About the World Merge and Character Transfers (02/09/2012)

[SirOleas]

Can't please everyone...

And seems like peeps will rage whatever the case.

It's ok. I was told I was an epic paladin in another thread.

Or was that emotionless brick wall of white knighthood.....Sounds like Paladin still.

[Murugan]

Can't please everyone...

And seems like peeps will rage whatever the case.

What is your problem with Server Merge and then transfers for those who want it?

How does that not please everyone?

[Sidious]

What is your problem with Server Merge and then transfers for those who want it?

How does that not please everyone?

When you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one.

No really, they probably don't want to waste the effort on such a trivial (and it is trivial) issue.

[Murugan]

When you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one.

No really, they probably don't want to waste the effort on such a trivial (and it is trivial) issue.

So you got nothing? Except that pleasing everyone pleases no one.

It pleases people who want to stay with their community.
It pleases people who don't want to stay with their community.

I'm sorry so who is left not happy? What is the third group?

[Sidious]

So you got nothing? Except that pleasing everyone pleases no one.

It pleases people who want to stay with their community.
It pleases people who don't want to stay with their community.

I'm sorry so who is left not happy? What is the third group?

No one is saying your method wouldn't work. What we're saying is they haven't made it an option and probably won't, and we've gotten over it. You should too.

[Quesse]

This is an extremely fair way to manage the merges. Actually I wish that instead of choosing the same names they were picking 10 brand new server names. But naming them after selection is a pretty fair way. Server mergers are sucky so its good they could come up with a method that will remove any exclusivity from the result.

The only thing that sucks is that a Linkshell (or other group of people) could collude to pick a certain world to merge to and then announce a different world to the less savory members of their group in order to ditch them. I'm sure this will happen in some form and there will be a lot of QQing when people realize that they moved and none of their 'friends' are in the same world.

[Delsus]

This is an extremely fair way to manage the merges. Actually I wish that instead of choosing the same names they were picking 10 brand new server names. But naming them after selection is a pretty fair way. Server mergers are sucky so its good they could come up with a method that will remove any exclusivity from the result.

The only thing that sucks is that a Linkshell (or other group of people) could collude to pick a certain world to merge to and then announce a different world to the less savory members of their group in order to ditch them. I'm sure this will happen in some form and there will be a lot of QQing when people realize that they moved and none of their 'friends' are in the same world.

I partly agree with this in that they should have new names, you will still get people that flock to specific servers due to nostalgia, but people who arent long time FF fans might go somewhere else.

For example FF9 fans might go to a possible Zidane server, FFIV fans could go to a Kain server, FFVI fans would go to a Bartz server, FFVII fans will go to a cloud server (infact everyone will go to a Cloud server cos he has a big sword!!! (did that sound right?))

To be honest however they did it would make people rage, if they just did a 2 become one type merge people would rage that thier server was going.

[Babydoll]

So like...how do we go about changing our name with a mule =/

[Mychael]

So like...how do we go about changing our name with a mule =/

Character creation date takes priority. So nothing going here. I vastly prefer being able to keep a name I've had since launch to giving it up to someone who wanted my name for a mule. /shrug

Luckily, I'm named after a whiny 14-year-old, so I didn't have too much to worry about either way.

[Adlitim]

Can this never stop please? Now I can watch this instead of tv while crafting.