World Merger? who will make the cut

[viion]

I guess my question to you Viion is:

After this is said and done will there be exactly the same number of servers or is there a chance that some servers are going to be axed because they cannot reach the numbers they want to across all servers?

If he is aiming for higher numbers in servers and a merge is require then mathematically it is impossible to achieve the numbers without reducing the servers. Yes.

So some will get axed, but we will all get a choice, as we are all active, we dont have to worry about the combined servers. All ones who dont choose could even make up a whole server on their own, maybe?

It is a tough situation, some members here have expressed discouragement of the labelling of servers but if he wants EU with EU and NA with NA etc, I think that is something they will have to do.

Create new server names, with a label, let anyone choose, then the servers that dont choose will be merged with another server that more reflects their timezone, so if lindblum is most active during NA timezone, then the people who did not pick a server will be auto merged into a new server that is labelled NA.

Just a thought.

But he did say that it will not be a merge A to B, so what else can it be ?

We know
1. Low populated server players can pick a new server.
2. He will not be doing a full A + B = C merge.

When he does speak of "Details" i think we will know more on what is going to happen, but I think those 2 objectives are set in stone.

[AmbrosiaAmor]

Yeah pretty much in agreement with Chief Currahee and what you just wrote Viion. I sort of skimmed around here about the regional servers but don't know a whole lot about it other than there have been quite a few people who have been pretty vocal with labeling it like you said and are not liking it at all. And yeah pretty much both of your views/options that may happen may be possibilities with the labeling etc. Hmmm to be honest I don't know how to take the whole thing with labeled NA/EU/JP servers in a Final Fantasy game. In other MMOs it is usually the norm to have it that way: regional servers.


I wonder if it is done if it will be optional throughout now till Version 2.0 comes out or if it may become mandatory later on? (For example if there is too much lopsidedness... meaning there is a moderate amount of JP folks but too little of NA or EU to spread out).

[Betelgeuzah]

Why separate NAEUJP? What's the benefit there?

[Rau]

Rabanastre and Lindblum would would make sweet love and give birth a new server.

[viion]

On Star Wars there are US and EU servers and you can pick whichever you like, I am in EU but I can pick US servers (though it recommends not to)

The difference here is though the EU servers are IN the EU, unlike SE where servers are in Japan and no where else, regardless of labels. So while other games do regionalise things, one reason is due to latency and what not.

I can understand a bit of the frustrations tho, some mmos dont allow this, you're limited to specific servers and one of XI and XIV selling points was "1 server all regions", and another could be the community effect, on Star Wars i joined an English EU Server, which are more popular than say the Germany or French ones, so a lot of them come to English one, but if they speak their home language and not English people tend to get very angry, which I'd like to not see on XIV.

Labelling solves issues for Yoshi, but not for us, allowing us to pick/choose with freedom and merge to best interest would be good for us, but maybe not for Yoshi

Bit like tug of war with server merging haha.

[Arcell]

Why separate NAEUJP? What's the benefit there?

They aren't going to. All Yoshida said is that people will be able to choose the server they go to so they can be on server with population more in their language/timezone if they choose.

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.

So all that says is that if EU players, as long as they are on a lower population server, want to gather on a specific server, they can designate which server they transfer to. That's all.