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

[AreeyaJaidee]

Um... they gave us options after the fact. This post I bet you was built upon and quickly released BECAUSE of the back lash, but making it seem like it was their plan all along. It doesn't make sense. Which usually means it is a lie. They could have just said, "Yeah, our bad. It wasn't a great option, you're right. You pick which option then"

Instead, they quickly release a statement making it seem that it was their plan to give us an option all along. If that were true, we'd get the options in the original front page post, but they didn't.

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.

[Colino]

It's all laziness.

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?

[SynysterBlitz]

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.

Maybe the linkshells you join have a tendency to break up, but Savepoint has been around since CE, and while yes we are currently viewing our options and contacting other shells and making sure our community stays together, its an inconvenience for nooooooooo reason.. thats what I think you are not understanding.. Option 1-3 are far superior and more affordable options but SE being SE has to think outside the box..

[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.

[SynysterBlitz]

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.

Areeya is on my server and we have a great tight nit community, Areeya just must be one of those outcasts(Hence why she/he is all for it )...

[Kyri]

Areeya is on my server and we have a great tight nit community, Areeya just must be one of those outcasts(Hence why she/he is all for it )...

I am on a great tight nit server but like the idea. I hope my friends don't think im a outcast

[SynysterBlitz]

I am on a great tight nit server but like the idea. I hope my friends don't think im a outcast

Nah you can be excluded from the outcast list .. Im just pissed cause option 1-3 wouldv'e saved soooo much frustration and actually probably made majority of people happy.. the people who are for option 4 are the small minority sadly...

[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.

[KumaAkuma]

Then why did you choose 4?!

...Yoshi.

Well it does seem he has had a fever for one and a half month now...

[Tupsi]

Well it does seem he has had a fever for one and a half month now...

Can the officials just post a vote thread or something and call it a day..? A thread where people can vote for either options 1-4 and leave a comment where as to why... .-.