[To the Devs] Character Transfer Service

[Ravenmore]

Another thing that could make it hard for them is that once you buy a expansion its good for all char on your account. Think that could be the line they would take. they could also say PoL like whats been said would have to give the new account a PoL ID and password while keeping all the progress on the char.

[Zyeriis]

Another thing that could make it hard for them is that once you buy a expansion its good for all char on your account. Think that could be the line they would take. they could also say PoL like whats been said would have to give the new account a PoL ID and password while keeping all the progress on the char.

Hmm yes, what about the registration of additional services (expansion packs). Would these get transfered to the secondary account because the original account used these to level up that character? (Would content be connected to character rather than account). In the case that it isn't carried over that would mean you would have to purchase the game again (which is fair and all) but would enough people be willing to do that for this to be relevant enough to warrant SE's time and "money"? If the case is that content gets carried over, that would increase the potential for the rmt sales of characters by being able to sell characters with full content access from a single account (then make new characters and repeat the process over and over) thus resulting in a decline in sales for the actual content. The latter is highly unlikely I'm aware but either way it is potentially flawed here.

[Krisan]

Another thing that could make it hard for them is that once you buy a expansion its good for all char on your account. Think that could be the line they would take. they could also say PoL like whats been said would have to give the new account a PoL ID and password while keeping all the progress on the char.

Since we're talking about character transfers to different accounts, I'd assume you'd only have access to the expansions registered on the account you moved your character to. This would honestly make the most sense.

[Ravenmore]

What would stop RMTing chars with complete mission gained access, theres just to many ways this could back fire that would not be worth the time SE would have to comment to come up with countermeasures to prevent it.

With leveling being as easy and fast as it is now and a new collection with all 3 abyssea add-ons coming in a couple of weeks this is a none issue. Only road block of a fresh accout would be maat fight but guessing most would level whm for a duel box char its a easy fight.

Sorry watching TV didn't see response sorry.

[Dekoda]

I don't see how there could be much of an increase in any RMT activity. The reasons you give to sell a character would be the same whether there was a transfer service or not.

Also, I was thinking if you simply allow a character to "separate" from an account, becoming the first character on a new account... there's no issue. By disallowing players to "merge" a collection of characters (from multiple accounts) on to one account, it would discourage RMT activity.

I don't think moving a character from one existing account to another would be the best way to do it, but I think some sort of service can be done without "back fires" nonetheless.

[Ravenmore]

I'm just trying to point out what SE will say if a rep comments on this. It'll either be possible RMT or cost/reward for SE. Where we could see the increase in fees for SE they might not want to gamble on enough fees to cover the cost and it could still fall to PoL being the major road block to it all. Don't get me wrong I like this idea but I don't know any other MMO that allows this. The server transers were part of other MMOs and SE followed the leader on it.

[Dekoda]

I'm glad that you're trying to expose both sides of the matter. However, I thought World of Warcraft had a paid character transfer service that allowed you to move a character on one account to another? I did a quick Google search and didn't find anything that said otherwise. If it isn't a problem for them, Square Enix could follow their lead, too.

Plus, if RMT was ever a concern, the server transfer service arguably encourages RMT activity too by allowing sales cross servers

I can understand Square Enix not wanting to gamble. Thus far, though, everyone seems to be in favor of a transfer service.

[Ravenmore]

I haven't messed with WoW for a long time if they did add it it was long after I tried it. Another thing was the wanted section on AH thread everyone like that even the water down version of it but SE pulled the cost/dev time card. Another thing was the Windowed mode everyone wanted it but SE found a way to mess that up. I really hate going to this but its looking more and more like the case FF14 sucking up to much of SE resources.

They are also going to start allowing us to send ra/ex items to char on the same account. Just one more thing they could point to and say no go cause of.

[Dekoda]

Yeah I thought about the Ra/Ex sending thing too. It's a nice feature because I have two high level characters I can exchange Ra/Ex gear to and from. I was afraid when I heard its announcement, though, because I thought it would put a character transfer service further off.

This is another reason why they could implement the "separation" method I spoke of if they decide to create a service at all. It would make it impossible to get a Ra/Ex item from one existing account to another, the items could only make it on to new accounts. Still, as Zyeriis said, these kinds of complications are avoidable altogether if we are just allowed to play on multiple characters simultaneously on the same account. I would be all for that.

[Ravenmore]

I would be all for playing simultaneously even limiting it to only two, mabye even giving the other char a ID ext to get around PoL. That would prevent any atemps at RMT.