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

[Jinko]

this will be a very important month for people to be susbscribed during, lest they get tossed to a random server when they return to the game

If SE require you to sub to change server they are more stupid than I thought.

[Koku]

As said before this is only the initial merge... A lot of you seem to be thinking about what's in front of you instead of down the road. Come 2.0 a lot is going to change which will more than likely include a way to freely transfer servers after a population stabilization.

Right now our community is already scattered..

SE has always been vague on information regarding the future of anything. However, if you are p2p you see the light at the end of the tunnel. So look to the future.. not the now.

[Delsus]

If SE require you to sub to change server they are more stupid than I thought.

I believe the thinking on SE's part is to allow people who want to try 1.21 out will beable to choose where they go, but people who have no intention of paying until closer to 2.0 and have deactivated characters will be randomly assigned a server.

And people talking about people deciding to wait till 2.0 could loose thier friends, I would imagine (pure speculation) new characters made after 2.0 will be able to choose servers because its not the PS3 players fault they cant play now and I will seriously hate it if my rl friends and friends I met on FFXI that are waiting for the PS3 release werent on my server because a random number generator chose for them.

[Belial]

I think all former XIV players should come back once server transfers commence and fill all 10 servers... just for lulz.

[Zoltan]

What is really alarming is the fact that they have no concept of what MMOs are all about. It is about the relationships that you form with friends online.

Why they just don't merge servers now and then allow people to change servers later is assinine.

Why only label one server as German/French. What about an Italian server? What about a French Canadian server?

Why they don't designate which servers are RP is inconcievable. Surely they must realize that there are RP players and non-RP players?

Why not name the final server names now? Is that so difficult?

Do they have anyone on their staff that worked on FFXI? They handled server mergers much more efficiently than their new plan.

There are much smarter MMOs out there. They actually provide PvP, PvE, RP and time zone labels on servers when you choose which server to start on.

They claim that they want to be competitive in the MMO market, yet their ignorance of how to properly handle server designation is alarming.

[Veltaine]

why the hell not break it up and rearrange the pieces to fit into new slots.. taking a smaller server and putting them in a bigger one wouldnt help the new players.. theyd be in a world established by all the veterans there and pretty much be shafted cuz itd be the original world still and new players tryin to make a yeahhh that

doesnt even look good in writing

weve supported the game this long, lets jumble it up and have some fun, i cant wait to meet all you new ppl

[Delsus]

Why only label one server as German/French. What about an Italian server? What about a French Canadian server?

The only languages officially supported are EN, JP, FR and GE so they can only officially have those languages for servers.

Why not name the final server names now? Is that so difficult?

Agree with this completly

Do they have anyone on their staff that worked on FFXI? They handled server mergers much more efficiently than their new plan.

They did, infact a large amount of the origanal dev team was from FFXI, but they all got moved after they failed.

[Skies]

Why only label one server as German/French. What about an Italian server? What about a French Canadian server?

I do believe that SE has the intent of making every server global, however they went and saw that the German and French communities are substantially small so they marked one as 'preffered' for them just to give those people some guidelines if they want to stick with their countrymen, because they are very few.

[NefarioCall]

They claim that they want to be competitive in the MMO market, yet their ignorance of how to properly handle server designation is alarming.

^^Again, this seems to be SE's biggest deboccle with FFXIV yet. ...which is saying something.

[Davorok]

Character Transfers offer everyone choices.

Server Merges offer no one choices.