If this should be on the tech forums, I apologize. But I just had a quick question about moving to a different country.
When I move to Paris, do I need to transfer all my characters, which are currently on NA datacenters, to EU datacenters? Or can I continue to play on NA datacenters?
I have a BUNCH of toons and moving them all will be a hassle and expensive.
Moving to Paris
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12-20-2019, 04:13 AMLiumMoving to Paris
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12-20-2019, 04:27 AMshao32
You can play in the NA datacenters from france without any problem, you will just have higher latency proportional to what coast you come from but thats all, if you wanna play with better ping move 1 char only, don't need to move all of them.
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12-20-2019, 04:54 AMVirusOnline
Just a warning, as I've been in this situation before. Did some work in France. You will most certainly have latency issues if you raid. If you don't, then no worries.
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12-20-2019, 05:26 AMValkyrie_LennethIf they are all on the same server, you can transfer them all for the single fee. The transfer fee is from 1 homeworld to another, not per characterQuote:
Originally Posted by Lium
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12-20-2019, 05:32 AMMrKusakabe
You might get your account "quasi-suspended" for the change of your ISP's location (detected via your IP). So plan in some extra time to talk to the support.
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12-20-2019, 05:33 AMValkyrie_LennethOnly if you don't have a security token enabled.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrKusakabe
The bigger issue will be billing, as you can't change your accounts region. -
12-20-2019, 07:13 AMLiumThis is good to know. So, I'll definitely talk to customer service about this. Sounds like others have moved to different regions without any problems, but I don't want to get there and find out my account has been frozen because of some billing issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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12-20-2019, 07:53 AMLaylaTsarra
I have a friend from France and she has no problems playing on the NA Datacenter. She doesn't raid but I don't think she has a lot of latency. I also play a character on Chocobo in Japan and I don't really detect any difference in playing there than in the States. I'm on the East Coast btw. I would certainly not do anything until you've actually tried it from your new location before making any moves.
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12-20-2019, 08:40 AMSheli54
I have friends from Canada playing on EU DC Chaos (they were on NA DC before). They have no problem, not even for raiding. It should work both ways!
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12-20-2019, 03:36 PMKokonji
As far as I know, there's no region block or ip block (save for the special region like china and south korea which have their own version of ff14)
so you should be able to play from anywhere to any data center, (it may be wise to enable security token, so you wouldn't need to problem yourself with suspended account because of login from different region)
depend on the location, you might experienced some latency issues here and there, (should be easily fixed with a little investment in vpn if you really need those low latency for raiding)
another thing worth mentioning is the currency for billing payment, your billing will still using your usual currency tied to your account (if you have NA account, and move to France, you still need to pay using USD instead of EUR) so be prepared for some currency rate calculation. Don't worry about your actual location will be different with your account region, those player in "unsupported" country have been play well with this difference, so it should be fine. -
12-20-2019, 04:40 PMTheodric
As a heads up, the ping will likely be difficult to adjust to if you decide to stay on one of the NA servers. I'm from the UK and started out on the NA servers - I adjusted to the ping. Having finally made the decision recently to move over to one of the EU servers I've found that the difference is night and day. Loading screens are instant. I have much more time to escape AoE's. I can play MCH without abilities not registering. It's pretty great.
As an aside, you only need to purchase one server transfer and you can move up to eight characters over at once. -
12-20-2019, 04:44 PMValkyrie_LennethOnly if they are on the same home world. If they are on different ones you have to pay for each homeworld transferQuote:
Originally Posted by Theodric
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12-20-2019, 05:11 PMTlamila
You don't have to move, but if you want decent ping you really should. My gameplay changed completely when they put in EU servers and I moved.
if you move to a preferred world you don't have to pay anything by the way, and you also get some in game benefits. -
12-20-2019, 05:48 PMValkyrie_LennethIt has to be a move from a congested world to a preferred world. Otherwise it's not freeQuote:
Originally Posted by Tlamila
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12-21-2019, 10:15 AMBrill_I've had this happen a few times. Never had to talk to tech support. They just locked my account and forced me to change my password. Once I changed my password, got in just fine. IIRc they did ask for one of the security questions that are set on your account, OP make sure you know those.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrKusakabe
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12-22-2019, 06:02 AMRasikko
I think Finland is much further distance wise than France, from the US datacenter.. and I played there for some time before moving back to EU and I had fairly decent ping(all this was before Copied Factory though). I guess it also depends on ISP.