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

[neorei]

IMO they should let people choose their destination if they're active, the inactive people should choose once they activate their character again.

[Kyri]

I am going to look at my new strange ham sandwich with mustard and go hey, this looks neat and give it a try I think. On that note im picking server 7, its my lucky number^^ (however with my luck it will be named something absolutely horrid im sure ;P)

[Jinrya-Geki]

I would like to offer some insight into why we decided not to display the World names.

The operations and development teams held many internal discussions regarding how the Worlds were going to be merged. We discussed displaying the World names and allowing players to choose their destination and we also considered having some Worlds dissolved and merged into other existing worlds.

We did consider deciding on the World names beforehand, but the problem is that players often choose which World to go to based on its name (to be more specific, currently both Selbina and Gysahl are highly populated due to the popularity of the World names).

Therefore, when merging 18 servers into 10, you can imagine that there will be a rush to choose the Worlds that have popular names. These would fill up quickly and we would have to stop letting people in, and then it would end up being something of a lottery. Taking into consideration the time difference and what day etc, it was really hard to decide, but as we are making playing together as a community a priority, we have decided to hold back the World names and let people choose this way.

We are aware that some players may be frustrated at this, and we apologize for that but please try to understand our reasoning. We haven’t decided which World will get what name yet. For, things like drawing lots and other methods, we want to think about this separately.

Here is this from another thread.

Personally to me, doesn't this bring up the problem that Server 1 & 2, possibly3 will be filled almost instantly. Leaving the other servers have a medium to low population still?

[KumaAkuma]

I don't really understand the fairness arguement that it has to suck for everyone. I thought the reason for the server merger was that we needed servers with an increased population. By merging whole servers this is accompliced without touching the already exsisting communities. Why is this method unfair accoording to some people? Who is being treated unfair in this situation?

[SirOleas]

I don't really understand the fairness arguement that it has to suck for everyone. I thought the reason for the server merger was that we needed servers with an increased population. By merging whole servers this is accompliced without touching the already exsisting communities. Why is this method unfair accoording to some people? Who is being treated unfair in this situation?

People who are not being represented because everyone is ignoring them.

To be fair everyone has to have the same choices.
They want the EU players to be able to gather together on one server; so they allowed them to choose any server but suggested server 10.

Since they gave EU players the choice to select any server the also have to give everyone else that same choice or it's not fair to the rest of the community. Believe it or not that would have been complained about as well.

It's fair, it's just not what people want.

[Biggs]

I don't really understand the fairness arguement that it has to suck for everyone. I thought the reason for the server merger was that we needed servers with an increased population. By merging whole servers this is accompliced without touching the already exsisting communities. Why is this method unfair accoording to some people? Who is being treated unfair in this situation?

The 12 French speaking people on Mysidia being thrown together with the 5 French speaking people on Kashaun is a good example of how that wouldn't be fair to everyone if it was done that way. The way they have it outlined here at least gives people that speak the same a language in a seriously underpopulated game the chance to enhance their playing experience. I am mre than willing to bet your right now that the Japanese forums are lighting up with posts discussing making an unofficial japanese server as well. The explanation is right there in the initial post. At least, thats how I saw it.

[Treach]

I don't really understand the fairness arguement that it has to suck for everyone. I thought the reason for the server merger was that we needed servers with an increased population. By merging whole servers this is accompliced without touching the already exsisting communities. Why is this method unfair accoording to some people? Who is being treated unfair in this situation?

The people who are unsubscribed apparently. They are more concerned about making it fair to people who are probably never going to play this game again, rather than just going "herp derp, I CHOOSE YOU NUMBER 4" and telling everyone "herpity derp dur hurrr im going to server numba 4 guise huuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrpderp".

[Kyri]

I don't really understand the fairness arguement that it has to suck for everyone. I thought the reason for the server merger was that we needed servers with an increased population. By merging whole servers this is accompliced without touching the already exsisting communities. Why is this method unfair accoording to some people? Who is being treated unfair in this situation?

It's unfair to the people who want to be somewhere else. Not everyone likes where they are right now and adding people to it isn't going to fix it. let them go to a different server and realize its the same grass on both sides of the fence<3 Though I do agree to your point I just try to see a bigger picture. either way, someones up to get mad about it, no matter what they do. Im just a "the glass is always half full" kinda gal, so it would take a lot for me to complain with a game I personally have enjoyed a great deal with little to no complaints since oct 2010

*Quote above me:
Sorry but that's what people want. People want mergers of entire servers;*

I don't.
When did I choose this?

[Gramul]

It's unfair to the people who want to be somewhere else.

Like where? Random server number 3?
This is why I like the recommended server system. It gives everyone an idea of where to go, but if you're so intent on leaving your old community, you have the option to do so. Otherwise it's just the whole lot of us scrambling around trying to find out who to go with.

[KumaAkuma]

Yeah but people had the option to pick servers already at the start. Why is a do over needed? SE doesn't even want servers with one type of population. Except for the poor German and French speaking people;

It's fair, it's just not what people want.

Sorry but that's what people want. People want mergers of entire servers;