Please be Careful about the Labels used during Server Transfer

[Rubicon]

Perhaps in order to counteract the lag issues, Yoshi-P is thinking about giving the servers physical locations in NA and the EU as well as JP.

It would certainly help EU and NA players to know which servers are closest to them when choosing.

THIS. It doesn't need to be segregated by language but by ping. It somewhat kills two birds with one stone and then quell the inevitable "The Japanese got my pop cause their latency is less than mine!!".

[Maxthunder]

What SE needs to do is for now do a forced merger. Players should not that the choice of what server they want to go to. Even when 2.0 comes how SE needs to go back to letting the servers choose what world you will be on. What people dont understand is if it is 1 region that is on that server is that the peak time will be same time everyday vs a global server peak times will vary, and there will always be players to play w no matter the time you come on. Also if SE segragates the servers what dose that actually tell players? I enjoy playing with everyone from all over and to me this option is bad idea. Leave all servers global, do not give players the choice of servers as of yet, that is something best left till the game is a few years old. Take low population servers merge them to one server again no choices. If players still want to go to another server charge them a fee to do this.

[Davorok]

Well...you know...it could be that JP, GR & FR players don't want to play with "Ugly Americans"? Perhaps it is they who are asking for Labeled/Segregated servers?

Personally, I prefer playing with non-English speaking peeps because Americans shout/say some pretty stupid sh*t in game and it gets annoying and breaks my "Immersion" in the game. ;>P (#1 reason why I disliked WoW & SWToR is just as bad)

Sure, JP, GR & FR probably say some pretty stupid sh*t too but since I can't tell what they're saying, it doesn't bother me. ;>)

[Toxsik]

Yeah NO Server Labels.

AND:

My only concern with server merging is that after 1.19 US prime-time hours were unplayable to me because of ridiculous server lag. Maybe increase server capacity. Example server capacity is 4000 only allow 3500 players on that server would make it way better. (numbers are just for example to show a definite ratio)

[Naylia]

Why does Lindblum have to be strictly Japanese? are we a low population server? it does not seem like it. dont touch lindblum

Nope, we're higher population. One of the threads did a post your current pop thing and we were the highest at that time (mid-day NA, pre-primetime)

[GreyJorildyn]

This thread is a joke right?

Servers should be organized into regions by timezone. There should be servers slotted for JST, GMT, EST, PST, and any other popular ones. This would have the effect of also removing some of the language barrier issues that currently exist.

You can't find players in your timezone all the time because no server encourages people from a certain timezone to create characters there.

This is the same problem the rest of the game's progression aspects have. No direction for new players. They're simply left in the dark about what the difference between Besaid and Figaro server is. If you were a new player trying this game out now, wouldn't you want to know where the most people in your timezone are server-wise? If you answer "no" to this question, you're either in denial or a SE-white knight.

[ninesunz]

How would they go about doing that? If they wanted it split perfectly three ways like that then they would have to tear apart the current population.

"Oh, you're from Germany? We need more Europeans in a different server so say goodbye to all your linkshell friends forever. "

Not a viable idea in the slightest, sorry.

pertaining to server transfer, not to reallocate the servers.

[Xenor]

I wish Yoshi would make another announcement on the matter.