Open Letter to Naoki Yoshida: When Will Legacy->Non-Legacy World Transfers be Allowed

[Quiz]

I believe yoshi-p said they'd reexamine the economy after 6 months and make a judgement then?

Also lol @ "open letter" being the new buzz topic tag. First it was petitions, then [to the devs] now this :3

[Taruranto]

I believe yoshi-p said they'd reexamine the economy after 6 months and make a judgement then?

Also lol @ "open letter" being the new buzz topic tag. First it was petitions, then [to the devs] now this :3

I don't see why not then.

What economy is left to destroy anyway?

[Quiz]

I don't see why not then.

What economy is left to destroy anyway?

^ this

Besides they already limit the amount of gil and crap you can bring anyways so other than housing prices (if they're not already floored?) and potential personal housing prices, I'm pretty sure nothing is left.

[kukurumei]

Legacy people still do have a lot of...how do you say.. power structure that can fall over to non legacy as a bad thing.

This has yet to changed.

One look at a legacy server and you see primals with ilvl90 PFs and 10 twin PFs all over the place. A non legacy server you would barely get enough to fill the spot with ilvl80s and probably the same faces over and over again, and forget about pugging twin.

Legacy independently moving around...sure why not, but there would be a very big fear if a large portion decided to dump on another server (and one with cheap housing prices), and just blow that world to bits.

[LenneSari]

How would they blow the world to bits? You cannot transfer with your money, they have a cap. Even if you were to drop most of your money on crafting mats and transfer with those, You're going to be taking a huge revenue loss, because prices are pretty much the same legacy/non-legacy. They will have to spend months undercutting just to get their gil back. Twin runs are going to wreck the economy? You mean an entire FC of ilvl 90's are going to run people that have never done Twin through and farm a full set of coil gear? Not quite... Twin can be done with ilvl 80 gear and a lv. 90 weapon, the rest is mechanics. There really is no power structure developed on a non-legacy server that does not exist already on a legacy server. I've transfered 3 times, and one of those I tried to keep the majority of my gil by dumping into crafting mats. I can tell you first hand I lost a lot of money in that endeavor.

[Mere]

Yes, when !?

3 of my friends are currently not playing because their legacy char is stuck in a legacy server. They have pay a month, tried to make new chars in the server I'm playing now, but they rather expend that time on their old chars (I believe everyone here understands that). Then they go and play their legacy chars but get bored a week later because they have no one to play with !! Meanwhile I been building a FC in this non-legacy server, full of nice and awesome people that would be happy to welcome them back into the game.

And yes, I decided for a new server because I figured it would be easier to build a FC on a fresh server than in an already established community, thinking that after a few months they could transfer and we could play together again... but is still not happening !! and the wait is killing us D:

[Sparky]

I'd imagine that what they'd have to do is monitor the average personal wealth of characters on both the legacy and non-legacy servers. When the wealth of players on non-legacy servers matches the amount of Gil that a legacy player could reasonably take with them during transfer, then we migh start seeing further dialog from SE regarding legacy transfers. Until then, I'm sure the consistent answer they would give would be 'Not yet'.

[zsedc]

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Went through the live letters summaries on this forum, Reinhart's translation of the 7th letter in May 2013 and Lodestones topics and notices, what I've found which is definitely no longer valid is

8th letter http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...808-23-2013%29

0:47:37
Q: Are you planning to have a world transfer service?
A: ---This will be a fee-based service that will allow you to transfer to the world of your choice, and it will be possible to transfer up to 8 of your characters. We plan on launching this service around 2-3 weeks after launch.

No timeframes for legacy > non-legacy transfers provided in the other live letters/notices. Dotsusama's link is the more recent mention of legacy > non-legacy transfers. The '6 mths' going around may be just a baseless rumour.

[Johnist]

Went through the live letters summaries on this forum, Reinhart's translation of the 7th letter in May 2013 and Lodestones topics and notices, what I've found which is definitely no longer valid is

8th letter http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...808-23-2013%29


No timeframes for legacy > non-legacy transfers provided in the other live letters/notices. Dotsusama's link is the more recent mention of legacy > non-legacy transfers. The '6 mths' going around may be just a baseless rumour.

6-Months was what had been mentioned on the (deleted) Beta Forums by a couple of the Dev staff. That being as it is, the markets are still not equal, and I'm sure the flood of Transfers from Leg->Non-Leg would just cause a lot of other players the 1017 issues the packed Legacy servers have.

[Quiz]

They shoulda just wiped everyone's gil to 0, woulda avoided all these problems. Legacy players lost 90% of their gil anyways, whats another 10%!!