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

[Kraggy]

I still have read nothing in all Yoshi's waffle which says WHY a merger and destruction of the current servers is needed.

YES, I KNOW some folks feel 'their' server is empty, so LET THEM TRANSFER themselves somewhere else. Nothing in all he's said explains his desire to completely destroy the existing communities and re-build for the [minority?] who are unhappy with the population on the world they're currently playing on.

I have a lot of respect for Yoshi and how he's undertaken his role since he took over, but on this subject, given that the current game only has about around 9 months to live I think he's dead wrong.

[Answa]

I still have read nothing in all Yoshi's waffle which says WHY a merger and destruction of the current servers is needed.

YES, I KNOW some folks feel 'their' server is empty, so LET THEM TRANSFER themselves somewhere else. Nothing in all he's said explains his desire to completely destroy the existing communities and re-build for the [minority?] who are unhappy with the population on the world they're currently playing on.

I have a lot of respect for Yoshi and how he's undertaken his role since he took over, but on this subject, given that the current game only has about around 9 months to live I think he's dead wrong.

Because there are people that are not able to enjoy the game as it is intended. Nothing is getting destroyed. They're getting integrated.

[Soukyuu]

The character that was created earliest (based on creation timestamp) will retain the name. All other characters with the same name will have to choose a new name.

Clarification needed. Old plan also listed the requirement for the character to be active at the time of the merge. I'm not in danger of losing my name but losing your name to an inactive char kinda sucks.

I still have read nothing in all Yoshi's waffle which says WHY a merger and destruction of the current servers is needed.

Look at it like this: maybe there will be more than 10 people online in a shell, and maybe they will even be active and not just idling like it is now. Just look a CoM, you log in, see about 12 people online and no one responds.

[Rizon]

Apologies for the delay! Here is the second (and lengthier!) post from Yoshi-p

I still have read nothing in all Yoshi's waffle which says WHY a merger and destruction of the current servers is needed.

YES, I KNOW some folks feel 'their' server is empty, so LET THEM TRANSFER themselves somewhere else. Nothing in all he's said explains his desire to completely destroy the existing communities and re-build for the [minority?] who are unhappy with the population on the world they're currently playing on.

I have a lot of respect for Yoshi and how he's undertaken his role since he took over, but on this subject, given that the current game only has about around 9 months to live I think he's dead wrong.

■World Merge Concept ■

The main purpose of the World Merge is largely based on the idea of providing a suitable community size to all active and currently playing players for every bit of content. In other words, the goal is to make each World’s population adequate so that parties can be formed sufficiently in each time zone.

The important factor here is not the total number of active players (= number of characters), it is the amount of people from each time zone that can gather together.
Even if the number of active players is large, FFXIV is operated on global servers, so we need an environment that will allow players from each of the three time zones (Japan, North America, and Europe) to gather together.
(Though the total number of active characters for a world may seem the same, looking at it for each time zone, the number of peak players changes.) The facilitation of making each population the proper size is the main objective of this World Merge.

Sounds like an explanation to me.