Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Lexia]

* Yes I pay the monthly price and even bought cosmetics. But an additional 15 eur is a huge amount for each character, especially if you play with friends. Dropping ~100-200 EUR to move... that would be crazy.

You don't pay for each character one transfer covers all characters.

[EUSerena]

You don't pay for each character one transfer covers all characters.

I am sorry I meant that cost accumulatively - regarding all players in our friend circle from EU who play on US right now.
For me it would "only" mean 30 EUR, then there is Stormblood and the monthly fee. I am all for supporting FFXIV and SE, but come on.
It's not like a world transfer would really incur any costs for SE, the price is there to keep people from server hopping, which is fine in normal situations.

But in this case, I believe a free transfer is 100% warranted.
Though others mentioned in this thread that there were similar situations and no one received free transfers. But hey, one can hope. :/

[Zojha]

Though others mentioned in this thread that there were similar situations and no one received free transfers. But hey, one can hope. :/

There was one similar situation in FFXIV (move of the EU data center) and there actually were free transfers (off the EU data center). Lasted around 1-2 weeks after the transfer, so you could test your ping in normal gameplay and see if you can stand the new latency or not.