Thanks for ruining the only experience that keeps me playing.

[Sidious]

These were the options: Personally I like ② the best out of all of them...

Of course you do. You're on Gysahl, a high pop server. You won't be the "little guy" coming in and trying to fit in. If Saronia merged with Gysahl, it wouldn't be a new community. It would be Saronia trying to coexist with Gysahl. It'd be the same story if I took the option to transfer elsewhere; Server B trying to coexist with Server A.

Option 4 is the best choice because it creates new, cohesive communities-- not a coexistence. I do empathize with your desire to resist change and stay with what you're used to, but a new community is better for everyone overall. You can make something new and better with new faces. It's really not as bas as people are making it out to be.

[Biggs]

Of course you do. You're on Gysahl, a high pop server. You won't be the "little guy" coming in and trying to fit in. If Saronia merged with Gysahl, it wouldn't be a new community. It would be Saronia trying to coexist with Gysahl. It'd be the same story if I took the option to transfer elsewhere; Server B trying to coexist with Server A.

Option 4 is the best choice because it creates new, cohesive communities-- not a coexistence. I do empathize with your desire to resist change and stay with what you're used to, but a new community is better for everyone overall. You can make something new and better with new faces. It's really not as bas as people are making it out to be.

Exactly man. Not to mention that most of the people on here complaining about this method could give a shit what happens to the few French or German players that have no one on their server to talk to. They stated that as one of the main reasons why they chose option 4 in the initial letter, and everyone convieniantly chose to overlook that while raging. Thats why I am glad they just made a decision instead of taking a player poll about it. I don't want most of the people raging in these world merger forums making any decisions on my behalf.

[Shyd]

I have been playing since launch. I never played beta but from what i hear at launch was just like beta. And it was full of ui lag. Poor tutorial. But I still played. I was actually quite into the game. Leveling up all i could. Basically all disciplines of hand, and land, and magic. I was not really bothered by all the lame nonsense. Item's not stacking high enough, UI lag, Transportation issues, no quests just leves just to name a few.

I believe several weeks after launch. SE came out and said basically we know this game is bad but we will fix it please be patient with us. I heard this and was utterly impressed and glad. They where not going to charge me a sub. and let me play this game as they make it better. As the months have rolled through one after the other, after the several players polls and live interviews, and the updates and letters on the lodestone. I for one have not had any bad thoughts on how the game is progressing. It may be lil slow in coming because of the excitement and anticipation of the new stuff. But it doesn't bother me.

I trust Yoshi. He has not let me down. There are many people that will agree with me in saying he is awfully too nice to the lot of you. You really do not deserve all the creativity and hard work him and his team are doing for us. You don't take any of that into consideration. All I hear whenever some new information comes out is people griping and complaining. It really is annoying. I log onto lodestone to check the news and see the server merge and i was like oh great the forums are going to go nuts today. I look at them and WTF 2 pages full of complaining and whining.

I typically use the forums to comment on some ideas that are actually good and should be atleast looked at by the devs. But lately all i do when i log on is look at mass amounts of crying. It just makes me not want to even log in and browse the forums.

[Bongeh1986]

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
Producer/Director Yoshida here,

皆さん、多数のポストありがとうございます。
全リージョンの関連するスレッドにも目を通させて頂いています。
今回の件については、コミュニティ全体に対して、非常に大きな動揺を与えてしまい、申し訳なく思っています。
Thank you for many comments/posts.
I have looked through related threads in all region; I apologize for causing a major stir to the community with this issue.

現状、開発/運営チームでは、非常にフィードバックの多い②案を更に調整し、
④案のメリットも生かしたものにできないか、
皆さんのフィードバックを参考にさせて頂きつつ、検討を重ねています。
技術的な確認事項、スケジュールの確認もあるため、恐縮ではありますが、
このまま週末に突入し、週明けまでお時間を頂けると助かります。
We are currently looking into making it possible to go by plan #2 which received many feadbacks and keep the merit from plan number 4. We need to check and verify the technical side and schedule so please give us until beginning of next week.

トピックスについては、一時取り下げも検討しましたが、
仕様が見えなくなると、話し合いの際に、内容齟齬の可能性があるため、
少なくとも週明けまでは、このままとさせていただきます。
We thought of bringing down the topic on the topics section but if we take it down when people talk about this there might be issue where wrong information is given so we would like to keep it at least till beginning of next week.

繰り返しにはなりますが、現段階で非常に大きな懸念の声を挙げられている方が、
多数いらっしゃる中で、ワールド統合を強行するつもりはありませんので、
その点は重ねてご理解頂けますよう、宜しくお願い致します。
This is repeating what was mentioned before but at current timing there are few saying we are forcing this server merge but please understand that we are not.

Plan two being, exactly what I said from the beginning.

Arigato gozaimashita Yoshida.

[Eron]

Got to be able to adapt, man. You might lose out on some old friends but I'm positive if you are a social person you'll find others. It's hard to do when you're level 50 all over the place, I'll admit, but keep your mind open and attitude unsalted and you should be fine.

With destruction comes creation. Hopefully this server merge creates a better and bigger community.