EU players new server

[ShadowCadja]

All of them. Why?

Then you would see that people have stated that is more then likely for all EU and not only tagged as French and German. ^^; (Translation mistake, etc etc)

[Patafix]

Do we know if the #10 server will remain tagged as EU after march ?

[Naylia]

Then you would see that people have stated that is more then likely for all EU and not only tagged as French and German. ^^; (Translation mistake, etc etc)

In the NA Lodestone letter, the server is very clearly tagged as FR/GR. It's not like someone mistakenly typed France instead of EU.

New World 10 is recommended for German and French-speaking players. German and French-speakers form a minority within the total player population, and this should improve their playing experience and make it easier for them to get together and form parties. However, it is a recommendation only. The World will not be restricted to German and French speakers, and players from other regions are free to transfer to the World.

They are clearly catering to a linguistic minority (albeit, one significant enough to call out), not trying to create time-zone based servers.

[Xenor]

Then you would see that people have stated that is more then likely for all EU and not only tagged as French and German. ^^; (Translation mistake, etc etc)

I guess you were right in the end.

I will move to world 10 and hope for the best. Worst case it will have a low population but attract many new EU players at the re-launch.

[Coris]

Well, first of all I'm German but I am not happy about that SINGLE EU Server!
I also don't want this one to turn out as one of those servers where you read those "JP only" etc. shouts...

As I said on the German Forums, I don't want to live with that solution of 'server merge'. What if you and your friends choose a server, which happens to be full later on and just a few weeks later another friend wants to start playing FFXIV with you?! Is he screwed then?
I really hope they won't do it that way. Still want the solution of picking two low populated servers merged into one...

We might join another server instead of #10, but actually I don't want to think of it yet.

[ShadowCadja]

Well, first of all I'm German but I am not happy about that SINGLE EU Server!
I also don't want this one to turn out as one of those servers where you read those "JP only" etc. shouts...

As I said on the German Forums, I don't want to live with that solution of 'server merge'. What if you and your friends choose a server, which happens to be full later on and just a few weeks later another friend wants to start playing FFXIV with you?! Is he screwed then?
I really hope they won't do it that way. Still want the solution of picking two low populated servers merged into one...

We might join another server instead of #10, but actually I don't want to think of it yet.

Sorry for going off topic but that sig is awesome... XD +1

[Choyi]

One of the charms of XI and XIV is no matter what time zone you play in, there will be people online to interact with thus having a designated EU,asian, us etc server population would be a terrible thing for me since my playtime can wary alot between weeks.
Which is one of the reasons I dislike this server merge system as it will segrate the population alot and there will be very dead servers outisde of peak times.

[Elune]

I assume most French and Germans knows English as little as I know German. Studied the language for 6 years, but I feel very uncomfortable conversing in it. I'd probably say the wrong things or misinterpret it. Thus I'd try to speak English with a German instead of German.

But we've already established that it's the English mods that have taken great liberties in their translation of the original post by Yoshi (both on the devlog and in his forum posts) and that it is, in fact, the EU he is talking about. Not only French and Germans.

[Mamba]

Actually I'm trying to find all the Finnish players in XIV to gather around in one server.

Jee, kerro minne menette, ehkäpä tulen samalle serverille

Expecting someone to speak English is considered small minded.

And even though we learn each others language in school its not to the level that we can speak or write it fluently.

This is such a small minded comment itself.
I learned English in school, played games like Space Quest (lol) in English that forced me to learn to write it and understand it. I LOVE the fact that there was such things that made me really put a bit of an effort in my language studies because knowing another language fluently is a great thing to have, it opens so many doors (not just in games).
I don't think there should be any "language" servers on FFXIV, time zone I understand but not language...

[Elune]

Jee, kerro minne menette, ehkäpä tulen samalle serverille

Yksi, kaksi, kolmen täytöpussi.
Brödrafolk ftw. <3