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

[Murugan]

I don't understand? Why not tell all of your /friendlist to go to the same World? Seems like people are overreacting? If a world fills up, remember what SE said, you can STILL CHANGE your choice before switches occur. If a world fills up, merely tell your /friendlist that you can't get on, and have everyone apply to another, less populated server. EASY!

Because:

They don't all play right now, but are taking a break.
Maybe you have 2 friends, and so this is easy for you but some of us find the idea of coordinating everyone we like to play with onto one server especially when they are randomized to be absurd.

This is beyond even just offering server transfers, this is dumping everyone off of their server and saying "pick a number, and if you don't we are going to pick one for you".

They are destroying communities, and maybe yours sucks. But I like my linkshells and Selbina. They should have just merged the crappy servers into the better ones and then let the anti-socials/trolls/outcasts opt for a server transfer.

[BooBoo]

Why not just merge 2 servers in to 1 or something like that? like in FFXI you lost no one just meet new people, I have 8 linkshells there is now way I meet all my friends after merge... You SE just force me to choice with who I go and I don't like it MMORPG is all about play with friends... now I lost people who I know long time. Bad idea.