Suggestion for legacy server transfers

It would be nice if characters on legacy servers could transfer to other worlds, even if there were greater restrictions. I know the reason given for legacy server characters not being able to transfer is the economy on given worlds. I currently have three real-life friends playing on a non-legacy server that I would like to transfer to. I have less than 300,000 gil, and would even be willing to give some of that up if I could join my friends. I feel that drastically lowering the amount of money that is transferable would make a fair balance, while helping to preserve the economy on a non-legacy world. On top of this, the server I am trying to transfer to is Leviathan, a non-legacy server that has been available since day 1 of this game. I am hoping this can become possible, especially during the free-transfer period.

I fully agree... I have like 50k on my character and I want to xfer to Siren, that's where my FFXI friends went when Excalibur was unavailable. I don't really understand the reasoning for the restriction, as those of us who truly want to switch have no objection to giving up more stuff to play with our friends.

Please SE, pretty pretty please... set a tighter restriction and let us xfer. We don't care about the gil, we do care about playing with our friends... and not mid 2014, now while everyone is roughly around the same level.

I agree this seems like a stupid restriction. I have a hunch that it is actually some technical aspect that is causing this restriction. I mean now that world transfers are going to be paid and now that the gil limit has been changed to 1mil/100k it just doesn't make sense. I too would like to play with my RL friends, but don't want to abandon my 1.0 character. Which at this point seems like the only option even though I'm not a legacy character. I really wish they would just come out with a time line and say 6 weeks, 6 months, whatever. Having no idea is becoming frustrating. If it continues much longer I may just unsub and wait. I mean if I start a new character I'll be so far behind my RL friends it'll take me a month or more to catch up, and if I wait for server transfers I'll still be behind (unless the happen in the next few weeks). They may be RL friends, but they aren't going to wait forever for me to lvl/transfer. But if I don't have peeps to play with it gets a little boring.

I could not access Beta due to some SE technical error and could not transfer then.

Now we are barred from joining non-legacy servers. My friends from FFXI (more than 10 years) have moved on and I can't join them and I had subscribed 6 months to this game...... I'm stuck and without any announcement from SE. Got to play solo in a MMORPG....... what a joke.

1mil, 100k per retainer is very restricting on gil movement already. It will not affect an economy with billions of gil circulating. It is not going to impact any server economy much. To be continued......

Some servers are still deserted to be honest and legacy servers are getting more crowded since people can't move out! The world population per server is entirely uneven at this point of time and legacy will get more crowded. No logic at all in 'destroying' the legacy servers. The purpose of world transfer is to even out the people across all servers, not cluster them at legacy servers. Does not make sense. SE's logic and development team does not really know how to analyze the situation tbh. Don't think there will be any surge of new people joining the game since it has been 2 months since launch.

Economy should be stable at this point of time or soon to be stable. Opening up the 10+ legacy servers (probably 100,000 players) will not affect much when there are more than 1million subscribers to this game. That is only 10% or less......

i unfortunately moved to a legacy server to play with a friend and now i'm stuck here cause i thought the transfer restrictions were only on legacy characters only to find out i'm effected as well. Sorta close to rage quitting because im stuck somewhere i'm not even useful or acknowledge to even have 50 jobs because everyone all ready has their cliques and friends they wanted to play with and my friend rage quit....

Yeah, I think I am going to let my subscription lapse until they fix this. I cannot play with my friends right now. Even if I COULD transfer, I missed the free transfer period. I am not even any threat to the economy on any server. I have always loved Square-Enix games, even when they were 2 different companies, but I do not understand their administrative policies.

The game has been out for 2 months, in that time you have players on non-legacy who are 50 in multiple classes, more than likely have a few who are 50 in all classes. Switch to a non-legacy with a new char, within a week you'll have level 50, unless you go all out in which case 2-3 days. In other words, in 1-2 weeks you will be at the current stage you're at now (maybe sooner as you're now "experienced"). As you're going to where all your friends are you'll have friends to do the dungeons with, rather than DF, get to 50 and you'll have friends to do HM/Relic with etc.

The game isn't so dull it takes 12 months to reach cap, it's quick, it's easy, so there isn't any real excuse for not starting fresh (I started fresh on my Legacy world and am lazy, really, really lazy, still have 7 50's without even trying).

Or you can wait 6 months, by which time your friends may have moved on and the justification for moving will be gone anyhow.

This "suggestion" has already been made 1000 times, the horse is dead and has been beaten to a bloody pulp. They WILL make transfers off legacy worlds possible, but only after the gap between legacy and nonlegacy worlds has shrunk further (To the point where they could remove the distinction and it would be hard to tell the difference other than special items)

Gotta keep in mind even if you restrict the amount of gil you can carry over, there's the issue of bringing a lot of valuable items. It's probably just a big hassle for SE to set up manual restrictions on every item that might be bringing too much cash into the economy even if it's not hard gil.

Hence waiting a bit before they enable the transfers, which they said they will do.

Would be very frustrated being stuck too though.