World Merger? who will make the cut

[Xahjk]

I heard there shall be a world merger taking place after the reinstatement of billing; is this confirmed?
And if so which servers will make the cut? I fear for Wutai, for i think many players stopped playing or switched severs when they realized Yuffie is not hidden in any of the bushes.

[KamikazeMan]

I think I read that it would be server transfers. Not mergers. That's IF the population drops too low.....and it will.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I'm thinking that all servers will get the axe.
Time for the great server migration of 2012!

[Rizon]

I heard there shall be a world merger taking place after the reinstatement of billing; is this confirmed?
And if so which servers will make the cut? I fear for Wutai, for i think many players stopped playing or switched severs when they realized Yuffie is not hidden in any of the bushes.

I do not remember reading anything about that. Probably missed it somewhere. btw I saw Yuffie Cerberus on Lindblum trying to form a social LS.

[Kaizlu]

Well, that took a while to find:

Hi, this is Producer/Director Yoshida here.

I understand your concern on the number of concurrent users.

Actually the world merge is currently in plan.

We will first analyze the number of players in the game after the billing service begins.
Based on that analysis, we will be running a simulation where the maximum concurrent access during the peak hours will become somewhere around 1500 to 2000 per World.
* The above number is provisional and not a finalized number.

And with the method on how the world merge will be done, it will not be done in a simple method where World A and World B will merge into a single new World.
In order for EU players to gather on the same server in a certain mass, we are planning to go with the method where the players from a World with a less population can designate the World they wish to transfer to.

With the details such as when and how it will be done, they will be announced once they are confirmed.
(I'm assuming that the next update should become available in mid-January.)

And here's the original translated post: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...787#post492787

[MicahZerrshia]

Yoshi I believe stated he would like to reduce the amount of servers so there are about 1500-2000 ppl on at peak hrs, but wouldnt confirm the exact numbers. He also I think was going to designate servers jp, na or eu in case ppl wanted to be in a more language friendly environment but you could choose which you wanted to go to. Not 100% sure but this is what I think I remembered reading.

My guess after billing this would leave us with maybe 3-5 servers and really idc which are make the cut and which do not since I can move to whichever I choose so I can choose to stay with the ppl I currently play with or not and with v2 we are all being moved to whole new servers anyway.

[MicahZerrshia]

Ah Kaizlu beat me to it by just a few seconds ^^

[viion]

It is a tough situation, it has unanswered questions weather its "freedom transfers" or "complete merge".

Either way, I hope I can some how get my besaid characters and Istory characters reunited!

[vax]

I don't know if the current state of FFXIV can handle more people (in case of a merge) i mean, wards are pretty full atm, kinda hard to set a retainer there, some camps are full a lot of time of the day, if it's hard now to find a camp to exp pt or coffer it will be kinda painful to do it after a merge.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Transfers I hope will happen sooner, rather than later. February I think would be the ideal target date, but that probably doesn't give them enough time to create tools and test the transfer. So It'll be more like April or May.

I think we'll have "forced" merge along with "elected" merge.

For the forced merege I think they will combine 2 low pop servers onto another server like this:

Besaid
--- + -----> = Bodhum
Cornelia

Fabul
--- + -----> = Figaro
Gysahl

Istory
--- + -----> = Karnak
Kashuan

Lindblum
--- + -------> = Melmond
Mysidia

Palamecia
--- + --------> = Rabanastre
Saronia

Selbina
--- + --------> = Trabia
Wutai

For the "elected" move any "blue" server can move to a designated "blue home" server and the "reds" to the "red home" server

*this is just an example, not my predictions of which servers will merge with each other*

** then i think they should rename the servers to FF main villian like they had in Alpha from FF1-6

Besaid -->
Bodhum ---> Garland
Cornelia-->

Fabul-->
Figaro ---> Emperor
Gysahl-->

Istory ---->
Karnak ------> Xande
Kashuan -->

Lindblum -->
Melmond ----> Golbez
Mysidia -->

Palamecia -->
Rabanastre ----> Exdeath
Saronia -->

Selbina -->
Trabia -----> Kefka
Wutai -->