It's become increasingly unfortunate that there still exists the restriction of Legacy players trying to go to a non-legacy server. Personally, I put myself on a Legacy server during Day Two of release since absolutely none of the American servers were open, and Ridill was what it put me on. Now I find it nigh impossible to play endgame on a foreign server, and wish to join my friends on a NA server, but the current restriction prevents my character from moving over.
I'm not sure exactly why the restrictions are still in place, especially with 2.1 around the corner (I think there was something about Legacy servers making more Gil than non-legacy?). Hopefully this issue isn't put on the back burner and forgotten by the developers, because it's hampering my ability to progress through the game.
Legacy to Non-Legacy World transfers
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12-11-2013, 08:03 AMThe_Last_DragoonLegacy to Non-Legacy World transfers
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12-11-2013, 08:20 AMOrophin
I would think everyone should be on an even enough playing field with the release of the next patch that they could open up unrestricted transfers between worlds.
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12-11-2013, 09:03 AMLuso
Personally I would have made a new character by now if I wanted to play on non-legacy. SE is going to take their time with something like this.
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12-11-2013, 09:22 AMQuesse
Cue different housing pricing for Legacy vs non-Legacy worlds.
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12-11-2013, 09:31 AMRathThey stated early on it would be 6 months. I have a legacy character waiting to transfer with about 20 TIV cracked materia (I can trade them in for any TIV materia). This is one of the reasons why allowing a transfer now would cause drastic changes in a non-legacy economy. It is not only the gil that matters, but the items we have from 1.0 that are now harder to get. We used to buy the tome crafting materials for gil in 1.0 from NPCs, some of us have tons of these rare materials and materia.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Last_Dragoon
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12-11-2013, 09:32 AMAlhanelem
I think you mean Cue, not queue.
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12-11-2013, 09:40 AMWaffles
The restrictions are still in place because it created an equal playing field for people on non legacy servers. I'm sorry but you made a really bad decision to role your character on a legacy server. When in doubt when it comes to MMOs ALWAYS take the patient road, never the impatient one.
Now what I don't understand is, with all of the instances being cross server. How is playing on a legacy server impairing your ability to progress in the game? -
12-11-2013, 09:55 AMindira
it because they dont wany anyone owning the market board, even though there is no equal playing field anyways. they should let people transfer. RMT buyers exist they screw up everything anyways. makes no sense.
just wait RMT will be booming when housing comes along, your gonna see people you never farmed or farmed enough to buy stuff that cost alot of gil. -
12-11-2013, 10:34 AMJohnist
The markets of Legacy Servers are still highly different from those of Non-Legacy. I would not expect L->NL until Feb 2014 / 2.15/2.2
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12-11-2013, 10:58 AMamnie
I don't get why people who had that problem on the first few days didn't just reroll as soon as the servers were freeing up. it was specifically states more than once that legacy to non-legacy would not happen any time soon.
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12-11-2013, 12:14 PMReiterpallasch
I'm on a legacy server (Hyperion) and my wife is on non legacy (Leviathan). From what I've seen between our two servers, the markets aren't really all that different. Both AHs are full of T IV materia, ilvl 70 gear, philosophy materials, etc. Some of those items go for more on my server, some go for more on hers. The two markets really aren't that different in any significant way. Those are only two servers out of many, but from what we've seen there's not much that opening transfers would do to hurt the economy in any significant way.
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12-11-2013, 12:57 PMZumi
In a way the limitation is already there you can only bring 3m when you transfer and 1m on each retainer. Thats 5m total. Now a lot of legacay players like like 90+m due to all the gil that was in 1.0. So you really can't transfer off unless you want to have a bunch of your gil deleted.
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12-11-2013, 01:31 PMcloverkitty
It is going to be a very long time before they allow Legacy players to transfer to a non-legacy server. If you go by the averages there is still a large advantage for Legacy players that have everything leveled and a nice stockpile of cracked materia and other now valuable crafting materials they may not have had in the past.
I know they said 6 months but with the other delays I don't realistically see it even being considered until after March.
Being that you are not heavily invested in your character (most classes are level 0, you don't have a ton of crafts, etc). I would highly recommend you look into joining your friends on the non-legacy server with a new character (you can keep your old one).
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12-11-2013, 01:35 PMThe_Last_DragoonIf this is the problem then why don't they just restrict 1.0 characters from transferring to a non-legacy? My character isn't 1.0 and frankly is rather pitiful in comparison to the standard that is apparently being held for Legacy server players. Heck, I would bargain I've got less wealth than 80% of the players on a non-legacy server :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Rath