Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
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.
The logical flaw in this is that servers "would fill up quickly". It begs the question of what the actual limit of the number of players per server actually is. Are they migrating to the "new" servers at the same time or just combining servers?

If Square Enix chose to merge less populated servers with more populated servers before allowing transfers, there wouldn't be a problem.

Was any thought given to indicating which servers were preferred servers for distinct timezones?

Forcing everyone to lose their friends / social lists and migrating those who miss the transfer window is even worse.

Do they really expect us to believe that named servers actually influence the choice people make when they pick a server and that server fills up because of the name? When I moved from FFXI to FFXIV, most of my linkshell chose Lindblum, but that server was full, so I picked a different server. I would not have chosen to move to a server named "Fairy", but did other servers really fill up because of their server name or out of chance that some linkshells picked that server to transfer to?

Maybe they need to listen to their customers more.