Pools Closed (Asura Is Full!)

I hope they keep Asura Closed Forever and Ban all cheaters in it.

If It haven't happen in the past decade, nothing will happen now.
From what I'm told, Asura barely noticed a difference despite been locked down for almost 5 months.

I haven't heard much from my buddies over on Bahamut (where I used to play before moved to Shiva) other than yell/shouts become more infected with RMT yells other than that its business like usual. I logged in last night on a mule there and it was refreshing to see 1700 people online.

What is this, 2018? You wish Square Enix would finally start banning cheaters after all the years these players have spent putting in countless hours, while Square Enix has done nothing about them? Pretty sick if you ask me.

Unlike the savage dupes, they are not harming the game (I assume they mean people using botting software with multiboxers and not exploiting the game mechanics).

On a principle we can dislike it but if someone are using cure bots they are not interfering with my gameplay, or I’m just naive and don’t see it/don’t care.

Unfair advantage means they make more money and develop characters faster that then get invited to pug or statics over legit players, particularly for new content.

most people these days exist outside of the game they are playing. i.e if they are playing league of legends ARAM or something they are doing it in a discord voice channel with the friends they are playing with.

i'd assume the ingame chat systems are so infrequently used compared to 10 years ago, which makes your name relatively irrelevant most of the time.

i don't think anyone is saying that smaller server players should want there to be a merge, obviously having no competition on anything can feel kind of nice. however, i do not believe that is a healthy state of a game and will lead to more player attrition than not.

Who's gonna be the first to tell Maletaru we're not teenagers in the early 2000s anymore?

I don't think he's got the memo.

P.S. your char name is really ***, please explain why you chose it.

tbh I'm a huge fan of "character name came directly from character making screen", like, if someone was named Heightslider I'd be like "what a good name"

alt joke: it's Mallet aru. like Gallagher.
alt joke 2: it's french. Mal AY tuh RU.

I wondered if it was Malet taru but then it's missing an l and I don't think he's that dumb. Also wondered if it was Polish "małe" (small).

I mean, it's definitely a dumb name, but it's still what everyone knows me by and people have gear signed by me from 15 years ago and it would suck if the character I was playing suddenly had a different name.

It would also suck if I had to explain to everyone I partied with: hey, even though my character name is Hownowbrowncow, this is Maletaru. Then people will keep calling me male, because that's been my name for decades, and other people will be like, who TF is male? Then we have to explain that I'm male, because my character name used to be maletaru. And I'll have screenshots from 18 years ago that show the same character as screenshots I take today, but with a different name. It sucks.

Plus, it's not just about ME. What if someone has a really awesome name, they just managed to get because they started early on, like their own first name, or sephiroth or some ***. Well, that name's getting nuked too.

It started with one closed server, and it became a second closed server because everyone who was getting banned from the first closed server, which was the largest in population, went to the second largest server. I'll give you one guess as to which server saw the greatest influx of population after SE put a second server on lockdown, you have a 1 in 14 chance to get this right.

Did you guess Odin, the third largest server? Congratulations! A winner you are.
Why did the third largest server see the biggest influx after the second largest server got locked down? Because people who want to play on large servers will choose to play on the largest server available.

The people who want to play on large servers will play on the largest server available. You cant tell people who want to play on Asura/Baha/Odin to go to Cerb/Sylph/Levi.

The only thing that will be accomplished by merging smaller servers is pissing off 70% of the playerbase.

Honestly, SE should have never closed Asura. They should have left it open and just straight up said the following:
"We have no intention to fix congestion issues. This is the largest server and we implemented queue systems on all modern content to ensure everyone enters in the order they signed up. If congestion is a problem, please feel free to use the world transfer service to move to another server". Use a laissez-faire approach to a problem the playerbase self-inflicted.

As if. Bet it wouldn't even be 7%. Numbers of accounts means nothing. Even if there are 11k on Asura and 3000 online it's only really a few hundred humans actually online and playing at any time.

I dont know if you misunderstood what I was saying, but the 70% of the playerbase that would be pissed off would be the ones on the 3-5k servers who just got *** over into a 10k server.

Leave it alone and hope it works it self out is what they did for the previous five or so years.

The risk now is service interruption, which they would have to refund or make up for in some way.

And seeing as the small servers are staying small and not an issue, why would they change anything with that.

If anything, they might create more servers not fewer.

I massively disagree. Most people on Cerb and Levi want to be on bigger servers but all didn't want to go without their mates. They'd mostly be happy I reckon.

I thought everyone on small servers are just a bunch of "inbred LAN multiboxers"?

Why would an established group, who have their squad to do stuff in game, want to go to a larger server where they have to deal with all the nonsense like repeated RMT spams and congestion?

Talking about real backwater servers, which Cerb and Levi aren't so much

If SE really wants to screw with us, they should turn all of the servers with < 500 people into Dynamis Servers. Every zone is Dynamis'ified.... and we gotta transfer to save them.

What service interruption? You mean queue lines and congestion?

Do other MMO's offer refunds when there is congestion? Did Blizzard offer refunds when players couldnt log in to WoW due to congestion? Did SE offer refunds when players couldnt log in to FFXIV?

I feel attacked.