Cross-Server Friends List

Are there any plans to add a cross-server friends list feature to the game in the future? I have friends who play, but they're on different servers. I'd really love to be able to queue up for duties with them, since the Duty Finder is already cross-server.

I can make an alt character on another server, but I really don't want to spend time grinding a new character up when I could be spending that time getting gear or leveling alt classes on my main. Of course buying a server transfer is an option, but I also have friends on this server and I don't want to abandon them to go play with someone else.

I just thought I'd post a thread to show that there's at least some demand for a feature that allows us to play with friends on other servers. Competing games have similar features to what I'm suggesting, so I know it's technically feasible to implement. All I want to do is play with a friend without having to abandon my other friends or starting over from scratch.

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me. WoW it doesnt work like that, at least not early MoP. Blizzard has a Blizzard Live ID that makes communicatiion possible, this is something that FFXIV doesnt have

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me. WoW it doesnt work like that, at least not early MoP. Blizzard has a Blizzard Live ID that makes communicatiion possible, this is something that FFXIV doesnt have

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I was actually referring to WoW and Blizzard Live ID. I haven't played WoW since 2006, but my friend who plays told me that you can use Live ID to queue for instances with cross-server friends. He may have been mistaken; he quit WoW a few months back and may have misremembered or misunderstood the feature.

Either way, it seems feasible to implement a feature like that, even if no one else has done it before. The Duty Finder already pairs people from different servers together, so you would just need a system that pairs 2-8 specific people together, instead of just moving down a list of people who are queued.

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me.

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GW2, if my memory serves me right, allows you to have cross-server FL.


EDIT: On FFXIV, you have chars with similar names on different servers. Come to think of it, I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

I do have friends that play on other servers, and while I do have characters on the servers they play on, I still prefer to play my "main" on Leviathan. I also have more friends on Leviathan where-as I only know that one person on, say, Adamantoise, Excalibur, Behemoth and Balmung. Though I have offered to them that if they were to decide to reroll/transfer to Leviathan, then I would happily invite them to my FC.

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Originally Posted by Billie21

GW2, if my memory serves me right, allows you to have cross-server FL.


EDIT: On FFXIV, you have chars with similar names on different servers. Come to think of it, I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

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This already happens if two players with the same name are in the same instance server (doesn't have to be dungeon). The result is that the player who joined later gets a number 2,3,4... added to their name.

This, a thousand times over. I've transferred servers and had to leave friends behind, would be nice to be able to keep in touch with them through a cross server fl of some sort.

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Originally Posted by Billie21

GW2, if my memory serves me right, allows you to have cross-server FL.


EDIT: On FFXIV, you have chars with similar names on different servers. Come to think of it, I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

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The way I want to remember it from FFXI is that your friends list was account-based rather than character-based through PlayOnline, which was one thing I did like about POL.Of course there weren't any instanced events in XI, and I could be wrong in how I'm remembering this I haven't played XI in a number of years now. But I imagine that this sort of system could be made to work in XIV too. Not necessarily a POL-like program, just a cross-server/cross-data center friend list implemented straight into the game would be amazing. I'm not sure how complicated it would be to add to the game at this point, but I'm also not sure why it isn't already in place tbh. Also, having a way to queue up for things together would be awesome but it would only work if the two servers were in the same data center anyways.

It would be pretty funny to see two different characters on two different classes with the same name pop up in DF though. Even worse if they were both dps. xD

Yeah, GW2 allows cross-server friends, and you can also be invited as a "guest" to their server to play with them, with your current character. No need to level up an alt or anything. It's quite nice :(

Personally, I'd be content with being able to send moogle mail to friends on other servers.

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Originally Posted by TheHolmcross

Personally, I'd be content with being able to send moogle mail to friends on other servers.

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And this is, I think, why we don't have cross-server friends lists. The potential for RMT to abuse this is high. Hack an account/farm millions of gil, mail it to an RMT alt on another server. Makes it easy for them to keep their farming to a 'dump' server.

They could add a second level friendship that is SE account based. After you befriend someone you could get an extra popup if you wish to befriend via their account as well so that even if they move to a diff server you can still have them in the friends list and stuff that way.

All this RMT limitations nonsense really makes me wanting to do mean things. Like kicking puppies, shiving lalas, throwing someone of Highbridge.


When making a system with Letterboxes (with pommels) which seems like its taken from WoW, why not also include Postage and MoD function.

We can't do this and that because of RMT, tells in dungeons, talking to FC/LS within PVP, any form of trading in Dungeons, send letters to people outside of out Friendlist, add alts to out Friendlist.

COME ON

RMT put so much criminal energy into what they do, they simply don't CARE about those things.

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Not having a cross-server FL has nothing to do with combating RMT, you would need to accept the friend request anyway. The problem is that stuff like that is not exactly easy to implement, especially now when dataservers are no longer directly connected to each other.

Put it this way. Allowing to queue up in DF with the chocobo up is very hard to implement, implementing a cross-server FL is even harder.

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me. WoW it doesnt work like that, at least not early MoP. Blizzard has a Blizzard Live ID that makes communicatiion possible, this is something that FFXIV doesnt have

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WOW lets you do anything you want on a cross server friends list except for current raids, however this is getting changed soon or already has, you even pop into the raid leaders realm and interact with players on that server to a degree and vice versa ^^. Theres even a PF in WOW that lets you find people even cross realm or sign up on its group finder that advertises cross realm and basically can do what you want, even questing :).

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me. WoW it doesnt work like that, at least not early MoP. Blizzard has a Blizzard Live ID that makes communicatiion possible, this is something that FFXIV doesnt have

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Erm...WoW lets you friend people from other servers and lets you group up with them and run dungeons/pvp/etc...

Of course feature wise WoW tends to be 2-3 years ahead of everyone else...Which is a shame cuz I tend to find WoW really boring =/ Wish other companies would keep up with the features WoW comes out with.

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Originally Posted by Ransu

Erm...WoW lets you friend people from other servers and lets you group up with them and run dungeons/pvp/etc...

Of course feature wise WoW tends to be 2-3 years ahead of everyone else...Which is a shame cuz I tend to find WoW really boring =/ Wish other companies would keep up with the features WoW comes out with.

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In terms of server tech, no one can match blizzard right now, its not even funny, no one can really match them or catch up, they pretty much have the best in the business working on the servers.

I'd love this. Even if it didn't have any of the functionality of wow's cross server friend list it would be nice to just speak to people I know who play elsewhere.

That said, the odds of this happening are below zero. SE is determined to keep us isolated. I'd hope for simply being able to use tells in dungeons before something like this.

Agreed.

I created a thread on this in the UI Section (to create a new UI "Cross-Server Friends List") a while back:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...st-and-Parties

Hopefully something like this gets implemented in the future.

It WILL take a lot of work, to be sure, but it's worth it to increase the sense of Community and build friendships (and open up possible Cross-Server Friends Invite to Parties to Raid, etc.). :D

That would actually be cool! if it's possible, why not even be able to LS invite!!!
Chatting all day long :D

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Originally Posted by raelgun

In terms of server tech, no one can match blizzard right now, its not even funny, no one can really match them or catch up, they pretty much have the best in the business working on the servers.

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Sad but true.

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Originally Posted by Billie21

I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

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Happened to me on 30/12/2013, met another "Scott Pilgrim" while doing "Labyrinth of the Ancients" and he was kind enough to hang around after so we could grab a screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/ZUJ6SGS.png

(I'm on the left from Sargatanas and he said he was from Faerie)