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

[hyejinstar]

Title: This thread is specifically for the voice of the affected players/servers due to the new Crystal DC announcement from PLL yesterday.

I need my voice to be heard by SE because the other thread regarding this issue wasn't doing justice. Almost everyone who stated they are OK with this are people that aren't thrown into Crystal DC. But I'm not okay with this. My friends in Diabolos & Malboro are not okay with this. My fellow Primal/Aether friends agree Diabolos got screwed over. All for what?

I'm a long time Final Fantasy series fan, & have been an avid X|V player for 1.5 years now. Not long compared to many here, but that's not the point. I started in Leviathan & transferred to Diabolos because I had friends here already that I hadn't known about til after I made an account. That was no big deal because back then, I didn't have much to lose. I was only 2 months in, wasn't in an FC (trial player), & no close friends. After the move, the rest is history. I've been here since & I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in this game. I've made new friends in home server as well as other Primal servers through the countless Duty Roulettes that I leveled all classes to 70 with; through the Party Finders doing Wonderous Tail, Trial farms, Raid clears; through PVP, the 3 Eurekas! As grindy as Eureka is, the good people made it bearable & actually enjoyable. It's an instance with 180 minutes, & quite honestly I've met & befriended more people through Eureka than anything else; & when that 180m is up & the randoms I met in party are about to disband, do you know what usually happens? We plan to re-instance & make a party again in the new one. Because that's the only way we can hang out cross server.

That's 180 minutes. It's short, but it still makes people sad to say bye. But it's comforting that we can still add friends cross-server or know we can still see each other again since we're in the same DC.
But imagine friendships that was established for months-years. Everyone has a different background & history with this game. I have quite a number of friends who have been here since ARR--they have literally been partying with the most of same people in Primal for 5 years.

That's what an MMO is all about. Playing together with friends & strangers from all over the world with common goals & interests. Forming bonds & friendships in the process as fellow Warriors of Light. SE, you constantly remind us in Main Story Quests the importance of this.

[hyejinstar]

Day 1 of Fan Fest, I was so hyped for Shadowbringers. I was just telling my friend, "I love XIV!" My friends cross server were telling me they can finally visit us on their main characters. To have the option to play with my friends not only from here but cross servers too? I couldn't wait for this 5.0 & I was sad to not have made it to Fan Fest to experience this hype in person.

Day 2 during the Producer Live Letter, you announced what was the worst move I have heard from any games I've ever played. I'm still trying to recover from the mental shock I received yesterday. You literally ripped us from Primal & threw in some free transfer with housing compensation like it's a band aid. But that's not what we want at all. That doesn't even begin to make things better. In your corporate eyes, it's a fix to ease the congestion or at least not repeating the SB release mess. You knew the consequences that'd bring to the affected servers, but you didn't even attempt to discuss the possibility or ask for any of our opinions.

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.

Among the mixture of upset emotions regarding this situation you forced us in, I'm feeling a lot of betrayal towards SE.

I bought the best medium house I could ask for in Shirogane, member of my friend's FC that's been around since April 2014 with a large also in Shirogane with all the maxed airships & submarines. You already know the situation with XIV housing--securing the desired plot being the biggest one. Reimbursing for the cost of house + 3 million gil for furnishings doesn't even begin to reimburse the effort or hardship that went into acquiring the plot or the time spent on decorating. If you're thinking, oh you can just wait for the plot in the new DC or redecorate again, all I see is the sub time you want out of us because housing is such a timesink.

There's so many other factors that's wrong about this Crystal DC & specific servers that went into it; primarily raiding & PF issues. If you haven't seen the memes being made in ffxiv reddit already, Crystal is about to have the worst time raiding. Not to mention the 2 main RP servers being put in there, but I won't get into that.

I/We do not want an apology. This is not a fix. None of us asked for this, we don't deserve this. Please do not be that company that doesn't care about their players. Reconsider/revise this movement!

[MaybeOliverB]

Everyone's affected in one way or the other, pointless thread.

[hyejinstar]

Everyone's affected in one way or the other, pointless thread.

Gilgamesh player, unaffected player.

[MaybeOliverB]

My entire raid group is on Balmung, come again.

Pointless thread.

[SDaemon]

Gilgamesh player, unaffected player.

This does nothing to garner support for your complaint. The reshuffling impacts everyone to different extents.

[hyejinstar]

This does nothing to garner support for your complaint. The reshuffling impacts everyone to different extents.

Of course we're all affected, but I'm talking about the ones specifically thrown into Crystal DC.

[NocturniaUzuki]

I think the largest issue is honestly the housing. If you are close with your friends as a group, you can at least choose to all transfer to the same DC, or even then same world. The problem then, though, is that you throw out your house. That's something I can appreciate being ridiculous because it has less to do with the cost and more to do with trying to actually get the plot you want in the first place. Decor can be mostly re-done the same way, but you may have to wait months or more before you can get the same plot.

[hyejinstar]

My entire raid group is on Balmung, come again.

Pointless thread.

That's great! At least all of you are on the same server unlike my friends who are planning to leave to get out of Crystal since their static is mainly cross servers.

[hyejinstar]

I think the largest issue is honestly the housing. If you are close with your friends as a group, you can at least choose to all transfer to the same DC, or even then same world. The problem then, though, is that you throw out your house. That's something I can appreciate being ridiculous because it has less to do with the cost and more to do with trying to actually get the plot you want in the first place. Decor can be mostly re-done the same way, but you may have to wait months or more before you can get the same plot.

This is personally the 3rd biggest issue for me after friends & FC, but you're right. Trying to acquire an in-demand plot in what's about to be a more populated DC? Good luck with that.