When should we start seeing movement to open closed servers?

[Eekiki]

world channels and stuff have been suggested, but the devs said they will cause more lag.

Unless the 1.x software is even worse than all of us think, I don't see how this is true. Plain text requires such a tiny amount of resources to store and transfer it's not even worth mentioning (which is why it's so ridiculous that the cell phone companies make us pay $10-$20 a month for texting packages).

[Sylvari]

Angry angry Lalafell...

I'm in the same boat as well, My friend recently came back to FFXIV and i had to create a new character just to play with him losing all the progress i have put into my main character. When i contacted SE about the matter i was told that there was no way to transfer a character for any reason at all. After hearing that i decided that either SE is a bunch of fools trying to trick me since they recently did server merges etc or that they just don't care about their players. I'm at the end of my rope with my new character cause its just not fun losing all the hard work i put into my main. I rate their player service at 1/10... They did give me an answer at least. :/

[kazaran]

THe new server design is only runnign internally and will not begin use until the PC client is distributed and the PS3 version enters open beta and it goes into the Reboot stage.

Cell phoen texting is very differnt then live chat. Cell phone textign enters a cue at the tower. You are not recivign floods of txt at once across 100)+ people for each line of text.

IF you ever ran a private wow server you know why. Why the filter is needed.

[Deltara]

I say shut down the "shout" channel completely for three months.