[Dev Help Please] Character Transfers Early

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Originally Posted by RaphaelDDL

Great. I wonder how you guys will manage transfer for servers that are currently 'blocked' from new character creations.

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They are open at off-peak times, like late night and early mornings. I have had 4 people make new characters on Hyperion in the last 2 weeks.

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Originally Posted by RaphaelDDL

Great. I wonder how you guys will manage transfer for servers that are currently 'blocked' from new character creations.

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Thanks for announcing something 95% of the player base is going to be happy about SE, but I MUST WHINE ABOUT IT STILL!

I don't want people transferring to my server because it wqas created after the intial launch.

I dont wan't a million lvl 50s running around when they werent here with the server to grind for it.. Ruining the economy and such.

Transfers to all the other servers that were available at launch? fine.

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Originally Posted by MeisterToxx

I don't want people transferring to my server because it wqas created after the intial launch.

I dont wan't a million lvl 50s running around when they werent here with the server to grind for it.. Ruining the economy and such.

Transfers to all the other servers that were available at launch? fine.

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Because no non-legacy server has a million lvl 50s around and an abundance of things in the economy...

i posted my thoughts on this issue in some other buried thread and while this
is good news for a large player base my disappointment on this matter has not
changed. i am sure i am not alone here in that i am part of a large ff11 community
who were very eager and excited to make the transition to ff14 upon release.
congestion issues were absolutely expected and honestly were not a real concern
as i knew SE would resolve those problems as quickly as they could. the problem
is the fact that the community i was to be a part of were all split up across servers
in JP, EU, and NA. some of us have been playing solo while others were lucky to
at least be with 1 or 2 friends. because of this, the experience of learning the game
with our friends, leveling, doing dungeons as a group, and progression during these
early levels has been ruined. this is not going to be fixed with an apology and an
assurance that world transfers will now begin somewhere in early october.

Bump agree and posted similar myself

I hate to be negative but I just think it's ridiculous that everyone that started from launch will have had to pay at least 1 month of game time in order for the opportunity to transfer to play with friends.

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Originally Posted by midnightb

i posted my thoughts on this issue in some other buried thread and while this
is good news for a large player base my disappointment on this matter has not
changed. i am sure i am not alone here in that i am part of a large ff11 community
who were very eager and excited to make the transition to ff14 upon release.
congestion issues were absolutely expected and honestly were not a real concern
as i knew SE would resolve those problems as quickly as they could. the problem
is the fact that the community i was to be a part of were all split up across servers
in JP, EU, and NA. some of us have been playing solo while others were lucky to
at least be with 1 or 2 friends. because of this, the experience of learning the game
with our friends, leveling, doing dungeons as a group, and progression during these
early levels has been ruined. this is not going to be fixed with an apology and an
assurance that world transfers will now begin somewhere in early october.

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I didn't see this before and wanted to point out how much I agree with this. Just so you know it's a lot.

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Originally Posted by RaphaelDDL

Great. I wonder how you guys will manage transfer for servers that are currently 'blocked' from new character creations.

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Well, a transfer of an established character shouldn't add to new character area congestion. But in a similar issue, the ARR world transfer news item does say: "Due to fluctuations in World populations, certain Worlds may not be available for transfer." Consider a worst case: thousands want to transfer to Hyperion or another of the most-full worlds. Impossible situation.

October is also when Yoshida mentioned they would start adding new worlds. I wonder if it's related. Like in FFXI, SE let people apply to transfer to new worlds for free when they opened new worlds, and that would probably relieve some pressure on currently over-full worlds. Last week Yoshi-P posted that he plans to address a lot of questions and complications of world transfers players may have in another post before transfers become available.

What they should do is take a poll ahead of time to get an idea of where people are going. So then they could project future populations for each world.
All I want is to be able to consolidate my characters onto 1 or 2 worlds. Like most people I managed to squeak in a charcter here or there when the login issues were going on.

I saw this

This is an optional paid service that allows characters from active service accounts for FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn to be transferred to a World of your chooosing.
* Due to fluctuations in World populations, certain Worlds may not be available for transfer.
* World transfer service is scheduled to begin mid-September.

So we will have to pay more money to transfer to our friends, even after we were locked out in the first place? this is pretty low to do to your customers?

Well I guess I'll just have to transfer characters the hard way...with the delete and repeat. We've all come to play a game right?

Has there been any word about allowing transfers of v2.0 characters created a legacy server to a non-legacy server? I know they weren't allowing 1.0 characters to transfer during beta, but what about 2.0 characters?

