[Translated with Google]: So here my two cents and I must say I am angry and disappointed with the concept.

Before Quick question : Does the "European" world-10 will run on a server somewhere in Europe? So practically it should solve the lag / delay problem for Europeans? Or is this world on a server in Japan like the others?

Servermerge is urgently needed. At Trabia there are like 200 - 700 players online simultaneously, with at least 100 in Uldah standing around and idling. The distribution of countries can be imagined as follows: 70% Japanese / Asians and 30% of the rest of the world.

But what SE gives us as Servermerge is simply not acceptable! If you don't have an active char in March, you'll be separated from your friends. Whether there are friends out of the game, from linkshell or private friends. Who is going to reactivate his account in May / June will not be able to play with his friends! In other words, SE demands 10€ for activating our char now, so we can chose a server...

And it seems like there is no problem for SE that some players must/may change their Charnames at Servermerge. Why is this option denied to players who have been long and active here?
-> If you want to change your Charname, simply disable this char now. Creat a new one with same name on another server and wait until 30th March. Then reactivate the old char and you will be prompted to change his name. For this method you can't play about 30 days with this Char => so name change will cost € 10!

If Linkshell1 decides to go to world1 and Linkshell2 go to world2, I have to chose where to go. Do I (or a few friends) have no active Char, we end up somewhere. Just not together!


-> tl, dr:
- Server merge has to come, but in no case as described by SE.
- Inactive Players can not simply be packed somewhere.
- Changing the Charnamens should be possible for all.

They should move the Servermerge by 2 weeks back and use the time to create a different concept. I've never played FFXI, but world1 (many players) + world.2 (a few players) = New World would the easiest.