I need server transfer now!

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Originally Posted by Firefly

This is funny coming from a player on a Legacy server with a lvl 50 Arcanist.
Not all Legacy 1.0 players are lvl 50 everything with 50 million gil. I played 1.0 for the first 3-4 months after release and got my MRD to lvl 23 and a few other odd classes to mid teens. Right now my highest lvl is MRD 34 and all others are below 20 (many still at 0), and I have ~20k gil. Right now there are tons of 1.0 players like me who are stuck on Legacy servers with a bunch of elites who formed FCs long ago, lvl 50 everywhere you look and no one talks to you because you're not lvl 50, and it sucks. I'd rather jump to a regular server where there are more players in my lvl range still and are still sociable to people under 50.

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Even new servers are like this scince week 1 lol

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Originally Posted by Trihuuger

They ruin the economy? Honestly, this wasn't obvious..? If you've got friends, then they can transfer to you. There is absolutely no reason 1.0 players should be allowed off their legacy shards just over a month post launch as it cheapens the work of those who started from scratch and couldn't find a high level character already in existence to simplify their grind/gear creation/etc. like on Legacy.

Unfortunately it looks like this is falling on deaf ears though as someone who can read Jap seems to have said all that's going to happen is a Gil cap. Bad decision.

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New servers cry out when there is not enough gil being generated in the game.

New servers cry out when people with gil want to transfer in and help their suffering economy.

People, really?

So there was a translation of the announcement coming? 11 hrs isn't long enough to translate something from Japanese to English?

I still don't get why this is something that will be charged outside of the monthly fee. I know they've been doing it this way since XI, but it doesn't make a lot of sense technically... it's not like they need to have a midget in a box doing transfers all day at minimum wage, it can be totally automated. Is it to discourage players from changing worlds, or is it just a gratuitous 'extra service' money grab?

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Originally Posted by Magis

If there is a gil cap, how will they ruin the economy? A minimal amount of gil is introduced.

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Easy. Spend all their gil on HQ and most expensive end game gear and materia until they reach below the gil threshold. Then they transfer and sell all the items they bought. Boom, market gets stupid and they still have as much gil as when they left. I really hope they don't allow legacy players to change servers.

Greetings, everyone!

As mentioned previously, the World Transfer Service is scheduled to begin soon and Yoshi-P has organized a bit of information about this before the official announcement is made.

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

FFXIV: ARR Producer and Director Yoshida here.

I would like to start off by apologizing for the login and character creation restrictions due to the heavy congestion during the two weeks following the launch of FFXIV: ARR. Twice now we've enhanced existing servers and introduced new servers, and with the upcoming additions that will be made starting in the middle of this month and finishing up at the end, we will have developed our expanded infrastructure to properly meet our operation needs.

As a result of players experiencing problems following the character creation restrictions, we have been working hard to introduce the World Transfer Service.

• You picked a World because you liked the name, but character creation was closed when you tried to create a character.
• You wanted to play with your real life friends, but were unable to create a character on their World.
• You created a character on a World that is often congested and were often met with login restrictions.

Before you all read the official announcement, I've organized an outline of the World Transfer Service describing what it is, the benefits, risks, and case by case scenarios, so if you are thinking about using the World Transfer Service or plan on using it, please be sure to read on.

• What is the World Transfer Service?

  Simply put, the World Transfer Service is a service that will allow you to move from your current World to another World of your choice. Normally this is a fee-based service; however, as an apology to players for the aforementioned issues, we will be offering this service free for the first five days.
  
  However, please be aware of the below.
  

  • A single transfer is a one to one transfer from your original World to a single destination World.
  • If it's a single destination, you can transfer up to eight characters at once.
  • In the event you would like to move character #1 to World A, and character #2 to World B or C, you will have to perform two world transfers.
  • In order to transfer, the below requirements need to be fulfilled:
    → You cannot belong to a Free Company (If you do belong to one, please leave the Free Company).
    → Make sure the character you wish to transfer is logged out.
    → Make sure there are no items being sold on the market boards.
    → There will be a limitation on the maximum amount of gil you can bring into the destination World.

