They announced how worlds would be shuffled.

[Fyce]

genuine question here, for the people affected. I haven't seen a post from anybody saying that a solution is making an alt on the other datacenter to stay in contact. Why making an alt is not an option? With an alt, you can stay in touch, you can rejoin the statics leveling it up. I think it is worth it, if I really wanted to keep contact, and leveling an alt is pretty fast in this game

I actually already though about that yesterday. And I said to my mates on Discord "hey, if they shuffle servers, it'd actually be an incentive to make alts. But also, it'd be nice if they provided jump potions like, one set per account only usable on the next character you create."

But instead we got "free world transfer". That seems cheap, especially on Chaos, since we had DDoS issues almost everyday for a month with absolutly no compensation whatsoever, big routing issues with Level3, and the fact that Chaos is the only Datacenter in Europe, which means deeper roots on servers and a lot of cross-server friends. It was like a single big community that is going to be split in half.
And all we get is a free world transfer.
Yay...

I guess making an alt is still an option. But man does it hurts not to be backed up by SE on that one.

[Nalien]

And all we get is a free world transfer.

Which doesn't even come close to cutting it, IMHO.

Even if I want to forget friends/etc., world transfer sucks. OK they remove some of the limits, such as the Gil cap, but that's really not the issue. Having to rebuild everything you've built up is; Your Free Company and Housing. Do they even remove the Free Company Entitlements restriction with this? Because if you're a small Free Company with a House moving server? Good luck.

If there was a system where you can just transfer your Free Company, complete with everything attached to it over, I'd be slightly more OK with all this. Losing all progress on Airships/Submarines though, watching your old plot get taken while your grinding for Free Company Entitlements though? No thanks.

That said, this move needs to be done. If we want SE to keep improving the game they have to improve the infrastructure that supports it. And if they have to take such a disruptive route to start the process then the results damn well better be worth it.

Did they announce anything at FanFest that remotely made it sound worthwhile? I haven't been paying full attention but from what I've gathered 5.0 is set to just be more of the same... I glanced a Q&A in which they basically said they'll keep sticking to this same old tired formula... So what are we gaining from this exactly? Heck even if they announced something like a reworked, newer and better Hamlet Defense (something I've wanted since 2.0 and think would work perfectly as Grand Company Squadron content), I'd be very sceptical just based off recent history... Diadem and Eureka haven't been all that amazing, nor has Deep Dungeons (HoH added new auto-win mechanics with Primals and a bigger room, not the greatest development in the history of gaming). They'd need to pull out something absolutely amazing for me to go "OK, this is worth it", and instead they seem to have pulled out... Nothing...

I think they mentioned some new Gold Saucer stuff? Even if we jump the gun and assume that is Blitzball... Lords of Verminion has still left a bad taste, so forgive me if I expect a complete disaster. Might be fun to enjoy with my friends though... Oh wait...

Yeah, I really don't think they could announce anything that would make this seem worthwhile... Any initial hype would instantly be tempered by "but I wont get to enjoy playing it with...", Blitzball or Hamlet Defense could be a literal gift from God and it wouldn't matter when half your friends are gone...