So... Phase 4 and beyond, speculation ...

[Catapult]

I can't deny what I read with my own eyes, but I have to hope SE has changed its mind on this. A whole lot of people just spent over a month debating and deciding which worlds would be their new home. Individually, among RL friends, within guilds and LSes, non-FF guild alliances, geographical neighbors, roleplayers; I find it hard to believe SE would pull the rug--or literally, multiple planets--out from underneath them all.

Would anyone happen to know if the Japanese community were doing the same? Or is this just an English thing? I'm curious.

It must be said that SE only ever called them beta servers.

[JillyBean]

I can't deny what I read with my own eyes, but I have to hope SE has changed its mind on this. A whole lot of people just spent over a month debating and deciding which worlds would be their new home. Individually, among RL friends, within guilds and LSes, non-FF guild alliances, geographical neighbors, roleplayers; I find it hard to believe SE would pull the rug--or literally, multiple planets--out from underneath them all.

Would anyone happen to know if the Japanese community were doing the same? Or is this just an English thing? I'm curious.

It must be said that SE only ever called them beta servers.

Well it's definitely going on in the English side of the Beta forums. This is why I thought the World names would remain the same. As for if these same conversations are taking place on the JP side, maybe we need to put out the Subligar Signal to Reinheart to find out...

EDIT: I have put out the Subligar Signal http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1009517

[ArkhamNative]

Would anyone happen to know if the Japanese community were doing the same? Or is this just an English thing? I'm curious.
It must be said that SE only ever called them beta servers.

I know the Japanese specified some "international servers" for playing with foreigners on NA and JP regions, and mentioned the Oceania ones. Their contact forum (like Friend & LS plaza) is full of LSes naming their server, just like with all other languages. Elsewhere, French, German and other language communities have named chosen servers as well.

It definitely wouldn't be the first time a company (or even FFXIV) had changed beta world names for launch, but surely someone from SE would have said something by now if they were about to wipe out all this community planning.