Treading Dangerous Ground

[Elexia]

I agree there should have been a poll on the matter.

When the development team comes to a point where this happens:



that should be a sign that it's time to ask the players what to do. At least then it won't look like a mistake on the developers' part, they just did what the players wanted.

They always ask the players, why do you think XIV is in such a flip-flop state currently? The players.

people on large servers didn't WANT a merge.
people on small servers did NEED a merge

Large server numbers taper off, newly merged servers doing just fine, then what? You still get the imbalance that people feared with option 4. because they're not going to actively merge servers everytime numbers drop each week or month.

This is why option 4 was pretty good, even if the last 3 servers ended up with slightly less people, it would be better distributed and in the future you wouldn't run the risk of untouched servers becoming ghost towns like what would/will happen by doing so.