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Originally Posted by delphinius81

Has there been any word about allowing transfers of v2.0 characters created a legacy server to a non-legacy server? I know they weren't allowing 1.0 characters to transfer during beta, but what about 2.0 characters?

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I'm in the same boat as you. I wanted to roll on Behemoth, but at the time I created my character, all NA servers were locked, and so I ended up creating a character on Durandal (legacy). Now, I just completed my Darklight set and got my relic+1, so it would be very troubling to have to end up rerolling despite being a 2.0 character on a legacy server. I hope SE looks into this issue, as I'm sure there are more than just a handful of us who had to roll on a server we weren't able to choose given the character locks.

Huzzah, now when can we expect to see a name change service to go along with our Fantasia potion?

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Originally Posted by DerpyCubone

Huzzah, now when can we expect to see a name change service to go along with our Fantasia potion?

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I know! Need name change.

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Originally Posted by Arasiel

I know! Need name change.

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:( I misspelled my name but couldn't risk making a new character because of the server lock.

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Originally Posted by DanteMog

I saw this

This is an optional paid service that allows characters from active service accounts for FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn to be transferred to a World of your chooosing.
* Due to fluctuations in World populations, certain Worlds may not be available for transfer.
* World transfer service is scheduled to begin mid-September.

So we will have to pay more money to transfer to our friends, even after we were locked out in the first place? this is pretty low to do to your customers?

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This is really outdated. The first round of transfers will be free and it has been pushed to early Oct.

To others, I am completely against name changes and I hope they never implement them. It allows people who troll and AFK in dungeons, etc. an easy out. People starting to remember your name and not wanting to do things with you? Just change your name!

EDIT: I can't seem to find now where it was said that there would be free transfers due to the launch issues, so, until it is confirmed again, I would take it as hearsay.

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Originally Posted by seekerofpower

This is really outdated. The first round of transfers will be free and it has been pushed to early Oct.

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I saw where Yoshi-P and reps said October, but I haven't seen anything where SE said "free" or "only the 1st one is free", or anything like that.

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Originally Posted by seekerofpower

To others, I am completely against name changes and I hope they never implement them. It allows people who troll and AFK in dungeons, etc. an easy out. People starting to remember your name and not wanting to do things with you? Just change your name!

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On The Lodestone I've seen rename notices occasionally while looking through FC members lists, but nowhere else. In every case all 3 names displayed have been identical. For example:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4599/ez7j.jpg

Camate thank you for the information, much appreciated. My whole guild is on Leviathan (130 members) of Hammerfist Clan but 16 of us are on Coeurl. I hope that the rest of us can transfer to Leviathan when transfers happen in October and if not I think the whole Hammerfist Clan (HFC) on Leviathan and Coeurl should be able to transfer to another open server if that is not possible. I think its a real problem when game servers got full 1-2 hours of early access and not actual release. I want to play with my Free Company guild not pugs. I level 50 and sick of doing pugs all the time for end storyline. Get the world transfer service going for October and make it smooth: FC members all on same server, all characters/armor/gear but go as well. Please if you want to ensure you keep the playerbase that have right now, no more mess ups.

My hope is just that they offer free or discounted transfers to start. My husband and I both ended up on a server other than the one our friends are on because of character creation restrictions.

When transferring server, what if on our target server there's someone else that has Exactly same name as me?
I don't want my name changed into

Rurod Arkdale2
http://i.imgur.com/QWBzH63.jpg (<- check the username of Meg Milk, idk how there's 2 on it)

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Originally Posted by Reika

Even worse, your char gets transferred to someone elses account.

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This will be a major LOL

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Originally Posted by Theref

When transferring server, what if on our target server there's someone else that has Exactly same name as me?
I don't want my name changed into

Rurod Arkdale2
http://i.imgur.com/QWBzH63.jpg (<- check the username of Meg Milk, idk how there's 2 on it)



This will be a major LOL

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I saw somewhere that the transferred character will be prompted to rename upon logging in. Can't find source so, meh.

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Originally Posted by OrganizationXIll

I saw somewhere that the transferred character will be prompted to rename upon logging in. Can't find source so, meh.

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That's what SE has done in the past (FFXI, FFXIV). If there's a conflict, it asks you to pick another name the first time you log in to that world.

The two times FFXIV has done transfers before, it's been like this where lots of people would be choosing lots of destinations all at once. Instead of individual requests, there was an application period, and a Web page where you could see each world's population and if it was accepting transfers. (Those statuses could change during the application period.) When the application period ended, they did all the transfers while all worlds were offline. Maybe this time will be the same.

