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[Bjond]

I hope this happens again. my concerned is the amount of Gil I got and they won't allowed me to take. Gil that earned and saved for over 3 years.

Transfer prevents moving over 1m gil, but you can transfer all your items. I was "forced" to transfer my alt from a nice friendly low population server. Low MB volatility was pressuring me to become an omnicrafter if I wanted to stay. After moving to large server, my alt's net-worth increased by roughly 6x and I don't have to craft.

I didn't do anything special -- just checked the destination MB before moving and converted non-transferable gil into items to resell. It's certainly far more tedious than transferring blindly, but it does mean that gil is one of the good things about moving.

The bad is what you absolutely can't take with you: friends, community, FC, etc.. There are a LOT of nice people all over in this game, but it's always a shame to leave some behind for game reasons.

[Ama_Hamada]

Transfer prevents moving over 1m gil, but you can transfer all your items. I was "forced" to transfer my alt from a nice friendly low population server. Low MB volatility was pressuring me to become an omnicrafter if I wanted to stay. After moving to large server, my alt's net-worth increased by roughly 6x and I don't have to craft.I didn't do anything special -- just checked the destination MB before moving and converted non-transferable gil into items to resell. It's certainly far more tedious than transferring blindly, but it does mean that gil is one of the good things about moving.

The bad is what you absolutely can't take with you: friends, community, FC, etc.. There are a LOT of nice people all over in this game, but it's always a shame to leave some behind for game reasons.

Clearly you got no idea how much some people can have. You can have 8 chrs, buy crap on the markets and still find it hard to move all your gil, since ill be hard to find enough items that will transfer well.

I recall an interview... I can't find the link... where they implied that many of their design decisions were based around NA data center limitations. Even now, they're talking about increased inventories and such for SB, and they've pointed at the new datacenter as the enabling piece.

Yes I know, but I am wondering how much they thought about location, not just "we need updated servers"

[Kethic]

Clearly you got no idea how much some people can have. You can have 8 chrs, buy crap on the markets and still find it hard to move all your gil, since ill be hard to find enough items that will transfer well.

Yes I know, but I am wondering how much they thought about location, not just "we need updated servers"

It's a fair question, but I imagine they thought about it more than people in this thread are giving them credit for.

[SleepyBee]

This feels a bit ridiculous. I live on the west coast but have always played on an EU server. Sure, when the EU servers moved it was a bit of an adjustment and things weren't quite as snappy as before but I adjusted. I even raid as a ninja and it's FINE. Where ever the new servers end up being it's not going to affect people that badly at all, certainly not to the extreme of a west coaster playing on a EU server.

I also wasn't going to say anything about this but it's really cringe reading a couple comments about the inconvenience of a natural disaster on the game. I'd like to think people losing their lives in a quake would be a SMIDGE more of a problem.