Server Mergers

[FrogDog]

I'm curious what is the general opinion of merging servers among the community here?

I recently transferred off of Balmung to Mateus, and it's like a completely different (and depressing) game. Like, this transfer was hands down the worst decision I ever made in this game and there are no take backs now. If I didn't still have a character I could go back to on Balmung, this would be enough for me to quit the game over, but as it is, I feel like my main is effectively dead besides weekly raids.

I know Balmung gets a lot of flak but it has a level of activity that should really be the norm on every server. Hunts are busy, chat is active,the market is good, zones have plenty of people running around in them - it's alive in short.

[Lexia]

Balmung is the way it is cause it way overpopulated it has 2,3 maybe even 4 times the amount other servers have.

[Tigerlilley]

Balmung is the way it is cause it way overpopulated it has 2,3 maybe even 4 times the amount other servers have.

Lel, it's not that excessive.

Here are some numbers posted literally today about server population.

OP, Mateus is a smaller server. Maybe have a look through at the first comment and try one of the larger ones instead?

Reddit link

[FrogDog]

Balmung is the way it is cause it way overpopulated it has 2,3 maybe even 4 times the amount other servers have.

Hence, the topic.

As far as being overpopulated, it's only really an issue during launch windows. The population stabilizes, the queues go away, but the server is still busy. Balmung's activity really isn't any different than the amount of people you'd see running around in GW2 at any given time either.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Hence, the topic.

As far as being overpopulated, it's only really an issue during launch windows. The population stabilizes, the queues go away, but the server is still busy. Balmung's activity really isn't any different than the amount of people you'd see running around in GW2 at any given time either.

GW2 uses Megaservers so population is never a problem. Here however servers are contained in the open world, only instances allow cross world interactions.

[Lissandra]

Isn't this what the incentives with transferring are for? It might not be enough to entice everyone, but it's definitely enticed some people.

[DevilsDontFly]

If you transferred just to play the game on fight/general content, there's always other servers that are not Balmung that have a decent population. I don't know if Mateus is the "new roleplaying" server for Ex-Balmungers, but if it's not, and roleplay is not your main focus, all you need is some research to know how well populated some other servers are and transfer again. Only Balmung and Gilga are closed anyways on Aether.

[MistakeNot]

Unless they do major changes in how servers are set up, etc. I'd say server merges are out of the question for now.

Many servers are quite full - to the point where they have been declared congested and you can't get into them if you aren't already there. SE is currently trying to get people to move away from those servers and onto less populated ones.

Server merges are usually done when overall population gets too low. Right now FFXIV has rather the opposite problem, so new servers are more likely than merges.

[Moonlite]

Unless they do major changes in how servers are set up, etc. I'd say server merges are out of the question for now.

Many servers are quite full - to the point where they have been declared congested and you can't get into them if you aren't already there. SE is currently trying to get people to move away from those servers and onto less populated ones.

Server merges are usually done when overall population gets too low. Right now FFXIV has rather the opposite problem, so new servers are more likely than merges.

First part you get a cookie. For a company that had an MMO and a design team that is supposedly gamers. They have not designed this in anyway to make merges as painless as possible.

Second part not so much. If you look at unofficial numbers pre free transfer. About 5 should have been merged. Considering what population numbers were and if a server got locked or was considered a destination. Again I admit the math is a little wonky since it tracks characters and not accounts.

[Tigerlilley]

To be honest, I think the way housing is set up means server mergers are almost impossible. I remember reading about the Korean servers being merged and it meant that one whole world lost their housing.