Transferring Character Data to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Questions

[Alhanelem]

Since the servers were REGION FREE.

They still are region free. If they weren't, we wouldn't have the choice of playing on the JP servers. As I wrote in other threads, the legacy servers remaining in Japan in particular will still have an NA community, along with many english speaking players who live in japan and live in the oceanic region (including Australia)

P:S I want to connect to the Chinese server if they have them. I remember one time I found some Chinese speaking players and it was awesome @@

China will get its own service completely isolated from the rest of the world, per chinese rules. It's basically the only way for an outside business to push their product in China- to offer a version of a product specifically for the chinese market and no one else. Chinese service was announced very early in the game's history though, so unknown if it's still planned or when it will happen.

It was us players who wanted servers in our home countries. So please don’t be so hard on SE for this decision and hopefully they'll reveal Eu and Na servers locations as to reduce lag on my server ...

They are located in Montreal, Canada- fairly close to halfway across the world from Japan- In North America and closer to Europe than Japan is.

[StrikeField]

They still are region free. If they weren't, we wouldn't have the choice of playing on the JP servers. As I wrote in other threads, the legacy servers remaining in Japan in particular will still have an NA community, along with many english speaking players who live in japan and live in the oceanic region (including Australia)


They are located in Montreal, Canada- fairly close to halfway across the world from Japan- In North America and closer to Europe than Japan is.

Since the servers were region free

The verb "be" is the most important verb to learn in English. It's also the most complicated. In the past tense, it has two forms: was and were.
Were ~ is used for plural nouns, in this case serverS. But in any case I never said the servers weren't region free.

V 1.0 servers are no longer active and running with ARR they will have new servers , better servers actually, with cross servers integration. And the beta test are testing and stressing them out. So in this case I'm saying that the two servers both old and new are region free. Or rather the old servers were region free and the new one will continue this.

All of the servers in Canada eh? Can't see how's that's better for EU since its just as far to Japan ><

[Mjollnir]

All of the servers in Canada eh? Can't see how's that's better for EU since its just as far to Japan ><

Montreal's on the East side of Canada; a lot closer to Europe than Japan.

[Zenaku]

Montreal's on the East side of Canada; a lot closer to Europe than Japan.

Yep it's very close maybe that the reason they pick Montreal vs having the datacenter in CA. I think the main reason there not one in UK itself it's because there really is not that big of player base there by the look of it.

[Mjollnir]

Yep it's very close maybe that the reason they pick Montreal vs having the datacenter in CA. I think the main reason there not one in UK itself it's because there really is not that big of player base there by the look of it.

Tell me about it. I know about fifty people IRL here in the UK who play MMOs. I'm the only one who played XIV. It's an uphill struggle trying to get people to give ARR a second shot. I've got three friends to pre-order, five friends who are undecided and forty who consider anything that's not WoW a waste of their time^^

[StrikeField]

I hope we can have server transfer after launch . I'm in Korea so Japan is fine but when I go state side I'd like to transfer T T

At least allow one free transfer or a small fee...

[Zenaku]

Tell me about it. I know about fifty people IRL here in the UK who play MMOs. I'm the only one who played XIV. It's an uphill struggle trying to get people to give ARR a second shot. I've got three friends to pre-order, five friends who are undecided and forty who consider anything that's not WoW a waste of their time^^

Ya i know how you feel all my friends when i was 13+ only played WoW. I only had 3 real life friends who play FFXI with me and one of them is the person who got me into it quit pretty much few months of me getting it.

I'm hoping FFXIV become a big thing but i just have a feeling that it wont. Even tho a lot of people are sick of wow and want something new FFXIV so it may be hard to get people to play a somewhat wow-clone.

I hope we can have server transfer after launch . I'm in Korea so Japan is fine but when I go state side I'd like to transfer T T

At least allow one free transfer or a small fee...

They said that the first year of FFXIV there no point of transfer but they are going to add it at some point.

[PandaTaru]

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All of the servers in Canada eh? Can't see how's that's better for EU since its just as far to Japan ><

most ISP in EU route their traffic to Japan through the U.S. backbones.

[Mjollnir]

most ISP in EU route their traffic to Japan through the U.S. backbones.

Nope. London to Tokyo is via a combination of land and undersea cables passing through the Middle East. Supposedly last year a cable was to be laid linking the two Metropoli via the Arctic Ocean, but there's been no news on that in over a year. Another plan-in-motion is to lay undersea via the Northwest Passage, connecting to Canadia on the way.

Either way, Montreal remains closer.

[PandaTaru]

I said most but then might be different in the UK. from what I saw here in France, Pro/business contract take the more direct route you mentioned but consumers are stuck with the long and cheap route through the U.S. After, yeah, It's a 100ms gain using the ME/Russia route, not something that would improve gameplay by much anyways.

that's how the route looks from my home

C:\Users\xxx>tracert 202.67.53.202

Tracing route to 202.67.53.202 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms xxx.xxx.13x.88.rev.sfr.net [88.13x.1xx.xxx]
3 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 13.114.24.109.rev.sfr.net [109.24.114.13]
4 53 ms 49 ms 49 ms 40gigabitethernet1-1.core1.lon1.he.net [195.66.224.21]
5 115 ms 115 ms 120 ms 10gigabitethernet10-4.core1.nyc4.he.net [72.52.92.241]
6 175 ms 174 ms 175 ms 10gigabitethernet12-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.226]
7 197 ms 196 ms 196 ms pacnet.10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.lax1.he.net [216.218.223.206]
8 286 ms 285 ms 286 ms gi6-0-0.cr1.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.61.166]
9 285 ms 286 ms 285 ms gi1-0-0.gw1.nrt5.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.178]
10 287 ms 286 ms 286 ms squareco.asianetcom.net [203.192.149.210]
11 305 ms 306 ms 305 ms 61.195.56.129
12 284 ms 283 ms 319 ms 219.117.144.66
13 306 ms 306 ms 307 ms 219.117.144.45
14 304 ms 351 ms 303 ms 219.117.146.129
15 306 ms 305 ms 306 ms 219.117.146.102
16 302 ms 303 ms 283 ms 202.67.53.202

Trace complete.