Aussie Server

[Sairys]

Id say that their announcement is proof they've already done the numbers..and, old friend, you are forgetting growth, when more players sign in for the first time and ;learn there are Aussie servers, thats a huge pull factor.

A LOT of OCE ex WOW players have been hesitant to try FF 14 owing to ping issues, now that thats been solved.....heh heh heh...

Given they haven't announced whether or not its a migration or entirely new means we don't actually know which scenario those numbers are based on, so it's plausible that they also indicate that migration is necessary. Those new sign ups are also a reason in favour of migration, as they wouldn't want to risk such a rare recruitment opportunity funnelling players into low population servers where the play experience could be bad.

There's also a broader picture given that those who have been hesitant to play may likely also have friends who are already playing XIV and those friends may likely not want to migrate to OCE servers for the afforementioned reasons, this is based on chatter from various sydney gaming communities I'm a part of. Which would then mean those potential new players may not be able to play with their friends and not sign up, providing another reason SE will want to really make sure as many OCE players as possible want to move to the new servers.

[VelKallor]

Given they haven't announced whether or not its a migration or entirely new means we don't actually know which scenario those numbers are based on, so it's plausible that they also indicate that migration is necessary. Those new sign ups are also a reason in favour of migration, as they wouldn't want to risk such a rare recruitment opportunity funnelling players into low population servers where the play experience could be bad.

There's also a broader picture given that those who have been hesitant to play may likely also have friends who are already playing XIV and those friends may likely not want to migrate to OCE servers for the afforementioned reasons, this is based on chatter from various sydney gaming communities I'm a part of. Which would then mean those potential new players may not be able to play with their friends and not sign up, providing another reason SE will want to really make sure as many OCE players as possible want to move to the new servers.

This comes under "wait and see", Id guess. Yoshi's team undoubtedly already had a plan in place far in advance of fanfest, so Id posit that what your commented on is already on their minds. That team does NOTHING by halves. I trust them to get this right, so Ill just sit back and wait.

Some communities will be broken up, and that will be sad, but the FF team are always looking long term, so theres that in mitigation. I WILL miss my Kujata family no end, but I will be trading that for a new start and new friends, which is no less than others do when they sign on for the first time.

Besides, I will be able to travel back and forth via DC visit so in one sense, we arent leaving friends behind, just moving to a new neighbourhood. Doesnt mean we cant go back and play with them, we can.

It will all balance out in the end.

[Shibi]

Some communities will be broken up, and that will be sad, but the FF team are always looking long term, so theres that in mitigation. I WILL miss my Kujata family no end, but I will be trading that for a new start and new friends, which is no less than others do when they sign on for the first time.

Besides, I will be able to travel back and forth via DC visit so in one sense, we arent leaving friends behind, just moving to a new neighbourhood. Doesnt mean we cant go back and play with them, we can.

Yeah that's where I am. Hopefully cross DC is easy, and doable.

Unless something changes with FCs my current plan is to take over my second roll character from Coerl to the new DC to buy a personal home, and start grinding a new FC, then relo into the personal spot... and leave my current active roll on Faery with the existing FC. Four x level 90 submarines bring in too much gil each day to just demolish. Although likely we have moved on from subs to spacewhales for that, by then.

[LaylaTsarra]

Yeah that's where I am. Hopefully cross DC is easy, and doable.

I may be wrong but I suspect it's not going to be more than logging out and selecting the data center you want to travel too and log into it. Once there go ahead and select which server and log in. I suspect it'll be just like it is for those of us with alts on different data centers but instead you can simply pick where you want to go and not have to have a character on that server when you select it and use your regular character instead.

The real issue is going to be what the limitations are once you get there. They did seem to say there would be more restrictions then there are for World Transfer. I hope there will be a way to communicate so I would hope we'd be able to join cross world linkshells once there.

I wouldn't be surprised to see mb access not allowed.

[Sairys]

This comes under "wait and see", Id guess. Yoshi's team undoubtedly already had a plan in place far in advance of fanfest, so Id posit that what your commented on is already on their minds. That team does NOTHING by halves. I trust them to get this right, so Ill just sit back and wait.

Some communities will be broken up, and that will be sad, but the FF team are always looking long term, so theres that in mitigation. I WILL miss my Kujata family no end, but I will be trading that for a new start and new friends, which is no less than others do when they sign on for the first time.

Besides, I will be able to travel back and forth via DC visit so in one sense, we arent leaving friends behind, just moving to a new neighbourhood. Doesnt mean we cant go back and play with them, we can.

It will all balance out in the end.

Sure, there's reasons for the various ways they could handle the new dc, just like there's also reasons why they didn't announce how it'd work.

I'm also looking at moving but, for example, in one of the uni gaming communities I'm connected to I'm also the only one looking at moving even though we regularly have the issue of not being able to play together. Rather than moving to the OCE data centers, the others are looking at doing the opposite and staying where they are because they'll be able to use dc travel when they want to play with each other. Kinda making that the best option to them as they wouldn't lose anything and don't have enough of a reason to risk/bother with a move.