Will WoW Classic Affect FFXI Playability?

While I don't think they'd do that either, and consider the half price transfers pretty damn close, at least it isn't actively penalizing the people who have chosen to stay on their small server like a merge would be. Certainly a suitable compromise.

I really don't think anyone who is financially stressed over $9 has any business wasting any time on XI, though. Go mow lawns, walk dogs, do something.

how would a free move penalize people who chose a small server? those who'd leave would target larger servers, not the tiny ones. if anything they'd get more of what they came for, having all the server for themselfs.

I said it wouldn't. A merge would.

if SE granted a 1 free move to everyone i'd still avoid moving to asura. would probably wait till they close asura and look what other server builds a healthy population.

no, because they dont share resources, and use different servers, and are hosted by different companies.

If I stopped buying my morning Soda on the way to work, in one week I could pay for a transfer. If I gave up one night in a month of ordering takeout, I could transfer me AND a buddy.

Its priorities. If you wanna move, go for it. Give up something else temporarily and I'll wager a shiny penny you can cover it.

Stop complaining if you're on a tiny server and don't like it. I dunno, my group of friends really like short ambuscade queues, favorable aeonic pops always open, and only 1 or 2 random gilselling /yells a day. Yeah, its a tad annoying when you can't pop over to the AH and find some obscure HQ gear just waiting for you, but there's enough crafters if you make good connections that you can commission damn near anything these days. Or, friend up with someone working the margins and transferring to Asura to buy/sell ***every now and then and place an order.

The ONLY benefit of a bigger server is a more loaded AH. If you don't have people to play with on Leviathan(fill in any small server), you probably won't on Asura either. Because I guarantee, things are happening on small servers. If you're not involved, its likely because either a)your schedule doesn't work with when the action is, or b)you've built a reputation that isn't conducive to groups in one way or another.

Before SE allows anyone to server transfer, they should activate your on board camera and show you a picture of yourself, with the question "are you trying to run from this player?"

As for WoW- from those I've met they're a completely different player type than the hardcore FFXI player. Won't affect it at all.

To a point, this would come back to someone's personal preferences.

Things are always happening, it's a matter of how those groups get filled up. Leviathan, like I assume any small server at this point, is almost entirely about friends and linkshell members. There's not a whole lot in the way of pickup groups happening, and that tends to be fine by us, whether due to preference or expectation of how FFXI is (Leviathan now is similar to how Pandemonium was pre-merge, IMO).

To be fair, with a population the size of ours, it's fairly inevitable that you'll end up familiar with a lot of the folks that share your playtime anyway.

Still, Asura (at least) has a lot more in the way of pickup groups going on, which are more analogous to the various group finder features that many MMOs (particularly the more modern ones) implement. In many games, that's a valid way to approach all but maybe the highest end content, without having to commit to a LS/Guild/etc schedule.
Much like having a lot of soloable content, the ideal is making the game more pick up and play. Folks that have played other games might be accustomed to having one. Someone trying to approach the game like that would have a much better time on Asura.

There'd also be the thriving mercenary scene on the larger servers, that is far more limited on smaller ones. Some may consider that a benefit.

So it might be a little unfair to make assumptions about people that'd prefer what Asura has to offer. Some may just be trying to play the game like many other games can be played. The only universally better thing may be the AH, but there are other potential reasons to prefer it.

Sure, and a good bit of what I wrote was in support of that. I'd still say the only universal benefit is the AH, because a larger population doesn't often benefit those who have an established group, or simply want to solo, etc. It's more likely to just mean congestion (even if you don't see it, due to them search the zone first).

This is just ridiculous. You said yourself that the situation is horrible due to all the RMT burns. If people were all capped on CP, they wouldn't patronize the burns, and the RMT would have given up and quit. There is no doubt that Asura's CP camps are noticably worse than Leviathan's.

There was a giant organized effort by Eiryl to make it known to SE how bad the ambuscade queues were on Asura. You say it's only for a day or two, but on months where it's easily farmable others have complained that it's just as bad 2-3 weeks in.

There are complaints about Einherjar, due to nobody wanting to party. Tenzen, Leviathan during HTBC campaign. These are things people on your server have actively complained about-and recently.

To me, it seems that you are so dead set on validating your own opinion that you're putting blinders on to the congestion around you. That, or you never actually play the game to see it.

I think that a lot of the "cp bot" problem is character selling tbh. For what, 50m (worth about 20 bucks) you master a job, then sell the character for a couple hundred. It's a no brainer. I don't really know why people would pay hundreds for mastered jobs when they could just pay the $20 themselves and get it mastered... but yeah.

HTB congestion slowed down a lot, pretty much all the HTB bots are gone from what I can tell. It's just not efficient to run them currently I guess. (or maybe they got bored, money's great but super boring)

You more or less won't see anyone doing leviathan 24/7 like it was a year ago.

As far as ambuscade... its like night and day when it takes 'effort' and when its faceroll. (*) no new gear/weapons has a lot to do with long queue too.

It's not that different and you're hilarious, hilariously sad at trying to ad-hom when you've already lost the argument.
I'd quit the game, want nothing to do with those retards.

Have to admit when people, especially returning players, log in and see 300 online it's a bit depressing. There is something to be said about higher server numbers for a lot of benefits.

Literally the only benefit is more crafters, everything else about it is a negative. Anyone who is pro-merge is a moron.

No. not really. First for the reason I said, people see those numbers and get depressed and quit because they can't find people. There are other benefits such as stocked auction house, shout group availability, the sense you're playing an MMO and not an offline single player game? I mean, you can't call people idiots because they want to be on a server that has some life.

You can complete content on a low population server but there are obvious benefits to one that has more people, those are just some of the benefits.

Covered the one, the rest is entirely subjective, so no.