Quote Originally Posted by Astrus View Post
They have made an official statement about this:


For the duration of the free transfer period you can transfer to any server that is not congested.
Since the new servers are scheduled to be available with the launch of 5.0 the transfer period would be over. You can still transfer from Chaos to any of the existing servers on Light (barring those deemed congested) once the great server shuffle of '19 has happened.
There's the rub.
With the release of Stormblood, the new EU servers were free to transfer to if you came from a congested world, essentially, and they might do the same thing this time around to help congestion and help populate the new worlds.
But if it will be free even across datacenter is the mystery I'd like to get an answer for. So far they spoke only of the shuffle, but have not given any real information about the new servers at all.