What happens if you don't transfer your character before the deadline?

[RAIST]

whew... for a minute there... thought I was the only one that got sucked in by the trolling.

Thanks for not leaving me hanging out there Kraggy.

in all seriousness, if they were really concerned about the server load issues, they didn't do the timeline right. They really haven't given enough time to get the word out to those people who will be bumrushing the transfer process when they release new content and everyone comes back. Might have been better to do it for a 2 month window after all these people come back into the game to check out the new content. Everyone is more likely to be reading the notices when they know a big update is pending. This event appears to have gone virtually unnoticed by the players until the last minute.

[Niyariko]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...count-Transfer

Please note that all users will have to log in and agree to the transfer by August 31, 2011, or they will lose access to PlayOnline and FINAL FANTASY XI.

http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...527&id=20&la=1

The transfer process will be available starting at the end of July, 2011 and is scheduled to last until August 31, 2011. After August 31, 2011, however, access to PlayOnline and FINAL FANTASY XI will not be possible until the transfer process is completed.

Even both worded differently, but seems to mean the same thing. If you have not transfer by then, your account has no payment method linked to it. Just like how any account with expired CreditCards will have their account automatically deactivated until they update their CC info inside POL.

But for this case, we will need to update our payment info within SE account instead. Just like how our expired credit card used to cause auto deactive on access to our POL and FFXI login.

[RAIST]

yeah... like I posted earlier with those two links.. that first one might be misleading some on the first read. Probably thinking they won't be able to get in to make the transfer because POL won't be available.

The data will still be there (it HAS to be, as the two logins are linked, among other things)--it just means you will no longer be able to login to the game via the POL system like we are now and you will have to transfer your data to the SEID to gain access.

[Raxiaz]

Can't believe how unnecessarily wrong people make themselves to be when they try to analyze something as simple as this.

[Rhianu]

Can't believe how unnecessarily wrong people make themselves to be when they try to analyze something as simple as this.

Except people are only getting things wrong because SE's explanations are unclear. :P

If the explanations were better, there wouldn't be so much confusion.