  Additional details on the rules and restrictions will be explained in the official announcement.
  
  Furthermore, it will be possible to move from a new World to a new World, a Legacy World to a Legacy World, and a new World to a Legacy World. In the future, we will look at economic conditions on new Worlds and plan on making it possible to transfer from Legacy Worlds to new Worlds; however, this option will not be available at the start of the World Transfer Service. We appreciate your understanding.
  

• What are the benefits of transferring Worlds?

  One of the biggest reasons that people use World transfers is so that they can meet up with their friends and play together.
  
  The largest benefits being that you can adventure with your friends, or meet up with the people you've become friends with via the Duty Finder, and of course play with the people you want to play with.
  
  The service also gives you the ability to move to the World that features the name that you really like.
  

• What are the risks of transferring Worlds?

  There really aren't any negatives to transferring, but there are a couple of risks, which I would like to go over.
  
  Risk of having to rename your character
  One risk of transferring is that there may be a character on the destination World with the same name as you. In this case, the name priority is given to the person who is originally from that World.
  If you try to move your character to this World, you will be asked to change your name. Applying for the World Transfer Service will be performed from the Mog Station. When applying, the system will check whether there is a character residing on the destination World with the same name. However, there may be cases where a character with the same name is created on the destination World a second sooner than when you are transferred, and while this might be extremely rare, please understand that we cannot guarantee anything.
  
  Risk of congestion
  In the event that you use the World Transfer Service and the destination World is one with a large population, login restrictions may be enacted during each region's peak time, which falls between 9 p.m. to midnight. While we have raised the amount of players that can simultaneously play on each World to 8,000, if this number is exceeded, we may impose login restrictions to prioritize World stability. In the event you wish to transfer to a heavily populated World, please understand this risk. Currently the following Worlds are heavily populated:
  
  <table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="ta01"><tr valign="middle" align="center" class="th01"><td bgcolor="#f5cca2" class="th01" width="50%">Japan Data Center</td><td bgcolor="#f5cca2" class="th01" width="50%">NA/EU Data Center</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Alexander</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Behemoth</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Anima</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Cactuar</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Atomos</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Excalibur(LEGACY)</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Carbuncle</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Hyperion(LEGACY)</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Fenrir</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Moogle(EU)</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Garuda</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Ultros</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Ifrit</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5"></td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Ramuh</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3"></td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Tiamat</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5"></td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Titan</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3"></td></tr></table>
  Please keep this in mind if you're thinking about transferring to one of the above Worlds. Also, if you and your friends plan on congregating on a specific World, it would be best to avoid the above in order to have a stable play environment.
  
  Risk of gil loss
  When transferring Worlds, in the event the destination World is a new World, in order to prevent the transportation of RMT gil, there will be limitations on the amount of gil that you can bring to the destination World. This is a critical specification in order to protect the economic conditions on each World, so before transferring, please keep this in mind. In the event you transfer Worlds and you exceed the gil limit, the amount that exceeds the limit will be lost.
  
  Risk of a period where you cannot log in
  It's difficult for us to predict the amount of people that will be applying for a transfer during the free period. You will need to be logged out for the transfer to occur and we will be transferring characters in the order that was requested. In the event that there are a large amount of applications then there is the possibility that you will not be able to log in for a couple of days. We will keep an eye on the congestion and make announcements regarding this, but in the worst case scenario, please understand that you may not be able to log in for a couple of days until the transfer has been completed.

• Warning if you are transferring to a specific World because you like the name

  Due to the character creation restrictions that were imposed after the official launch of service, there may be cases where you really wanted to play on Chocobo, but made a character on a different server. By using the World Transfer Service, you will be able to move to the World of your choice. However, as I mentioned above, in the event that the destination World is heavily populated, there is a possibility that login restrictions will be imposed during peak times. Please carefully consider this when making your decision.
  

• Warning if you are moving to a World with multiple friends

  In the event you have four friends who had to make characters on four separate Worlds, you can use the World Transfer Service to all meet up on a single World. However, please make sure that the destination World is not overpopulated for all of you. Transferring with multiple people will affect the population, so we recommend selecting a World that has a comparatively lower population so that peak times are stable.
  
