Any ETA on when home world transfer will be available again?

[IdowhatIwant]

I believe they stated they would give more information on this towards the end of January as well as a road map. If I had to guess though I would not expect the freeze to be lifted soon. The earliest I would assume is once more servers are installed. The latest I would assume is when sales open back up.

[MeiraStarborne]

The earliest I would assume is once more servers are installed.

I hope not, since I don’t anticipate new servers for quite some time, and reopening Home World Transfers could actually alleviate congestion. They could leave the heaviest servers / data centers locked down, allowing transfers OFF but not TO. I know plenty of people eager to get off Aether so they can actually play the game. Knowing Crystal sees no queues during weekday evening prime-time, while Aether still sees 2-hour queues, is gutting for many.

[SigilBaram]

Thank you for this. I admit I don’t follow all the various interviews and whatnot...

This is kind of an issue in itself, though. You shouldn't need to scour the internet for every random interview just to get updated news on this kind of thing. They could actually update the lodestone announcement with something like "Sorry for the delay. We're still working on this and should have more information in the coming weeks." and it would be a lot more visible to the community than wherever this other update came from. Sure, not every factoid in interviews is lodestone feed worthy, but this is important information about the status of ongoing server issues, not just random behind the scenes sneak peaks or developer commentary.

[SigilBaram]

This are evidently several new posts on the lodestone today talking about the Oceania data center, transfer service, etc. The one about world transfer service gives a date for re-opening the service; however, the original "Special Notice" about the world transfer service hasn't been updated with this info, despite being pinned at the top.

[Maxilor]

January 26th is the announced date.

[Quintessa]

This are evidently several new posts on the lodestone today talking about the Oceania data center, transfer service, etc. The one about world transfer service gives a date for re-opening the service; however, the original "Special Notice" about the world transfer service hasn't been updated with this info, despite being pinned at the top.

We can ignore that.