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

[TheRac25]

How about this? SE recommend new servers for the old ones so if you want to keep all your firend ls and all you just join the recomended server while anyone who wnats to change for whatever reason joins another one?

EXAMPLE

server 1 = Selbina
server 2 = Gysahl
server 3 = cornelia + wutai
server 4 = figaro + bodhum
server 5 = mysidia + karnak
server 6 = kashuan + palamecia
server 7 = trabia + melmond
server 8 = fabul + istory
server 9 = besaid + saronia
server 10 = Lindblum + rabanastre (recomended for europe)

wouldnt that be a almost perfect solution? almost like solution 2 from yoshi but still without revealing the severnames so everyone rushes for favorite servers?

SE just need to make an official lodestone post for it.

this ends up about the same as option 2, there is still the random forced move problem though

[Zoltan]

how do you know they are on lindblum?

Because they said that's where they planned to go to. I played FFXI with them for years and know that when they said something you could believe it.

[Rizon]

How about this? SE recommend new servers for the old ones so if you want to keep all your firend ls and all you just join the recomended server while anyone who wnats to change for whatever reason joins another one?

EXAMPLE

server 1 = Selbina
server 2 = Gysahl
server 3 = cornelia + wutai
server 4 = figaro + bodhum
server 5 = mysidia + karnak
server 6 = kashuan + palamecia
server 7 = trabia + melmond
server 8 = fabul + istory
server 9 = besaid + saronia
server 10 = Lindblum + rabanastre (recomended for europe)

wouldnt that be a almost perfect solution? almost like solution 2 from yoshi but still without revealing the severnames so everyone rushes for favorite servers?

SE just need to make an official lodestone post for it.

I am hoping that you are using the worlds as examples. I do not believe you have anymore insight to server populations then I do. Secondly, why should my server be designated the EU server? Why not a different server, such as.......Cornella?

[Arksniper]

I love how this new dev team actually pays attention to the community response. I have a feeling they annouced the merge so far in advance for this very reasons. Maybe SE is getting their PR act together?

[Elexia]

So this is option 2:

②A + B - X ⇒A World to merge with B World, except people that would like to move are able to choose a different World

So people cried about something becoming unbalanced..yet they're praising that things will now be unbalanced? lol. You do know if they merge a small world with an already decent sized world people still can get separated, much more likely than just allowing people to change freely like you know, they went with option 4 for that reason? Since you know, if a server already sits at 1k and they wanted to boost that number to say 3k per world, people still will be separated because they'd have to account in the people who will resub by march 1st.

So in the end, nothing really changes.

[TheRac25]

I love how this new dev team actually pays attention to the community response. I have a feeling they annouced the merge so far in advance for this very reasons. Maybe SE is getting their PR act together?

they listen but mostly only to the jp population

[Elexia]

they listen but mostly only to the jp population

Much like American companies only listen to their population...your point?

[TheRac25]

I am hoping that you are using the worlds as examples. I do not believe you have anymore insight to server populations then I do. Secondly, why should my server be designated the EU server? Why not a different server, such as.......Cornella?

yes i think that's why he put EXAMPLE in caps right above it

[Arksniper]

They may cater to the JP side more than the NA side but that is their main base. At least they consider player feedback. We can win a few small battle but never a war....

[Leela]

Hurrah for option 2