  <table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="ta01"><tr valign="middle" align="center" class="th01"><td bgcolor="#f5cca2" class="th01" width="50%">Japan Data Center</td><td bgcolor="#f5cca2" class="th01" width="50%">NA/EU Data Center</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Asura</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Coeurl</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Belias</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Brynhildr</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Pandaemonium</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Faerie</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Unicorn</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Famfrit</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Yojimbo</td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Goblin</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Zeromus</td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Lamia</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5"></td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Lich(EU)</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3"></td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Malboro</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5"></td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Mateus</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td02"><td bgcolor="#fffaf3"></td><td bgcolor="#fffaf3">Siren</td></tr><tr valign="center" class="td01"><td bgcolor="#f6efe5"></td><td bgcolor="#f6efe5">Zalera</td></tr></table>
  The above Worlds have a good amount of room, even during peak times, and are also a good destination for those who are just starting FFXIV: ARR. These are great choices for those of you wishing to transfer with multiple people, so please consider these.
  

I apologize that there were those of you who were unable to select the World of your choice due to character creation restrictions. We will be announcing details and rules for the World Transfer Service in the coming days.

Thank you so much for your continued support for FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

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Yay!!!!!!! Thank you for the update. Now just to get a date! I cannot wait.

Thank you SE team for getting what is important for the players together. Also, for the free transfer services. Can't wait!

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings, everyone!

As mentioned previously, the World Transfer Service is scheduled to begin soon and Yoshi-P has organized a bit of information about this before the official announcement is made.

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Woot!

Just curious, will we have to re-hire our retainers (like from 1.0 characters) if they duplicate names?

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Originally Posted by Mychael

Woot!

Just curious, will we have to re-hire our retainers (like from 1.0 characters) if they duplicate names?

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I'd hope they have something planned, since they didn't say we couldn't have items on the retainers, just none listed on the market boards.

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Originally Posted by Elegance

I'd hope they have something planned, since they didn't say we couldn't have items on the retainers, just none listed on the market boards.

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I had to re-hire and re-name them, but they kept items. I assume they'll do the same thing, I'm just secretly sad I'll have to rename my retainers...not that anyone will ever actually get to see their names. (*crosses fingers for having them in player housing*)

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I had to re-hire and re-name them, but they kept items. I assume they'll do the same thing, I'm just secretly sad I'll have to rename my retainers...not that anyone will ever actually get to see their names. (*crosses fingers for having them in player housing*)

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Ah alrighty, yea that would be nice, for people to see my retainers running about once we get our houses eventually :P

Oh boo... no Legacy->New world transfer at the start... so it won't be a free world transfer for me to join my friends in other world then...

Thankfully all of my friends ended up the same server, but reading this I think it would be nice to give people a heads up with at least a rough idea of the gil cap. Is it around 50,000? 100,000? 500,000? 1,000,000+?

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Originally Posted by Rabbio

Thankfully all of my friends ended up the same server, but reading this I think it would be nice to give people a heads up with at least a rough idea of the gil cap. Is it around 50,000? 100,000? 500,000? 1,000,000+?

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One could conceivably circumvent the gil cap by buying expensive items and reselling them after transfer. Just saying.

Great.

Now just a question of when and how much.

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One could conceivably circumvent the gil cap by buying expensive items and reselling them after transfer. Just saying.

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Oh certainly. But I think it would be nicer to people to be able to plan which items (and roughly how many) to pick up before they hit the Mog Station and it warns them they will lose money...

I just think a system isn't implemented properly if you have to go 90% in to find the final restrictions, cancel your transaction, log into the game to remedy the restriction, and then try again.

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Originally Posted by Rabbio

Oh certainly. But I think it would be nicer to people to be able to plan which items (and roughly how many) to pick up before they hit the Mog Station and it warns them they will lose money...

I just think a system isn't implemented properly if you have to go 90% in to find the final restrictions, cancel your transaction, log into the game to remedy the restriction, and then try again.

