Dedicated Servers?

[Thebard]

Hmm small amount of players... like trying to get the 500k players of FFXI into XIV... for example?

FFXI does not have 500k players.

[Felis]

Well the OP's idea is never going to happen but it would be fun to have a server that existing characters cannot join, new characters only.

We get this with ARR. They are called "new servers" ^^

[Thebard]

We get this with ARR. They are called "new servers" ^^

Hmmm idk if new servers will exclude existing characters.

[moriandrio]

Hmmm idk if new servers will exclude existing characters.

They will this has been confirmed by Yoshi-P during live letter and by community reps in several threads.

[Abriael]

Sorry. This is a terrible idea. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Third wasn't a charm

Scattering the population between a lot of different server types only serves to fragment the community. Server division between regions and new/old players is already a terrible idea and scattering the community even further between several different server types is even worse.

Anything beyond a roleplay server is just a waste of server farm space.

This is NOT an FPS. MMORPGs are strongly based on their communities. A fragmented community is a bad community.

[moriandrio]

This time i have to totally agree with Abriael, cause if you split up the community it would be almost impossible to bring them together again. And all those servers with a very small population would die in a few months.

[Dannythm]

Sorry. This is a terrible idea. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Third wasn't a charm

Scattering the population between a lot of different server types only serves to fragment the community. Server division between regions and new/old players is already a terrible idea and scattering the community even further between several different server types is even worse.

Anything beyond a roleplay server is just a waste of server farm space.

This is NOT an FPS. MMORPGs are strongly based on their communities. A fragmented community is a bad community.

This time i have to totally agree with Abriael, cause if you split up the community it would be almost impossible to bring them together again. And all those servers with a very small population would die in a few months.

Well it would depend on how many players you have, right? If the game is successful, and we all want it to be, there should be enough people playing it for this fragmentation to not matter, because the hardcore will have their community, the casual other (or whatever server differentiation should be made), and everyone would be happy.

If you assume the game will have few players, then I don't even know why are you guys bothering on supporting it, but as Yoshi said in a letter or an interview, when taking the FFXIV project there were 2 options: Let it die or bet on it all the way, and they bet on it all the way. Obviously something like this won't be of much use if only a small population plays ARR, but that's not the correct mindset.

[moriandrio]

Even if alot ppl would play ARR, there would be still not enough ppl for silly Servers like low exp or high droprates. And those ppl would have to reroll if they would like to play with all the others cause they can't be allowed to transfer.

And its just wront to think if you make servers with death penalty and slow exp all FFXI vets would come, they want FFXI 2.0 and nothing else. And alot of FFXI players are happy about death penalty not coming back and possiblity to exp better then it was pre ToAU.

[Alhanelem]

I don't understand how hard is to grasp the concept, because all I've read is people complaining at the examples given, well, as just that, an example.

Then he needs to come up with better examples. Because they are already considering RP servers (which is a good idea and is wanted by the community).

Only if the game really takes off and the playerbase grows, then I can see adding new servers with special rules and stuff. otherwise, either there won't be enough people interested in them or it will divide the community.

[Momita]

If a lot of people want low exp maybe (cuz never happens XD) SE will reduce exp for all.. not just for 1 server >.< (it's an extremization).. an MMORPG isn't a FPS.. can't have the same server cuz is a waste and a nosense..

High/Low Drop% ... can't be applied
High/Low Exp% ... can't be applied
High/Low Monster ... Why if EXP don't change? XD
PVP oriented ... FFXIV is PVE oriented, PVP is just an hobby.. never change.

Others type of servers?