjoy the update.

It happened a few times with FFXI when a merge was on the ass of a major update.

[Estellios]

Due to people getting them to change the merge setup, it could potentially delay 1.21. While it won't affect 2.0, it will affect those playing and anticipating 1.21.

All because people didn't want to communicate outside of the game/forum...sigh.

Really don't think this will be the case since the merges are happening like a month after 1.21 is planned to arrive.

also @ Marx there is going to be a server transfer service when 2.0 gets here. That's why I was fine with the Merge plan we were getting already because, let's not kid ourselves, anyone who isn't playing/trying out the game after 1.21 hits and able to sign up for transfers wouldn't be playing until 2.0 anyway.

[Cthulhu]

I think the idea was to have the merger come right after 1.21 so everyone checking out jobs would be aware of the upcoming merge and be able to participate under the same resub. With them making changes to the merge either it could delay the merge itself or push 1.21 back even a bit more.

[Elexia]

Really don't think this will be the case since the merges are happening like a month after 1.21 is planned to arrive.

also @ Marx there is going to be a server transfer service when 2.0 gets here. That's why I was fine with the Merge plan we were getting already because, let's not kid ourselves, anyone who isn't playing/trying out the game after 1.21 hits and able to sign up for transfers wouldn't be playing until 2.0 anyway.

Exactly, this is why option 4 was perfectly fine because as you said, people who aren't playing now didn't want to (basically) or waiting for 2.0 PS3, which you could easily shift servers then.

People mainly complained for the sake of people who don't even play.

[Dragon]

I'm going to post for a second time what i read from someone else in the first place.

if you were in favor of the original plan, you obviously have no friends in this game.

I will add, they don't have to be good friends either, they are just the people you and i have been playing with since launch. They are a kind of family and that these connections we make, no matter how small, do matter. Knowing as i did in FFXI, that many of the same people i met in 2004 on that game, i still crossed paths with once in a while in 2010. If you really hate em all that much, hopefully there's a world transfer service for you and better luck next time.

Cool story bro.

Apparently I have no friends because I didnt QQ over the original post? I admit I like 2 a hell of a lot more but that's very childish to assume anyone okay with devs choices is a loaner who doesn't like anybody.

Yeah, apparently you and I can't be friends because neither us were against the 4th option.

[Gramul]

It generally tends to with Square, since sometimes they'd wait till after the merge (when servers are completely down) to push out the update so after a fresh merge you'll be able to fully enjoy the update.

It happened a few times with FFXI when a merge was on the ass of a major update.

Well as I recall, the update was scheduled for late Febuary and the merger was to happen in early March.

I don't know if that means the update was originally delayed till early March, but I'm not too worried about it. I'd rather it be of little inconvenience as possible to the player base, including those taking a hiatus, and be late than be on time and riddled with unusual design choices that don't mesh well with traditional game design.
Much like how the game was released in the first place.

Besides, 2 is apparently easier to do than 4 according to Yoshi himself.

[Chinook]

Too much disinformation at once.

Head explodes.

[Marx]

also @ Marx there is going to be a server transfer service when 2.0 gets here. That's why I was fine with the Merge plan we were getting already because, let's not kid ourselves, anyone who isn't playing/trying out the game after 1.21 hits and able to sign up for transfers wouldn't be playing until 2.0 anyway.

A server transfer service would fix my only issue with option 4. thanks for the info ^-^

[Estellios]

Well as I recall, the update was scheduled for late Febuary and the merger was to happen in early March.

I don't know if that means the update was originally delayed till early March, but I'm not too worried about it. I'd rather it be of little inconvenience as possible to the player base, including those taking a hiatus, and be late than be on time and riddled with unusual design choices that don't mesh well with traditional game design.
Much like how the game was released in the first place.

Besides, 2 is apparently easier to do than 4 according to Yoshi himself.

1.21 is supposed to land late Feb. In the old server merge plans, we were meant to designate the server we wanted early to mid March, with the actual merges happening right at the end of March. Really doubtful this will affect 1.21, but with this method of merging being supposedly easier I would really really really be happy if the merge date came sooner.

[NefarioCall]

When you kind of insinuate people have no friends because they didn't cry about something...yeah the rest of your post is pretty meaningless lol.