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

[SpookyRedwyne]

At the end of the day players are being forced into a situation where we're having to make decisions we shouldn't have to in the first place, I'm forced between choosing my friends and my fc, house on a desirable plot, etc.

What, you think ~23m gil is going to get me to give up my airships, plot that I literally had to race people to get, etc. when I know for a fact that I will not get it back on a new server let alone the income that having access to airships/subs brings in through rare mats.

This isn't even getting into the point that it's one particular node that's responsible for 95% of issues and keeping the DC in the same location won't fix the issue with the node being complete and utter garbage cough NTT cough
.

We're being forced away from our friends, statics, etc. because SE refuse to actually upgrade their infrastructure backend or take the time/cash investment to work on trying to untangle their absolute mess of spaghetti code that holds this game together and instead blame all their issues on "server strain" or throw it into the "too hard" basket and then the issue comes to a massive head like this because they seemingly refuse to acknowledge that they actually might need to spend some of their FFXIV income on, oh, I dunno, FFXIV.

But nah, we'll have the folks who are unaffected tell us to stop complaining, the devs telling us they "have" to do it when they could have fixed the issue years ago by actually investing back into the game, etc. and we're not allowed to be pissed off about being forced into this situation to which there was no player input/consultation

[AbusiveApricot]

You just expressed what everyone thought and felt (OBVIOUSLY THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY IT) *COUGH* definitely not from malboro *COUGH*

[Aztino]

My entire raid group is on Balmung, come again.

Pointless thread.

My entire Raid group is on Behemoth, come again.
Not a pointless thread.
I also have to choose between my static or my Friends on Diabolos/Rest of Primal. 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 do not want to suffer through that again but now that my server has been linked in the same dc as them i will have to suffer again.

I for one agree with this post (NOT POINTLESS THREAD) and think they should go back to the drawing board and come up with a better change. Put Gilgamesh and Balmung on Crystal and leave the smaller server communities alone.

Or simply, Put an OCE DC. Im still waiting for that to exist.

[alimdia]

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

FFXIV truly has the best community.

[Dirwen]

It is a pointless thread as what I learned from SE in FF11 they don't care about us if we aren't JP. Sure they like our money but that's about it. SE customer support is the worse so them taking our feedback and actually caring is a far stretch.

You can make all the noise you want and unless SE starts losing a lot of cash is when they might start to care.

[Sunoske]

My entire Raid group is on Behemoth, come again.
Not a pointless thread.
I also have to choose between my static or my Friends on Diabolos/Rest of Primal. 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 do not want to suffer through that again but now that my server has been linked in the same dc as them i will have to suffer again.

I for one agree with this post (NOT POINTLESS THREAD) and think they should go back to the drawing board and come up with a better change. Put Gilgamesh and Balmung on Crystal and leave the smaller server communities alone.

Or simply, Put an OCE DC. Im still waiting for that to exist.

I hate to break it to ya buddy, but you're gunna find bad groups no matter what server, balmung just has a bad rep for it. It's an MMO, no matter what servers your grouped with you'll get this.

[Iscah]

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.

[NanaWiloh]

The server split is not going to be fun for anyone. But its the lesser of two evils, unless you want them to take the game down and rebuild the back end. I can tell you right now rebuilding the back end would take far longer then anyone would be happy with, would also come at the risk that some friends may not return afterwards. Neither option is fun but thats how it is..

[DRKoftheAzure]

I'm on Diabolos so not really to concerned, until I learned that Balmung will also be on the same new Data Center, because I heard thing about Balmung and I finally get the chance to check out Balmung from what I heard...

[Alestorm]

They are offering free transfers to those of us who want don't want to go to a new data center. I'm hoping the new center might be new server equipment as well. I'll have a to see if a few of my in game friends are going to transfer out or stay.