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

[AreeyaJaidee]

As a customer since CE and a paying customer since P2P, they need to step up there customer service, this is bull and the people who are for it, mustn't see the other side that others are speaking from...

and yes we do have time to prepare, why should we tho? we have our damn community.. we all would love a merger, but at the expense of possibly losing friends is pretty lackluster specially since our *Bond* with community is so important, but they are all for easily tearing our community apart.. F That!!

How are you losing friends?

If you didn't talk to them and plan to regroup then how good of friends were you in the first place?

I think ppl are confusing "acquaintance" with "friends that legitimately care"

[KumaAkuma]

There are 4 community servers forums for each world I think and most people don't read them.

[elreed]

i think everyone is taking this too serious, just talk to your friends, go to the same place and if you cant, make new friends.

problem solved

[Kyri]

Huh?! I suppose that as many of us he plays because he likes the game, but he also knows that it still needs a lot of improvements. He just gave his opinion about this important matter. Don't mistake complain with critiques.

Your right im not here to upset anyone and I am indeed glad he enjoys the game, however perhaps i am just seeing a grumpy day on his behalf and I find it slightly rude to siggy in something that isn't ment to be nice at all. My comment was on a various amount of posts on various forums hes browsing that I am. Had I the opportunity to send a Pm I would have. No I don't have a problem with you Colino, though I do disagree with you.


To Zoltan: Why do you think im a black kettle makes me sad ; ;

[AreeyaJaidee]

Ah yes, I am indeed lazy because I don't have the capability to convince 200+ people to move to an arbitrary server I picked because I wanted to.

Are you serious?

And you know and need all 200 of those ppl? Are YOU serious? What are you compensating for?

List every single 200 names in this thread: first and last name

You won't because like many others you're over exaggerating this entire thing

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Reasoning still stands: they gave us options. All ppl are bitching about now is " you mean I have to put effort into contacting my friends and organizing a new LS?!"

Seriously on Lindblum LSes are always reforming for one reason or another. Besides theres no achievement for having the longest established LS without reforms.

It's all laziness.

SE is letting us all decide if we want to switch or not.

There's two sides to every coin: maybe some ppl WANT to change servers just to meet new ppl. Well this way at least both sides get the option.

SE is trying to compliment both needs.

And yes there's a varietable amount of ways this can be done and yes these forums are for player feedback, but the majority of posters are downright crying and bitching like little children. How is that "constructive criticism"? It's just plain belligerence. There's nothing "constructive" about the way most ppl are presenting their concerns.

You're assuming that communities are as bad as yours and they are not. Believe it or not there are some servers that have linkshells that generally get along among their selves and get along with other linkshells.

My complaint is that the most logical answer wasn't presented to us the first time. Instead, they give the worst then they get a back lash and suddenly have to eat s#$%. My constructive criticism would be that they are not making intelligent base options for handling their player base and that should worry them.

[HiirNoivl]

I don't see where they specified the manner in which the feedback is given. But I would like to know how someone could do a better server merger. Like Yoshi mentioned: Each option has pros and cons.

What I see right now is: "OMG all my friends are scattering" right beside the posts that say "OMG everyone is sticking together anyway." Some people will stick and some people will drift off. There are some players who will have to pick which friends they like the most because their friends are splitting up on different servers.

But that's their choice. Everyone here has a choice. Yoship even made sure that the non-subscribers will have a choice to move in 2.0. So if you don't like where people are going during the merge, take it up with them, not Yoshi.

[SynysterBlitz]

How are you losing friends?

If you didn't talk to them and plan to regroup then how good of friends were you in the first place?

I think ppl are confusing "acquaintance" with "friends that legitimately care"

Acquaintances can easily turn into a friendship.. or am I mistaken???

[Gramul]

IM ALSO IN 7 LINKSHELLS THAT HAS 100 MEMBERS EACH AND WE MAY BE SEPARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATED."

It's not an invalid complaint.

Reasoning still stands: they gave us options. All ppl are bitching about now is " you mean I have to put effort into contacting my friends and organizing a new LS?!"

Seriously on Lindblum LSes are always reforming for one reason or another. Besides theres no achievement for having the longest established LS without reforms.

It's all laziness.

SE is letting us all decide if we want to switch or not.

There's two sides to every coin: maybe some ppl WANT to change servers just to meet new ppl. Well this way at least both sides get the option.

SE is trying to compliment both needs.

And yes there's a varietable amount of ways this can be done and yes these forums are for player feedback, but the majority of posters are downright crying and bitching like little children. How is that "constructive criticism"? It's just plain belligerence. There's nothing "constructive" about the way most ppl are presenting their concerns.

That's what makes option 2 so great.

"We're merging servers A and B into Z, but you can be in server Y which is C and D combined if you want"

It gives you both direction and freedom. And I don't understand the reasoning behind not choosing it over 4.

With option ②, players will be given the option to transfer to another World. However, if there ends being too many players who would want to transfer over to that World, it might end up going over the set capacity and overflow the World. Since we won’t know the results would be like until the actual we see the actual results, we would end up taking a huge risk.

So many other games have done this before without any problems. Why is this a "huge risk" for FFXIV?

In addition, if a player belongs to multiple communities, they might end up being torn apart by having to decide which community they will follow (probably not be as bad as ④).

Then why did you choose 4?!

I personally was deciding between option ② and option ④ until the last minute and finally decided to go with option ④.

the last minute and finally decided to go with option ④.

the last minute

...Yoshi.

[Coombah]

I like Option 1!