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Originally Posted by ArkhamNative

That's what SE has done in the past (FFXI, FFXIV). If there's a conflict, it asks you to pick another name the first time you log in to that world.

The two times FFXIV has done transfers before, it's been like this where lots of people would be choosing lots of destinations all at once. Instead of individual requests, there was an application period, and a Web page where you could see each world's population and if it was accepting transfers. (Those statuses could change during the application period.) When the application period ended, they did all the transfers while all worlds were offline. Maybe this time will be the same.

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I hope so. I wish that page you are referring to would be available all the time. xD

Hello,

We've seen questions from users asking us to clarify about what happens if the World you are transferring to already has a character with the same name as you. In this case, the person moving into that World would be prompted to select a new name.

In other words, the person already residing on that World would retain their name.

hurray !!!! i can play the game with my friends again!!!!

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We've seen questions from users asking us to clarify about what happens if the World you are transferring to already has a character with the same name as you. In this case, the person moving into that World would be prompted to select a new name.

In other words, the person already residing on that World would retain their name.

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Would this be the only method one can change their character name? Or would a name change service be provided as part of the Optional Services at the Mog Station in the future?

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We've seen questions from users asking us to clarify about what happens if the World you are transferring to already has a character with the same name as you. In this case, the person moving into that World would be prompted to select a new name.

In other words, the person already residing on that World would retain their name.

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Out of curiosity, when this world transfer begins in October, will players be able to transfer to any world? Or will players currently on legacy worlds have to stay on legacy worlds? For people worrying about economy abuse, just implement a gil cap during the transfer and bind all equipment / inventory to the player (make it unsellable). That should solve any problems.

I'm sure Legacies will be allowed to move. The gap between them and newer players had shrunk and the new worlds have established their economies even if they aren't 100% stable.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I'm sure Legacies will be allowed to move. The gap between them and newer players had shrunk and the new worlds have established their economies even if they aren't 100% stable.

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I can see SE wanting to isolate the v1 characters with most classes Lv50 and over 20M gil, but there are a lot that don't have anything near that. On the other hand, if 4 straight weeks of 24-hour teleport-hack gather-bots and non-stop RMT ads haven't tanked the economies, maybe nothing will. :)

But seriously, I would like to see it happen sooner than later. It's kind of confusing running 2 characters on 2 different servers. :p

I'm just patiently waiting. JPN latency issues make heavy dungeons (Titan, stone vigil, etc) near impossible on the weekends as I get hit with AoE regardless. My fave was Titan knocking me off as I ran past him and to the opposite side :/

Are my class skills transferable without all characters being on the same world? Or am I over thinking things...

Will Characters on Say NA/EU servers be able to transfer to JP servers, as my friends went to Tonberry as its closer to Australia and Behemoth was locked, we were on Behemoth due to so many Aussies there we had no Clue Tonberry was Aussie too...

Just want to know if we will get the option to switch Data servers.

patiently waiting... waiting ... waiting ... waiting ...

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I'm sure Legacies will be allowed to move. The gap between them and newer players had shrunk and the new worlds have established their economies even if they aren't 100% stable.

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Anyone who has a Legacy character and who's started a new one elsewhere will know just how mega-rich their V1 toon is in comparison to most of the non-gil-buying population on the new servers.

please add me to the list that want to transfer, my 1.0 char is sitting on Ragnarok where I know nobody and frankly I think that if a 1.0 char was under level 10 before the 1.0 worlds shut down they should not have been required to stay on the legacy worlds. I was barely able do anything on 1.0 and I want to move that char to where my friends are

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Originally Posted by Ailyia

Would this be the only method one can change their character name? Or would a name change service be provided as part of the Optional Services at the Mog Station in the future?

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Technically - you can create a character on the world you want to move to with your current name (or your friend can) so then during the transfer it will initiate the name change prompt as well and then delete the new temp character. If you want to change the name on the same world, just move back again (assuming indeed that it would be allowed or that there will be no some kind of "cooldown" prior next transfer of the same character etc.). And indeed you'll get charged for two transfers in that case but if it's woth for changing the name it's up to you ...

As in October 1st? October 7th? Come on. Can you just state a specific date? It's been over a month since I've been able to hang online with my friends. Is a date really that hard to commit to?

smooth transfer, and not another sell on trickery we hope

Been waiting a long time to play with friends