lol. Did you completely miss out on the whole part where there wasn't a way to contact your 1.0 friends so basically you're going to blind transfer to a NA server ditching your friends or wait for P4/launch to see where you'd like to transfer? Oh my bad. Should have ditched the people I played the game with for years instead. Also expecting a world transfer service at launch, within the first couple weeks, was a ridiculous expectation for a 2013 MMO. Oh my bad again. And don't forget the 20 people who I know from my ls's who all are in the same boat. Add to that the rest of the NA population on my server from 1.0 (5%~ of 750k people to just get a ball park number) and that gives you 37.5k people that can't transfer to a NA server right now.
Thanks for the good read of trying to justify something completely ridiculous. Helping me wake up this Monday morning with all the laughs.
Be honest? Ok.
I didn't follow any of FFXIV until August after my summer semester was over. Prior to that I had a fishing tournament on May 18th and was taking 12 credits over the summer, including engineering math, dynamics, strength of materials and prob stat for engineers. No. Keeping up with beta was not on my list of concerns with that kind of course load. The final date for a server transfer was on July 15th. A month~ before P4 even started where I could speak to my friends about where to move to. How about the people who randomly see "Hey XIV relaunched finally, lemme go check it out since the client is a free download. Oh hey, I'm on a purely JP server now? No server transfer? Forget this.".
Sorry, these are people who live who knows where and I only contact them through ingame chat. We don't skype and 1.0 difficulty was so lol that there was no need for a forums. Same deal with the people I play in game with now. No forums yet. No emails. We talk in game and have a vent. It's not like I have people emails and phone numbers to call when I'm looking to do a CM run.