Korean Server Merges

[Voltyblast]

I'm not surprised really: for one thing this means less expenses to run the servers and considering a lot of EU, NA and JP servers are pretty much barren (Glad I chose Balmung I guess, thanks .Hack for your guidance), I wouldn't be surprised if this happens here someday. Unless SB ramps the numbers back where ARR was (Aren't we at like 500k and less, basically half from what we had during ARR?), this might be an inevitable change.

I mean unlike "The Worst MMORPG of all time" (because saying its name is as bad as commiting a crime. Apparently) which can allow itself to run many servers at once because of its "millions" of players (I don't know how many, but it's high enough that merges aren't happening), FFXIV can't afford such a thing since that it has MUCH less, to the point where people can't even find enough players to play within their own servers. Heck even if I'm in Balmung I still can't find the stuff I want in PF either, and it's a populated one!

Either way, I am looking forward for the CR PF because I want to complete the trials before expansion hits and since it is nearly impossible for me right now, I'm putting all my hopes into the new feature.

....but I have a feeling it will disappoint in some ways....

[JunseiKei]

I'm sorry you lack basic human compassion. You take whatever you want to take from my OP. I guess since it's not happening to us, who cares. Back to discussing the important stuff, like half-naked bosses.

You assume I lack any at all. Just like I couldn't care what laws get passed in other countries, regardless if they are amazing or incredibly terrible, I can't care what's happening on another server. I'm just saying, but please don't feel sorry for me.

I like how a few other people are echoing what I said, yet I'm receiving flack and passive-aggressive statements for it; must be because I said something first or people just don't like how blunt I was about it. I'm just a little sad and quite amused. Oh well, that's life.

[Paladinleeds]

It sucks, but it is what it is. I'm going to assume the companies involved in the Korean version of FFXIV are for-profit companies. In which case, if the population is declining, this is a very normal thing to happen. They have to cut costs somewhere. Does it suck? Yes. But it's clear they believed they could get away with it. I do feel for those who have invested a LOT into the house which is now gone without a trace, but at the end of the day, we don't own these pixels, we only pay for access to them. If it happens here, well, it'll suck, but what can you do about it. Hopefully they can re-code the housing infrastructure, maybe convert them into instanced neighbourhoods? Where it creates them dependent on need. Though I do say individual instanced houses are best. At least stick that in for the new areas (so if a server merge does happen, just chuck all the old houses that get lost into the new area so they at least still have them).

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And let's not forget some disabilities that make it harder or even impossible to feel empathy/compassion.

EDIT: Oh jeez, just realised I necro'd by accident. Should have checked the timestamp of the last post, got my threads mixed up...

[Ash_]

How hard would it be for them to just change the unique identifier key in the database for each housing ward so they could all exist on the new server. So if the current key is say for my house is something like Mist10Sub37 in the database, in a merge all they would have to do is add a server prefix at the beginning or on the end i.e. Mist10Sub37AS using Asura as an example.

I know... logic... how dare I.

[Reap00]

This thread is helping me sleep. Thank you.