Servers are full. Grats JP/GMT players. NA = Screwed.

[Delsus]

Yes, lets put all the complainers on Ragnarok. That way you guys can choose any server you like. Oh, wait... you can't transfer either!

But hey, we shouldn't complain about it. We should let Square-Enix spoon-feed us a broken pile of shit, and then be happy with it. Lets even pay to play a game that is nothing more than a horrible mistake so far. But we should definitely make fun of anyone who raises an opinion that might offer even just a slight hint of possibly constructive criticism.

You sir, and every other fanboy on these boards like you are nothing more than a parasite. A cancer that is holding back the truth, which is that this game is fundamentally flawed (broken?) on nearly every level.

Imo, they should take all of your kind to Ragnarok, leave that server with the current state of the game, and never give it any updates. That way we can watch you all praise a shitty game. I would enjoy that.

trololololol.

All I have been saying is that SE GAVE US WHAT WE ASKED FOR, you just complain for the sake of complaining, if you had it your way we would never merge because you would complain at everything SE offered.

And btw I arent planning on moving, you are against this merge so you must have been for the previous method therefore you wouldnt mind being put on a random server, I didnt mind that the previous method because I was going to go with my LS anyway.

Having said that given the choice I would choose this method over the previous one, SE give us choices, we choose and everyone complains, all this complaining at everything SE does (even if its what people wanted) will make SE say f.u. you dont know what you want so we will tell you what you are getting. Perhaps I am a fanboy, but I have had complained at thing I didn't like before now, you see me defend one decicion and i'm a fanboy/white knight/butt kisser/whatever else you wanna say.

If you say you did prefer the previous merge method then you should have spoken up about it, which I know you didn't because I have just checked all your posts, infact all your posts are saying "this sucks, that sucks, RRRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGEEEEE!!!!" so yeah according you everything is crap but you still pay to troll the forums because obviously everything is that crap you can't be enjoying the game enough to play.

[viion]

The Vedis you dont have 2 weeks, you have until 12th because if your server that your on now is full your selection is final, which atm all are full so if things stay the way they are now, everyone is locked in on 12th.

[ThePatriarch]

I am about to post several paragraphs of nonsense. Please spare yourself. I fucking love Final Fantasy XIV, i wish SE would insert the game into my ractal cavity I love it so much. Fuck me I love it. So much.

I like it too, bro. Just not that much.

[Delsus]

I like it too, bro. Just not that much.

See what I mean, I agree with one thing and I want SE to ass rape me, I get you hate SE, you dont need to tell me again.

Look up what people were saying when the merge was first announced, you will know you are talking shit.

[KadeDoom]

Well you would think they would have open slots if they worried about the people that have actually already paid for a few months, and worry less about the millions of accounts connected to people that don't even play the game anymore. Active paying customers should come first, is the point. Right now some of the people that wanted to switch servers, have, but still there are quite a few that can not even get to that point. I know they say to refresh Lodestone periodically for slots to become available, but honestly it should be paying people first, then the rest as follows.

[darkstarpoet1]

Well you would think they would have open slots if they worried about the people that have actually already paid for a few months, and worry less about the millions of accounts connected to people that don't even play the game anymore. Active paying customers should come first, is the point. Right now some of the people that wanted to switch servers, have, but still there are quite a few that can not even get to that point. I know they say to refresh Lodestone periodically for slots to become available, but honestly it should be paying people first, then the rest as follows.

maybe you should read up on the matter. the inactive players do not affect how many people can get into the server according to yoshi. he said, yes, they are counted on the numbers, but they are not counted in as members towards how full your server is and whether or not people can transfer to it. if they did i'd imagine that every single active member could have fit on a single server and went from 18 down to 1.

i figure they are manually updating the numbers instead of automatically doing them due to they have to look at how many active people are on the server and not how many each server has total.

edit: if they don't count towards if your server is full or not, like yoshi stated, then how are the paying customers not given priority?

[Omidar]

Manually? Seriously? They can write FFXIV but can't program the appropriate cross-server queries to automate the process?

[KadeDoom]

if they didn't then there should be tons of open slots on every world. i just did a player search on Kashuan, and at this current time there is 317 players online 1-50 all areas, so take that on an average per server for NA time zones, total is 5706 current active players, for 18 servers, now your trying to tell me that if everyone online right now ave number of 5700 people tried to merge to 1 new world, there aren't enough slots open to accommodate that many players? How many slots are the new worlds holding is what needs to be addressed. If you go to ff14pro and search total players per server there is about 15,000+ accounts, so 2 worlds merged active or inactive would be 30k + accounts, into 1 new world. so saying inactive accounts aren't be calculated can not be true, because with active paying accounts, would probably be around 85% of the total accounts per server, and that is being generous since you know there is less then that actually still playing the game.

[NotApplicable]

They can write FFXIV but can't program the appropriate cross-server queries to automate the process?

FFXIV isn't the best example to use...

[darkstarpoet1]

if they didn't then there should be tons of open slots on every world. i just did a player search on Kashuan, and at this current time there is 317 players online 1-50 all areas, so take that on an average per server for NA time zones, total is 5706 current active players, for 18 servers, now your trying to tell me that if everyone online right now ave number of 5700 people tried to merge to 1 new world, there aren't enough slots open to accommodate that many players? How many slots are the new worlds holding is what needs to be addressed. If you go to ff14pro and search total players per server there is about 15,000+ accounts, so 2 worlds merged active or inactive would be 30k + accounts, into 1 new world. so saying inactive accounts aren't be calculated can not be true, because with active paying accounts, would probably be around 85% of the total accounts per server, and that is being generous since you know there is less then that actually still playing the game.

In response to a player asking whether active players already on a World take priority over players who requested a World Transfer to the World:

"Yes, that’s correct. Naturally player characters that were in that World originally will get first priority.

Inactive characters/non-subscribers are also counted, but they are not factored into the maximum limit of active characters allocated to each server. It’s hard to explain, but if you want to keep your character on the World you are currently on, then you don’t need to do anything (if there happens to be duplicate character names, we will ask you to make changes however). You needn’t worry as you are not going to get kicked out from the World automatically or be forced to move."


like i have stated before if anyone has seen anything that states this is no longer the case i'd be interested to see it. the quote above was bayone's translations of a yoshi post and he states incatives are not counted towards if the server is full or not.

edit: your numbers are also trying to say that those 317 players are the only active players that ever sign into that server. that is not the case at all. you may have 317 now, 500 later, and 1000 at a different time and zero of those numbers will be your total active population. total active population counts everyone that is paying for the game including the ones that only sign in once every few weeks. i only see a few 2-300 on karnak, but i know we have well over 1k actives because that few hundred is only the people that are on with us, but the jp playerbase is closer to 600 daily.