Server merge: Hidden server names.

[Jinko]

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.

It still doesn't make sense that originally Yoshi-p said they would look at the numbers and then merge servers based off the data collected and now you are basically leaving it in the hands of the players.

As Gramul suggested on the other page it would make more sense to merge high with low population and medium with medium population to get some kind of balanced population and still keep the communities together.

It makes total sense why you don't want to announce server names but still makes no sense why you are willing to destroy communities, linkshells and friendships.