Server merge: Hidden server names.

[Biggs]

I am absolutely infuriated about this utterly unnecessary complication in world transfer!

* The new Worlds shall inherit the names of the ten most popular current Worlds. Name assignments will be announced after the transfer selection period has ended.

What ridiculous reason could you have for hiding our server names from us until we are on them?
Yes they are just names but to some of us they have value and enhance our experience!

I chose my server for a reason, it is one of the top and will be featured as a name in the 10 but I and my friends who also want to stay on the same name have to chance getting it in a stupid hope of luck?

Please change this and allow us to see the server names before we transfer!!

Perhaps it would have been easier to truly merge server A to server B. At least you would have guaranteed control of the numbers. Perhaps even allow everyone the free transfer anyway ... but it should be a choice, don't force us to split up or follow one group in hopes that we can stay together,

To me at least, a server name is nothing more than a tool that makes you more or less favorable to picking a certain world. I don't see whats keeping someone from starting a thread that says, SERVER NUMBER 5 WILL BE THE UNOFFICIAL RP SERVER. I mean, once your on the server, how often do you use your server name in conversation throughout your time playing the game. If anything, this gives people that want to play on a RP server but didn't go to besaid because they didnt know what it was the chance to join up. Instead of posting a thread complaining about something that isn't going to change, why not start one now while you have time that brings the people together that share your view onto one of the new servers? You certainly have a few weeks to get that going, and from the posts I have read in other OP's, there are a TON of people that would get onboard with that. Try to focus more on ways to turn what you perceive as a negative into a positive. As long as you accomplish your goal, who really cares what they end up naming the server?

[Phen]

To me at least, a server name is nothing more than a tool that makes you more or less favorable to picking a certain world. I don't see whats keeping someone from starting a thread that says, SERVER NUMBER 5 WILL BE THE UNOFFICIAL RP SERVER. I mean, once your on the server, how often do you use your server name in conversation throughout your time playing the game. If anything, this gives people that want to play on a RP server but didn't go to besaid because they didnt know what it was the chance to join up. Instead of posting a thread complaining about something that isn't going to change, why not start one now while you have time that brings the people together that share your view onto one of the new servers? You certainly have a few weeks to get that going, and from the posts I have read in other OP's, there are a TON of people that would get onboard with that. Try to focus more on ways to turn what you perseive as a negative into a positive. As long as you accomplish your goal, who really cares what they end up naming the server?

Wedge let me level with ya here, ill see it everyday associated with my character, every time i log in, and every time Im talking to people ya know, outside of game. What we are focusing on is reversing this before you know, we get stuck with something we don't like.

[Biggs]

Wedge let me level with ya here, ill see it everyday associated with my character, every time i log in, and every time Im talking to people ya know, outside of game. What we are focusing on is reversing this before you know, we get stuck with something we don't like.

If your going to level with someone, start by using their actual name. My point was, if you got everyone that wants to role play on the same server, why do care what its called as long as the outcome is the same?

[Phen]

If your going to level with someone, start by using their actual name. My point was, if you got everyone that wants to role play on the same server, why do care what its called as long as the outcome is the same?

Im sorry I was under the impression names mean nothing to you as long as the underlying point was the same, or am i wrong?

[Biggs]

Im sorry I was under the impression names mean nothing to you as long as the underlying point was the same, or am i wrong?

Addressing someone personally should be an obvious difference from addressing an as of yet named server that doesnt care for itself what its called. If you want to split hairs over semantics instead of commenting on the point of my post, then go find someone else to troll. My point was the name of the server shouldn't matter as much as the content of people that choose that server in order to accomplish what they want too. If all the RP people choose server 5, for example, and they all migrate there, does it matter more that the server ends up being named besaid? Or is it more important to you all that the outcome was that all the people that wanted to be on an RP server ended up on one regardless of what its named?

Wait, why am I arguing with someone that clearly isn't here to have a discussion, but rather just troll for the sake of trolling? More than a year in and I still haven't learned. /em shakes his head at himself.

[Alegis]

For some the servername maybe means nothing but for me (and some others), it does.

I, as example, dont want to play on a Server named Gysahl. I just dont want to...
But if i have badluck (and im sure SE tries everything so i do have badluck), im forced to...
Thats not okay.

[zaviermhigo]

Maybe a logical answer but its still bs, you guys may not be attached to FF, but if I was on a server name of an FF game I didn't like or even play, that would be bummer for me :[ I still think this is bs, FFXI got one server name, and FFXIII got what 2 or 3? LAME!

Your previous mmo deserves more attn then some recent half assed rpg. Maybe XI players WANTED TO FIND OTHER XI PLAYERS. As a whole I'd rather play with XI players, half the people on my blist got my blist from not playing an mmo with any manners or respect previously. Most XI players understand not to go rampaging through a game effing people over.

I'd maybe take Mysidia, but my boyfriend and his friends would be more secondly attached to a FFVII or VIII and named server and I am not.

[Reinheart]

I'm not worried about the server names and although I had a reason why I chose Melmond when starting this game with my wife where Melmond was my least favorite but most memorable town in Final Fantasy 1 which was destroyed by the vampires in the Earth Cave... I hated but loved at same time how that Earth Cave was where you walk in and every damn you step you take you had to deal with a mob lol + server population matched the town's name lol it was one of the low population servers and name of the town in the first RPG I played Final Fantasy I (well now I think about it don't remember if it was DQ1 or FF1 first...)

Anyways as long as we get to choose servers once again in 2.0 it should be all good for this part of the server merge issue.

There is more to YoshiP's post aside from the server name stuff that needs to be explained to the community imo, pretty sure that's coming up sometime today.

[Gramul]

Anyways as long as we get to choose servers once again in 2.0 it should be all good for this part of the server merge issue.

You know what, you're right.

I have my main linkshell, and even though it suck that I'll probably never play with some of my game friends again, we'd just have to change again for 2.0.

It sucks and makes no sense that we're forced to choose a random server while friends will choose another, but Square's not going to change their mind for me so I'll deal with it.

[Andrien]

SE probably just trolling us.