Quote Originally Posted by Yoshi-P
■キャラクタデータの引き継ぎについて■
Concerning the carry-over of character datas

プレイヤーキャラクタデーターは、開発体制移行時にもお約束している通り、
このままプレイを続けて頂いて、基本的に何らワイプされません。
Like I had promised when we changed into our current development team, current player character data will continue to be saved and will, in principle, not be wiped.

EXPもLvもギルも所持アイテムも、達成済みのクエストフラグも、
開発側で新生データ設計へ、自動的にコンバートさせて頂きます。
どうぞご安心して、プレイを継続してください。
（一部、データ引き継ぎ時点で、途中だったクエストなどの個別フラグなどは、
クエスト受諾初期状態になるかもしれません。
クリア済みのクエストではなく、あくまで途中だったもの）
Exp, Lv, Gil, Items and the list of completed quests will automatically be converted and carried over to the new FFXIV without loss.
Therefore, please continue to play normally without worry to this issue.
(The exception might be to quests that have already been accepted and currently in-progress. They may be reset to to a status where you didn't receive the quest at all)

これはFFXIVのアカウントをお持ちで、キャラクタデータが作成されていれば、
どなたのキャラクタでもデータ移行させて頂きます。
The above holds true to whoever has a FFXIV account and is in possession of Character Data.
In possession of Character data meaning currently paying? I'm surprised no one has mentioned this part yet. It could be taken two ways (the bolded)

Possession as in "I have created it therefore I am in the possession of Character Data" or possession as in "I am paying for it therefore I am in possession of the Character Data". Either way can make sense, scary thing is he mentions something about taking a select bit of items to be converted to the new servers (since they are different apparently) so it wouldn't be too far fetch to make the claim that they won't be converting characters that have been inactive for over a select amount of months to save on the time needed to convert all characters to the new servers.

Either way, I will be playing/paying so it doesn't matter to me much, but to others, you might need some clarification and possibly might have to pay for 1 month before the ver2.0 is released to ensure you character's safety! D:>