With Asura being officially closed, it better come with a free server transfer!

[Uroah]

If you're going to prevent us from playing there, no one is going to want to stay so it better come with a FREE server transfer.

[Alhanelem]

what did the name database get maxed out again

Regardless, Asura should be closed. Better populations for everyone else.

[Dragoy]

Thanks Vana'bout, I maybe guess (okay it's not all about that, but it's clear it's affecting Ambuscade quite a bit in recent times, and it was even mentioned in the write-up).

Already a bit scared of what "we are also considering other potential measures that will help equalize the populations across Worlds" might mean... and I wonder how much more other world will be seeing bots now... "yay".

[radar]

No other server wants Asura players, since it's very much seen as a merc server.

Asura players are not going to move anyway, the RMT are just gonna have to eat porridge for a while.

[Alhanelem]

Long before it was the server Reddit sent everyone to, Asura was known as the cesspool of the game lol

[Voidstorm]

If you're going to prevent us from playing there, no one is going to want to stay so it better come with a FREE server transfer.

'playing on asura' IE buying gil from RMT.
other than asura being supplied with copious quantities of gil/delve/vagary/dynaD mats alex and dyna currency from other servers via RMT: I don't see how SE is stopping Asura players from playing on Asura.

[radar]

Honestly most people who use server transfers are mining the auction house to resell on another server anyway, there should be 1 month lockout after using a server transfer before you can use it again.

This is why stuff costs so much on smaller servers, cause Asura people come over and buy everything to resell on Asura. This forced prices to rise inline with Asura prices.

[Voidstorm]

true, but asura also supplies small servers with a lot of gear because there aren't as many shield crafters on small servers and we aren't actively crafting unless we need gil and the synth looks profitable.
with asura dumping su5's su3 gear and jse necks on a regular basis I typically don't bother crafting other than a few high % profit but low overall profit synths because the bigger synths while more gil per hour are already flooded by server transferred suppliers.

[Alhanelem]

Honestly most people who use server transfers are mining the auction house to resell on another server anyway, there should be 1 month lockout after using a server transfer before you can use it again.

This is why stuff costs so much on smaller servers, cause Asura people come over and buy everything to resell on Asura. This forced prices to rise inline with Asura prices.

No, it's usually the opposite. People transfer to Asura to bring back stuff that's in short supply on other servers. It's still stupid either way though and I agree the lockout should be longer.

[radar]

No, it's usually the opposite. People transfer to Asura to bring back stuff that's in short supply on other servers. It's still stupid either way though and I agree the lockout should be longer.

It's the equivalent of using a VPN to buy steam cheap games from some poor country, then reselling them on key code sites for 4 times the price (which is why steam had to stop it, and now those poor countries have to pay sky high prices)

Because of people abusing it all the smaller servers now have very high prices on everything (this is why they have to add add dyna d stuff to gobbie box and aman trove btw, that was the biggest one being massively abused). If the prices didn't rise, there would be nothing on the auction house to buy for natives on the server. Resellers would literally buy everything to resell for double.

The server transfer system is terrible and abused, they should only allow transfers every few months. No normal person will transfer and then need to go back in a few days, that's all resellers and it should not be a thing. They even offer cheap server transfers so it's abused even more.

Stop offering cheap server transfers, or bare minimum the cheap server transfer should have a 4x wait time or something.