Why doesnt SE merge these servers?Follow

Back in FFXI's heyday servers would have 3000-4000 people playing at one time on a server. Now it isnt even close to those numbers. Why dont they just merge a bunch of these servers so we can have one that is fully populated? The game is clearly more fun when there are 3-4 thousand people playing at one time.

I came back to the game several times after the game changed into something I didn't really want it to be. Honestly one of the things that made me quit so fast again was the lack of people. It just felt like a dead game. I think they should have merged servers a long time ago to make them more populated. I guess what Viertel is saying could have happened too, but I think the opposite was more likely. At least if we are talking a while back, at this point I don't know anymore.

You are telling me youd rather have a server with 300 people on it than a server with a few thousand?? Come on buddy. I currently have a low level character and cant even check for gear on the auction house because it is completely barren. Now for those newer players who are coming back they will most certainty be driven away by this. So I think you are wrong.

Why don't you get the armor from the RoE guys in town? It's not the most elite gear in the game, but who needs it to be when you consider the meteoric speed at which people level these days?

I dont play often anymore, I admit that, but I do think even just seeing more people is a good thing.

I pretty much only do content I can solo or duo..so wanting more people to complete content is not what is swaying me towards my opinion. Im ok with doing most thing on my own but thats doesnt mean I dont like to see activity around me.

Would merging help those that want the endgame content? maybe yes...but not a guarantee anymore.

It is more nostalgia then anything else for me at this point. After a decade+ of this game ...idk....it just makes me sad inside to run through so many zones that are literally empty. Its almost like the game "deserves" better then this, idk :(

I realize the game is at a sort of "ending stage" but seeing more people brings back good memories for me and is a part of what made the game feel so alive and interesting. I followed a person from the ah to the mog house the last time I was there simply because they were ALIVE! lol O.o

To be fair, merging servers wouldn't result in more low level gear on the AH. With only 7 AH slots the fact is most people just can't be ***** to list low level gear, especially because with the way EXP is so far boosted now, you level up on ever single mob so low level gear is largely useless and unimportant. I list stuff occasionally but a lot of it just gets sent back. When it's only worth 5-20K its just not worth the effort of relisting.

I do think a merger might do good, but it won't solve the gear problem. On the bright side, the gear problem is less of a problem now that gear is less important to low level soloers (trusts do the hard work).

I do think that a merger could just as well be harmful to the game. I am not going to lie, if I want to dynamis, I'd rather not have the zone be packed (for example). So there are upsides to lower populations as well as downsides. And realistically, I only ever play with a small handful of people on the server. Having 1000 other people I never play with won't improve my experience much, if any. It possibly could increase the number of shouts, which I would like, but my main issue right now isn't a lack of shouts, it's being far enough behind in terms of gear that I don't feel ready to joint the shouts that exist.

Especially CP.

Trying to find camps when you're decently into your JP grind but not near the top is a trial in and of itself when the server population is low even if Asura has one of the higher ones. You cram people together and it's just going to case rage, frustration, and people leaving the game.

I'm a BLU. I AoE grind because it's efficient as hell and faster than single targetting. Even Adoulin mobs don't respawn quickly enough and outside of Abyssea they're the fastest respawning we've got (disregarding starter zones). When I started off in sparks gear I was subduction spamming the lower half of Cirdas Caverns. I don't mean the lower few rooms, I mean I was making massive pulls and doing 2-3 rooms at a time and the entire south/southwest area I killed within the 3-4 minute respawn they had. I was waiting on the first pack to respawn every single time -- I can imagine with gear it's only gotten *worse* if I were to go back.

Cirdas Caverns is probably the most populated (and densely populated at that) underground area in Adoulin. It *still* does not have enough mobs. Dho Gates is a disaster as far as mob design -- you have i107-107 mixed with i119-122 mobs. In the same room. Right next to each other. The few places that have nothing but higher area mobs have only two or three per room, with the occassional four.

The setup we have for CP grinding can't even sufficiently support the population on each server NOW much less if you merge servers.

I think a big problem with that was that a lot of people lost their names to expired accounts and mules. There's not a lot that can be done about active mules, but when they merge again, they should force-expire any name with an account that has been inactive over a year in favor of an active player from the decommissioned server. If the expired players resub later, they're the ones getting forced to change their name. Keeping names of characters who don't play anymore around forever even through a merge is *********

Another problem was that people intentionally created accounts on the new server with names of other players from the old server during the time the merge was known to happen. They should also pre-reserve names from any active account at the time they announce the merge, and let people know ahead of time (maybe in the login messages) if there's a conflict.

Of course all this means they would need to have someone do some actual coding to deal with reserved and expired names, when they'd rather just push something through they way it's already been done.

Yep, I remember Pikko quitting purely because the name was taken by someone who didn't even play the character. They probably don't have a way to fix it and don't want more people quitting than they already have.

The reason high population servers worked last time was because every level range was significant for some reason. You had chains of promathia, BNCMs, people leveling at all level ranges, crafters making money because gear mattered at every level range, etc.

Now it's just a sad husk of its former self with the only real place for any group effort is in level 99 play. Dynamis zones would be packed, NM's would be camped. It wouldn't be a good time at all. There is no reason to do it, nothing would change, really.