I'm surprised how many people care about data centers

[JackHatchet]

I'm surprised how many people even bother to make cross-server friends. I basically don't talk to anyone unless they're on my specific server. Anyone else might as well be a non-person.

People crying about losing friends and families from other servers. What the heck is wrong with the statics on YOUR server, or the people in your FC? It feels like folks are making this into a way bigger deal than it aught to be.

[HyoMinPark]

Heaven forbid we socialize with people outside of our server, right.

[TheGrimace]

Woah, woah. I can't say that I have had many friends made across server lines either, but that's not to say that those that have friends between servers have issues making statics on their own servers. There are a lot of things that can go into that, like time zone differences and availability. For instance, on Excalibur, despite we're an NA data center, we have several people who play from Europe. I imagine other servers are similar.

I may not have made a ton of friends between servers since the implementation of the cross-server friends list, but it looks like a lot of people have. I think that's pretty cool. I am thankful that, at the very least, we'll have free server transfers for a bit- but people are still gonna have to do a bit of finangling to get these puzzle pieces to fit.

[Tlachtga]

Troll post?

People are making a big deal out of this because people they've played with for months to potentially years are going to be cut off from them.

And no, transferring isn't the solution, because they might have equally strong ties to their own server. Making an alt isn't a very good fix, because it takes a large investment of time to maintain more than one character, for the interests of raiding at least.

There's people still progressing AlphaScape; say they don't kill the tier before the change, they'd have to choose between leaving friends/FCs behind or leaving the static and thus losing weeks of prog.

It also doesn't personally affect me, but I can see how its terrible for the people it does effect; essentially making them choose between groups of friends.

Posts like these don't help; some opinions do NOT need to be shared with the world. Crazy concept, I know.

[Yuyuka3]

I'm surprised how many people even bother to make cross-server friends. I basically don't talk to anyone unless they're on my specific server. Anyone else might as well be a non-person.

People crying about losing friends and families from other servers. What the heck is wrong with the statics on YOUR server, or the people in your FC? It feels like folks are making this into a way bigger deal than it aught to be.

Yeah, how dare we, especially on EU, make connections to people outside our own servers for stuff like raids; how dare we not managing to get our friends onto overflowing servers like Balmung when they first start playing, so we have to console ourselves with "at least we can cross-pf and do stuff with each other that way!". How dare we, as human beings, being social creatures indeed. Disgusting.

Did you ever stop to consider that maaaaaayyyybeeeee not all servers have equally good players on them, or that maybe language can be a barrier as well?
Please do everyone a favor and get down of your high horse, yes?

[JackHatchet]

Why don't people just raid with their FC on their own server?

[Jojoya]

Why don't people just raid with their FC on their own server?

Because they want to raid with their friends and those friends are on different worlds for various reasons? Is that really that difficult for you to comprehend?

Most of the people I know don't choose their FCs for raiding. They choose them for other social and game play reasons. They use statics for raiding and most of those statics have cross world members.

Trying to force players to raid only with their own FCs isn't going to help you at all.

[MistakeNot]

Why don't people just raid with their FC on their own server?

Because their FC isn't filled with raiders, but is good in many other ways?
Raiding isn't the only thing done in the game, you know.

[Dirwen]

More people would join raids if the rewards was actually worth the effort but it's not. Thus the small population of raiders gotta stick together or they won't get stuff done from what I read so far on here.

[HyoMinPark]

More people would join raids if the rewards was actually worth the effort but it's not. Thus the small population of raiders gotta stick together or they won't get stuff done from what I read so far on here.

Nah, there’s quite a few that want the raid shinies, but just don’t want to put in the effort required for it. Or who don’t have the skill for it. Some want to raid but don’t have the time for statics due to real-life responsibilities and schedules, but who do not PUG because PFs are questionable, and become more so the longer you wait. Also the mindset: JP sees Savage as the next thing to do on a list of content; hence why their clears are higher than any other region. People on NA/EU are very, “I don’t wanna do it, so I’m not gonna do it”.

There are people who don’t see it worth the time, but it’s not the most pervasive of mindsets, nor the number one reason. There are a myriad.

People are moving from Crystal to Aether because the raid scene will be larger here, what with Gilgamesh and Sargatanas both on here (both of which have the highest rate of clears). And the raiders moving do not want to be isolated from the greater raid community. Those who made the raid community on servers like Balmung do not want to have to remake a new one, so they are also moving.