Voice of affected players due to server shuffling (attn. SE)

[Mixtwo]

You implemented World Visit so we can finally do quests with our friends?

4.5/Shadowbringers is officially a countdown for us to say goodbye to them.

I couldn't have said it better. Day 1 of fanfest was excitement from being able to visit my friends in other servers, day 2 was the realization of not being able to play alongside them ever again.

Those who are ok with this change are people from servers that were not picked to be the sacrificial lamb in the name of 'easing the server congestion'

I don't agree with the 'Everyone's affected in one way or the other' mentality, especially if it is coming from people in the main servers. Yes, we all get affected, but the degree in which Crystal DC worlds get affected is a lot more than the other two.

Look at it this way, you're in Aether, you might lose some people from your community as well as raid team, but more likely they will be moving back to Aether in the expense of them losing everything they built in their home server.

Being shoved in Crystal, you lose both ways. You might lose people with the move AND people who will be moving out of Crystal - and if you want to follow them, you'll be throwing everything you built in your home server. Not a cheap price to pay.

Stop trying to play down the devs decision if you aren't the ones paying the price.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

Oh great, people are going now "My problem is greater than yours. Shut up."

I can totally see the devs looking at this and just going "Serves you right for being egocentric."

[Bluvirus]

this situation sucks for everyone. I'm on Siren, one that's not being moved but now I must move if I want to be with my friends. I get no compensation, no free transfer, no housing reimbursement because my server is 'uneffected'. I want to be with my friends so I'll have to bite the bullet and move myself. It's just a bad situation all around

[Sarevok_Thordin]

this situation sucks for everyone. I'm on Siren, one that's not being moved but now I must move if I want to be with my friends. I get no compensation, no free transfer, no housing reimbursement because my server is 'uneffected'. I want to be with my friends so I'll have to bite the bullet and move myself. It's just a bad situation all around

I think EVERYONE gets the compensation because they know some people will be in the minority in the non-moving servers.

[MerleSirlos]

I think they should have given more explanation for the reasons to make that change.

So let's keep aside all the bad stuff that this decision brings (breaking statics, separating friends, losing housing, etc...), since people already mentioned pretty much all about it and try to think of why they did this?

We have 2 data centers in NA (and 1 in EU) with multiple worlds per DC that are being reshuffled in 3 DC (2 for EU) with less worlds in each DC at the end of it. What does that change?
Less worlds per data center means possibility of each world growing bigger. Maybe we will get extra wards on each housing area (so that getting the house you want becomes easier), it might also be necessary if they want to add the possibly new housing area in Ishgard they hinted at?

We should get clear answers as to why they do this first of all.

[Bluvirus]

I think EVERYONE gets the compensation because they know some people will be in the minority in the non-moving servers.

I may have been confused or misread the initial presentation cause I thought only the new DC could get the free transfer. Hopefully it is for those of us in the minority too. I really don't like being put in this position, it's awful all around

[TroySoFab]

They were very apologetic when they made the announcement. They know it's difficult, they know it's going to be an unpopular move that will upset people, and it sounds like they don't want to have to do it either - but have come to the conclusion that it's necessary.

They also did mention the added unfortunate timing that they have to do this just as they're introducing more ways of connecting between worlds within each data centre.

Hey guys, they know they are screwing over a lot of players, but at least they are sorry. /SARCASM
If they knew this was going to be unpopular and didn't want to do it, then why? Its like they are actively trying to anger their player base.

[dragonseth07]

Hey guys, they know they are screwing over a lot of players, but at least they are sorry. /SARCASM
If they knew this was going to be unpopular and didn't want to do it, then why? Its like they are actively trying to anger their player base.

It probably has something to do with needing a third data center and spreading servers out across them. Just spitballing here.

What, you think they woke up one morning and said "Let's do this!", with no reason? This is a huge change. While I don't understand the technical reasons why, it's pretty clear that this is an important move.

[Mendalas]

Its tough for everyone that will be affected by this but you get a free pass out of the balmung problems, while we get a free pass into it. I have been apart of Aether for the last 2 years and for one am glad to see the end of my horrible df/pf experiences with balmung players

I've been on Balmung since before it was Balmung (Besaide in 1.0) and most of the horrible players that I've encountered come from Gilgamesh. You must have just had bad luck man.

[MiyuuKatsu]

This move by SE is very hurtful to me. I started this game back in 1.0, continued with 2.0 for a couple years, then took a break. When I came back, I had to rebuild my FC from nothing. I built a house, for myself, and later for the FC, and stacked it full of items, some of them difficult to acquire. Myself and other members spent hours and hours designing and redesigning simply because we enjoyed it. We picked up more people, found new friends, and brought in old friends who had also stopped playing, some of whom I first got to know back in FFXI, a decade ago. This data center move will potentially destroy everything I've busted my butt doing for the last two years. No amount of gil can compensate me for that. No amount of 'suck it ups' can change the fact that my FC and my friends could be ripped apart simply because some of them want to raid, and some of them aren't really interested. This is such an awful, awful move by SE, and I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do. I can't be mad at anyone who decides to go, but I just can't give up everything I've built or give up the people who don't want to or aren't willing to move. There is literally no solution to this situation that SE has created.