Does anyone else think the final save was a lil premature?

[Felis]

I only have a couple lv50's and I'm not a huge poster on the forums but does anyone else think the dev team should have held off on the final save to keep more people playing the game?

This is the problem, SE don't want more players playing FF XIV 1.x

Avoid doign any PR's to get new players in the current game and put those current existing players first priority, then once the ARR is rebuilt bring that up to get those customers to hope once again for this game.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post907102

[Ricky]

They had no more content to offer us until 2.0 so they shut down rather than milking us while providing next to nothing to do. I guess if it was EA they would keep the servers running and the income flowing but Yoshi-P and co either disagree with that kind of action or just wanted to focus entirely on 2.0 instead of worrying about 1.0 along side of it

If they had both running at the same time, 2.0 would definitely take longer to arrive

[Boxworm]

I just want ARR as soon as possible, so they can do whatever the hell they need to.

[Reika]

No one here knows the answer to the question, but we all have the answer we desire for it.

I think they could have done it sometime later, but wanted to get it done before the major holiday.

[Linkurrra]

I don't think it was a bad idea to have the save done this early. They have an obligation to make sure everything transfers over for players that did play. For starters this kinda has never been done before in an MMO!

I think it was a good idea to bring the server back up and running to let ppl occupy their time until they either:
A. Get into Alpha/Beta
B. To allow ppl to continue to socialize in game and maintain community.

What I think was a bad idea? Leaving the world servers all separated like before!
If you want to see what an MMO is like with only 5-20 ppl playing on it at any giving time. Login now! It's pretty sad and difficult to do anything especially if a party is required!

Despite the friendlists and LS's that would have been lost from this action. I think they should have merged all servers and everybody willing to play into 1 single server!

Because there is hardly enough ppl playing at any given time to fill 1 server

Maybe it would have been a lot more work to be worth it, but I think it would feel like more ppl were actually playing the game! and you just might meet new ppl, LS's etc through the process.

[Delsus]

They had to do the save at some point, they said it would take 1 - 2 months to port character data, now think if they left 1.0 up until 2 months before ARR's release, now just think of SE telling us "ARR is ready for release right now, however we have had to delay the release by 2 months because character data became corrupted after the transfer."

They need to build in leeway incase there are any problems, and the worse case scenario is all character data getting corrupted, which would need another 2 months to transfer it from the backups. They did the save on the 1st so they have time to do 2 transfer attempts if required.