Seeing problems for old servers at ARR release?

[Tonkra]

Yoshi stated, that we wont be able to change the servers as "old" players at ARR release (which decision i dont really like but well..). so we old players are almost "imprisoned" on these servers.

At release of the version of 1.0. the servers have been very crowded, many games have been sold. After a year the servers have been clustered together (some cluster contain character datas of 2 and some even 3 servers).

so that means that we have a server cluster that contains the amount of 2-3 servers of "dead" and deactivated characters. Anybody having the option to download the new game for free again and checking out what changed at release.

what if 60% of these "deactivated" accounts want to login back with their old characters? (even if the ratings and reviews are going to be good) What if there is no space at all for all players on the old servers? + New players like RL friends who want to join these servers and create a new account? "sorry this server is full, try to log in back on a later time"?
we are unable to transfer to an other server with our chars.

because we are bound and seperated from new players?



thats a really new situation. I cant remember a relaunch of an MMorpg in that kind of way and situation.
i think having in mind that many Final Fantasy 14 DVD's have been sold, and that many people will reactivate their characters on their server, which is a cluster of 3 servers now.. is something that may be a real issue.


one argument more to make char transfer possible for old players.