Increase Server Capacity

[Ashren]

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You're neglecting Option C, the people who already have a large number of real life friends and school mates who are already playing on that server who are trying to get a few more friends and school mates into the game. Sure, if it's only one person with little or no ties to a server it's probably not that big a deal to ask them to transfer to a lesser population server, but what about when it's 10 or more people trying to get 3-4 people onto the server? Is it fair for all 10 of those people to have to shell out $18 each? What if they were from Australia and it's closer to $30 each?

Playing on a server for a long period of time, even if we assume you started with 2.0 and stuck to one server, is a serious investment for many. You become familiar with the server economy, you know the guild politics and you network, make friends, find people you are comfortable playing with. Most friends would just rather not play the game than make their friends start over and waste years of time and investment.

[Raist]

You're neglecting Option C, the people who already have a large number of real life friends and school mates who are already playing on that server who are trying to get a few more friends and school mates into the game. Sure, if it's only one person with little or no ties to a server it's probably not that big a deal to ask them to transfer to a lesser population server, but what about when it's 10 or more people trying to get 3-4 people onto the server? Is it fair for all 10 of those people to have to shell out $18 each? What if they were from Australia and it's closer to $30 each?

Not neglecting it... just had nothing to do with Luna's post, which was making the point about 1 person. And I did not restrict it to just the $18 transfer either, which is what you are arguing.

You are conveniently leaving out the option of rolling a new character on their server. My subscription allows me to have 1 character per server. You can roll a new character for FREE.

Did you not even ponder the point made later in the post... that if more people weren't digging in their heels insisting that the new players come to their server that it might eventually help to balance the population somewhat. Possibly even to the point that SE might loosen the reigns on character creation?

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Playing on a server for a long period of time, even if we assume you started with 2.0 and stuck to one server, is a serious investment for many. You become familiar with the server economy, you know the guild politics and you network, make friends, find people you are comfortable playing with. Most friends would just rather not play the game than make their friends start over and waste years of time and investment.

Again... rolling a new toon does not kill your access to all your progress on your current server. There are many players that already have multiple characters. I had friends in XI that did the same as well. It killed me when Neza's character got corrupted on Carbuncle and we lost it completely--restore failed. She was gone for months waiting for them to recover her account, but couldn't. While she was away, she started playing more with other friends on other servers and when she finally bit the bullet and rolled a new toon on Carby, we all busted our butts to help her rebuild.

That's what real friends do. If it's important enough... they find a way.