Quote Originally Posted by Limecat View Post
That was actually one of the early ideas SE was kicking around during the 1.x days, a way to link your new XIV character/account to your XI one so that you could basically walk through a shining door in either game to transition to the other one.
I've never heard anything like this. Any source?

As a one-way passage, it could easily work. As a two-way door, problems would be had. For instance, XIV wouldn't have to use XI character models, they could just use XIV character-creator presets that closely matched XI models.

It can't be any more than cosmetic similarity of characters, as the gear and mechanics in XIV have always worked very different from XI (fulltiming a set, vs macroing in pieces)