A history in server merging - Why SE is creating an overcomplicated mess.

[Colino]

Players can coordinate their choices instead of it being completely forced.

What's completely forced about suggesting you go to a server but giving you the option to choose another if you really want to? What they're doing now is COMPLETELY FORCING US to decide on something this massive when we clearly don't have the means to do it.

My only issue is future returning players not being able to select a server and being distributed randomly.

This is due to technical limitations since the current engine does not support keeping data in a "limbo", at least according to the JP rep posts.

[Onji_T]

What's completely forced about suggesting you go to a server but giving you the option to choose another if you really want to? What they're doing now is COMPLETELY FORCING US to decide on something this massive when we clearly don't have the means to do it.

I wonder who doesn't have the means to do it? Our group picks a server, 1-9, and we go with it. This really doesn't take a lot of decision making and very little coordination on our parts. It's up to you to make a big deal out of it, and somehow people always manage to do just that.

[Colino]

I wonder who doesn't have the means to do it? Our group picks a server, 1-9, and we go with it. This really doesn't take a lot of decision making and very little coordination on our parts. It's up to you to make a big deal out of it, and somehow people always manage to do just that.

So you have only one group of friends?

Good for you, but guess what, some of us have several linkshells or friends with which they aren't in the same linkshell... And guess what? Those linkshell's decision might not be exactly the same as your other linkshell's decision... So what happens then?

You have to pick one and are forced to break up from a group of people and potential friends simply because SE wants us to do their work for them.

All they need to do is recommend a pick for each server... I don't see how that's hard or how it could somehow compromise their integrity.

[Gramul]

I wonder who doesn't have the means to do it? Our group picks a server, 1-9, and we go with it. This really doesn't take a lot of decision making and very little coordination on our parts. It's up to you to make a big deal out of it, and somehow people always manage to do just that.

Some of us have more than one linkshell. And I have yet to know if they're all going to the same server, but it doesn't look favorable.

[Lurex]

I wonder who doesn't have the means to do it? Our group picks a server, 1-9, and we go with it. This really doesn't take a lot of decision making and very little coordination on our parts. It's up to you to make a big deal out of it, and somehow people always manage to do just that.

Your post makes perfect sense, but you forgot to factor in that you are NOT guaranteed that everyone in your group will be assigned that server, because if it fills with half of your group assigned to it, you are screwed.