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Agreed. Even if they try to conceal it, though, we'll all know via these forums (and others) within minutes.

That said, I would guess it'll be in the official lodestone announcement.

I wonder if there will be a few days of free transfers when Legacy -> New world transfers will be avaiable too...

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Originally Posted by Mychael

One could conceivably circumvent the gil cap by buying expensive items and reselling them after transfer. Just saying.

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unless all the items are worth 50% less gil on the destination world. or maybe gil is just worth 50% more... whichever way you want to look at it..

Can someone explain to me why Legacy to New World is a bad idea?

Only thing I can think of is gil. But wouldn't the cap remedy that?

OK so you can buy expensive items with gil over the cap and resell. What's to stop others going from New to New doing the same? Why not impose some sort of cap on that what will transfer to only able to transfer Ex items? That way the AF, Primal Weapons and other like items will transfer. At least it's giving Legacy an option.

what about people who are on legacy servers who are not legacy players? cant be too hard to figure out who started in 1.0 and who started in ARR. only reason im the realm im on was because it was the first open one I found, with the plan to server transfer as soon as it opened up. if I knew about this, I would have chosen a different server

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Can someone explain to me why Legacy to New World is a bad idea?

Only thing I can think of is gil. But wouldn't the cap remedy that?

OK so you can buy expensive items with gil over the cap and resell. What's to stop others going from New to New doing the same? Why not impose some sort of cap on that what will transfer to only able to transfer Ex items? That way the AF, Primal Weapons and other like items will transfer. At least it's giving Legacy an option.

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Already tried that. Didn't come off as a very popular idea. :/ Hopefully SE will come up with a suggestion for us, though.

So because I payed for this game back when it was a piece of shit I don't get to move to the same server as my friends? It doesn't even make sense given they plan to place restrictions on the amount of gil you can bring over.

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Originally Posted by NeoZehel

You apparently did not read the entirety of this thread. There were transfers announced for the beginning of October with first 5 days free.

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You're right I didn't.

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

In the future, we will look at economic conditions on new Worlds and plan on making it possible to transfer from Legacy Worlds to new Worlds; however, this option will not be available at the start of the World Transfer Service.

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Bull. Shit.
Players on highly congested Legacy worlds get to stay there even longer. And not join their friends on other worlds. Nice.

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So because I payed for this game back when it was a piece of shit I don't get to move to the same server as my friends? It doesn't even make sense given they plan to place restrictions on the amount of gil you can bring over.

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I hear ya. Funny how being Legacy has stopped feeling like a bonus. Uprooting several of my friends makes a lot more sense than just letting me move to them, right? If I accept the thanks that Legacy status was supposed to bring, I have to become a jerk who screws over all of my friends in the process. Awesome way to give a gift, guys. Thanks.

With transfers between legacy and non-legacy servers only going one way, I hope that they're also going to be making more legacy servers. Otherwise we get double screwed by this.

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In the future, we will look at economic conditions on new Worlds and plan on making it possible to transfer from Legacy Worlds to new Worlds; however, this option will not be available at the start of the World Transfer Service.

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Economic conditions? Need I remind you that it was only a couple of weeks ago that measures had to be introduced to relieve the economic stress of ALL servers due to a game-wide gil shortage? (Yes, Legacy players were bled dry by repairs by then too.) I'm pretty sure that the emergency gil patch that we received already speaks for you being well aware of economic conditions. But let's just forget the fact that all servers have relatively little gil now. Let's ignore how new servers especially are in desperate need of some economic stimulation. Let's brush all of that under the rug and act like the great gil depression of a whopping two weeks ago never happened, so we can make people believe that introducing money to suffering economies is a bad idea. Really now? Where is the sense in this? I'd really like to see some data backing up the claim that this type of transfer would be a bad idea. You showed us a chart comparing the level distribution of new and Legacy servers. When can we see a chart showing the average player gil in both economies?

