Free transfers and housing reimbursements are a given. They are NOT an apology

[ShanXiv]

For a MMO, the community is a large part of the product, some might even say the main selling point of the genre... For SE to just disregard that and split up communities like this frankly has me dumbfounded... The way Housing is handled doesn't even come close to good enough IMO, honestly I think they need to hold off on this change until they can revamp the entire Housing system. As much as I like the neighbourly feel of Wards, I think it's time for them to go... If Housing was instanced you'd clear up all the issues with transferring, I'd hope they'd even make it possible to just copy/paste from one server to another and remove the need to completely re-place everything, but given we're in this situation to begin with, that's very wishful thinking... Still, would be nice to be guaranteed Housing when you transfer (perhaps lock buying temporarily for all but people transferring?), and some system to carry over something like Free Company Workshop/Airship/etc progression would be nice...

Honestly though, I hope this is just an out of season April Fools joke, it goes so perfectly with 5.0s trailer; "This tragedy, greater even than the seventh Umbral Calamity, must be undone"

SE had already killed the XI & XIV1.2x community in 2.0,
now it's your turn
The MMORPG experience is never a selling point of this game, you can solo everything.
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