Server merge: Hidden server names.

[Colino]

I thought part of the fun of MMO's is building a community?

Hey dude, I'm not sure when you started playing yourself, but me and many others have been building a community since September 2010, and seeing all of that disintegrate and break up because SE is to lazy (or just down right idiotic, pardon the language but this is seriously inalterating) to set up a standardized merge which has been done hundreds of times in other games including their very own FINAL FANTASY XI is just beyond ridicolous.

It's NOT THAT HARD SE, you don't need to do it differently for the sake of being different, cool and edgey. Sometimes different isn't cool, sometimes it's just fucking stupid.

[Scherwiz]

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.

If people do not choose a server, along with those not currently playing, will they end up on the same server? A lot of us have friends and family that will be back at some point.

[Elexia]

It's also not hard to coordinate with your friends. The only people who'll be "too late" are inactive people or if you're in the group who'll flock to only the first 3 servers on a list because you think it'll be most populated (which it ends up being cuz of like minded people.)

[Colino]

It's also not hard to coordinate with your friends. The only people who'll be "too late" are inactive people or if you're in the group who'll flock to only the first 3 servers on a list because you think it'll be most populated (which it ends up being cuz of like minded people.)

Some of us have more than 2 or 3 friends, some of us have 50 or more that are divided in different LSs that might have different interests and decide which server to join differently.

Is that so difficult to understand?

[Elexia]

It's not at all difficult to understand, but that seems to be the only thing people want to understand, not the other (logical) reasoning for this set up instead of just dumping a server onto another.

If your friends are scattered through linkshells and doesn't choose the same new world..hey that just happens. Whenever servers merge in other MMOs people tend to reroll or go elsewhere at times anyway.

[Gramul]

Pardon me if it seems I'm over dramatizing this, but It feel like they're committing the same sins that ruined XIV in the first place. Trying to innovate and change things simply for the sake of changing them. Over analyzing some aspects while completely ignoring others when designing a system.

Now, from what I can pick apart from google translate, the simple horrible server structure doesn't allow for regular mergers. However, that shouldn't stop them from simply recommending certain old servers to new. Like say Lindblum and Istory recommended to 5 or something.
Something simple like that would greatly relieve the confusion.

If your friends are scattered through linkshells and doesn't choose the same new world..hey that just happens.

It really shouldn't have to.

[Narfalicious]

Some of us have more than 2 or 3 friends, some of us have 50 or more that are divided in different LSs that might have different interests and decide which server to join differently.

Is that so difficult to understand?

I have friends that started playing on another server, and I think its awesome we can choose and get together on the same server, which we couldn't with forced transfers, how hard is that to understand?

[Phen]

I have friends that started playing on another server, and I think its awesome we can choose and get together on the same server, which we couldn't with forced transfers, how hard is that to understand?

Maybe just maybe, we could have both options like Yoshi-P keeps saying and both of you would be happy. Also this has been done before a recommended with an option of going anywhere.

[Colino]

I have friends that started playing on another server, and I think its awesome we can choose and get together on the same server, which we couldn't with forced transfers, how hard is that to understand?

They could reccomend a server to each player before transferring (i.e. Lindblum players are recommended to choose Server 3) so that you have both options.

It's not rocket science.

[Irondude]

I'm more concerned with my friends who will be coming back after 2.0 that will be automatically placed in a different server next month.