If the economy is truly a concern of yours, try sticking it to the RMT accounts before they can level their teleporting bots to 50, or before you let them spend 72 hours shout spamming in the game's most populated areas without anyone monitoring them. Taking the economy issues out on your 1.0 loyals like this is not the way to fix things. It only screws over our friends, crowds our servers, and prevents us from stimulating hurting economies.

Good news, at last i can play with good latency in JP server soon :D

So my question is if an entire FC moves from one server to another will we lose our company chest items and money associated with it?

So is it anyone in a legacy world cannot transfer to a regular world or legacy players?

What happens if I decide to move to server X and there is no character there named as my character. Will I not be able to change my character`s name?

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Originally Posted by gigi_frana

What happens if I decide to move to server X and there is no character there named as my character. Will I not be able to change my character`s name?

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If you want to change your character's name, then create a character with your name on the server you want to move to. That way, you'll be forced to rename your character.

Just thought of something. Will we be allowed multiple server transfers during the free period? Say, we chose another Legacy server, it turned out to be just as jam-packed as ours, so we head right back to our server?
I'm guessing no.

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Originally Posted by Ashkandi

So my question is if an entire FC moves from one server to another will we lose our company chest items and money associated with it?

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You have to drop your FC before applying for transfer... so basically you would have to disband the whole FC so that all their members can move to a new server.

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You have to drop your FC before applying for transfer... so basically you would have to disband the whole FC so that all their members can move to a new server.

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Thanks for clarification Mere.

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Thanks for clarification Mere.

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Actually yoshi has stated that hes working on a way to transfer an entire fc and multiple characters.

With the gil cap introduced I don't really see a reason why Legacy characters shouldn't be able to transfer. Even if everyone is level 50 with all classes it doesn't really matter because we have that kind of people on the new servers as well. If it's just about the economy there's nothing to worry about. It's the RMTs. Hell I'd be glad to lose all my items (except the Rare/ex) ones to play with my friends.

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With the gil cap introduced I don't really see a reason why Legacy characters shouldn't be able to transfer. Even if everyone is level 50 with all classes it doesn't really matter because we have that kind of people on the new servers as well. If it's just about the economy there's nothing to worry about. It's the RMTs. Hell I'd be glad to lose all my items (except the Rare/ex) ones to play with my friends.

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I think it's because some people have everything at lv50 in Legacy while I am not sure people ahve all their gathering/crafting at 50 on new servers yet
So they do have an advantage on the market

"Sigh" I was so happy that it was finally coming... only to see
"Transfer from Legacy Worlds to new Worlds; however, this option will not be available at the start of the World Transfer Service."

And Excalibur is populated like hell, so them transferring there wouldn't make much sense.
So playing with my friends will have to wait further..............

An EU player caught on a NA server is not an amusing tale

Lol expect transfers to be delayed. Typica se. They say mid sept probably mid oct. They said early oct? Probably ealry december



Yoshi is like a politician, keeps on making promises he cant commit to

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings, everyone!
As mentioned previously, the World Transfer Service is scheduled to begin soon and Yoshi-P has organized a bit of information about this before the official announcement is made.

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In the future, we will look at economic conditions on new Worlds and plan on making it possible to transfer from Legacy Worlds to new Worlds; however, this option will not be available at the start of the World Transfer Service. We appreciate your understanding.

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what a nice up yours to Legacy players. thanks lots, I'll be canceling my subscription till you add the ability for me to move my Legacy char to a world I want to be on instead of forcing me to stay on this legacy world where I know nobody. Its BS I know players on regular worlds who have far surpassed any legacy player I have met

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I think it's because some people have everything at lv50 in Legacy while I am not sure people ahve all their gathering/crafting at 50 on new servers yet
So they do have an advantage on the market

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this is just an excuse, nothing more. SE didnt pull anything like this on XI when they brought it to the PS2(yes I know they didnt remake the game but the comparison is sound new player vs old player) in the USA so sorry but its still just an excuse. especially when the majority of the players who want to move are Legacy so they can play with their friends on NON-Legacy worlds

Question: If you are a new player and rolled on a legacy server since every single NA server was full can you transfer to a new server? Are you guys going to look at the characters on the account before applying restrictions?