"Legacy" server capacity concerns

[JTSpender]

I was honestly a bit surprised to see that there were only the same 10 servers available for 1.0 players to transfer to. I think a lot of us have been talking up ARR to our friends, and have people interested in giving XIV a shot with us when ARR launches. If each of us brings in on average one or two new players, that's going to double or triple the active server populations... do the Legacy servers have enough capacity for that?

In particular, given how many of my friends perceived 1.0 to be a huge mess but are willing to give XIV a second chance, it's going to be reallly hard to keep them interested in playing if their first experiences with ARR are constant "Server Full" messages, or having to wait days and days to make their character on my world because new character creations have been throttled for "server balance purposes". Or worse, just not be able to play on the same server as me at all.

And if some of these friends decide to go ahead and play anyway but make their character on one of the new worlds and I, as the person who actually stuck it out and supported the game, am stuck not being able to play with my friends without starting from scratch, I am going to be very, very, very angry.

I realize there are probably some reasons they went with this setup (keeping economies balanced, making sure there are enough high level people starting out on each server to do endgame stuff, not having to deal with a "rush" of people wanting to transfer to the "new" servers, etc.) but frankly I think those are short-term issues or things that can be dealt with, and I'd be quite willing to put up with a slightly weird economy or a little trouble finding high level groups for a while in exchange for being sure I can actually play with my friends. I would much rather you give us the opportunity to spread ourselves out a bit more.

So... please consider adding a few more servers for 1.0 players to transfer to, or some other method of ensuring that we can get our friends who are new players on to play with us.

[Enma]

I think Yoshi-P and his team are well aware of how many people their Servers should manage. No need to complain also about this...

[Rowyne]

I think it's a valid concern. That said, the dev team will probably look at population during P4's open beta to get a better idea of just how many people are still paying attention to this game. If the numbers are better than expected, perhaps we'll get some more servers.

[JTSpender]

Since the transfers are happening between phases 3 and 4, that doesn't really help unless they're wiling to do an additional round of transfers. And all Phase 4 can really tell them is how many 1.0 folks want to play, not how many of those 1.0 folks also have new players who want to play with them.

And sure, I get that they have a higher capacity, I'm just uneasy about how *much* higher. It seems like spacing folks out a little bit more is the less-risky bet, but maybe they know something I don't.

[Mjollnir]

Remember, the ARR servers have a much higher capacity than the ones we were on during 1.0.

[Seyrr]

I'm honestly not sure - do Legacy players get a free transfer to ANY of the new servers? Or are we limited to Legacy servers? The post seemed really vague on that point, which is frustrating because it's the single most important factor for me right now.

Some of my friends want to create characters on one of the new servers since it has the same name as the XI server we all used. If I can't go there because I'm Legacy, I'm really going to be ticked off - especially after I spent all this time telling them how much XIV has improved and how it's worth a second go.

[Orophin]

I'm honestly not sure - do Legacy players get a free transfer to ANY of the new servers? Or are we limited to Legacy servers? The post seemed really vague on that point, which is frustrating because it's the single most important factor for me right now.

Some of my friends want to create characters on one of the new servers since it has the same name as the XI server we all used. If I can't go there because I'm Legacy, I'm really going to be ticked off - especially after I spent all this time telling them how much XIV has improved and how it's worth a second go.

1.0 characters are limited to the Legacy servers, but players can create a new character anywhere they want. We've known for a long time that 1.0 characters were going to be restricted to certain servers, so there's nothing to get ticked off over.

Only options you have are to make a new character on the server everyone wants to pick or have them create characters on the Legacy server your old character ends up on.

To address the topic, I don't expect a whole lot of brand new players to flock to legacy servers. A few here and there might rejoin with people they knew from back when, but people starting fresh are more than likely going to pick a new server.

[Seyrr]

1.0 characters are limited to the Legacy servers, but players can create a new character anywhere they want. We've known for a long time that 1.0 characters were going to be restricted to certain servers, so there's nothing to get ticked off over.

Only options you have are to make a new character on the server everyone wants to pick or have them create characters on the Legacy server your old character ends up on.

To address the topic, I don't expect a whole lot of brand new players to flock to legacy servers. A few here and there might rejoin with people they knew from back when, but people starting fresh are more than likely going to pick a new server.

Grand. Time to start yelling at said friends for a bit and see if I can convince them to join me on one of the Legacy servers, then!

[Notredamefan23]

well seyrr they said that legacy cannot join new servers unless they create a new character