Reassessing the Merger of FFXIV Worlds (02/13/2012)

[Arcell]

Greetings everyone!

We are still working on the longer post that was made by Yoshi-P earlier today, but wanted to go ahead and share with you the first post he made which is a concise version outlining the main concepts of how the world merge specifications will be changed.

This option is quite agreeable, please keep it.

[Alcide]

Just wandering, what's gonna happen if EU players don't wanna go the tenth server?

[Arcell]

Just wandering, what's gonna happen if EU players don't wanna go the tenth server?

Then they don't. It is there as a suggested option however.

[Soukyuu]

Just wandering, what's gonna happen if EU players don't wanna go the tenth server?

They don't go to the 10th server. It's a suggestion, not an enforcement.

edit: I hate you, Arcell.

[Alcide]

-.-'

I mean, what if just a minority of EU goes to that server and it ends up with even lower population than what we have now... are they gonna shut down the server or what?
Not that it concerns me since I'm EU but I don't plan on changing server, I was just curious..

[Xikeroth]

Well I hope it remains an option for the EU players to go to a dedicated server and they don't get forced there.

Several of us have good friends from the EU region and I know for a fact some of them maybe MOST of them, wouldn't want to be forced onto a server just because one guy at a company thinks its a good idea. Sometimes it isn't. FFXI for example has never had region specific servers and even now it still works.

They are trying to force us to work with the community on this game, and doing what they were planning was a big mistake so I am glad they are looking into it.

However I don't think any EU players should be forced to the EU servers with the merge it should be am option for them. Because if they get forced there and aren't currently playing, but planning on coming back before 2.0 should they really have to wait? No, they shouldn't. Chances are they'll stop playing completely since they can't play with their friends they have possibly had for years (very true for those of us that all came from FFXI in a group).

I know they never said they would be forced there but lets face it, I didn't see a post where they said they would have the option to go there either. I'm just saying forcing people onto one region server type is a bad idea as a whole.

[Arcell]

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I mean, what if just a minority of EU goes to that server and it ends up with even lower population than what we have now... are they gonna shut down the server or what?
Not that it concerns me since I'm EU but I don't plan on changing server, I was just curious..

Then it just is what it is. They can't force people to use it since it's just a suggestion lol.

[Raistlin]

yeah but you guys cant remember that they did not rule in the future, to place some servers by location. And if they want a decent PvP system (yoshi-P love pvp) is not so rare to have it. If they want to locate server 10 in EU in a future, you will play with 200-300 ping from japan or 30-80 EU?

[AdvancedWind]

Excalibur, Orichalcum, Masamune, Ultima Weapon, Save the Queen, Lionheart, Ragnarok, Muramasa, Gungnir, Chicken Blade. Calling it out now.

[KumaAkuma]

Lol my ping from Europe is a lot lower than 200-300.