New EU/NA worlds - Will you go?

[Shibi]

Hmm, just thought of something.

Back in February a bunch of not-in-OCE people jumped on Materia for the 15 free days of playtime at level 30, then abandoned their alt when it hit that.

They will have a chance to move that alt now to their own regions - NA or EU - for free, and get the million gil they also got, a touch closer to their home server. We don't know yet what the DC travel restrictions are in terms of moving money, but they might be able to get some of the free million back to their mains.

[Jojoya]

Hmm, just thought of something.

Back in February a bunch of not-in-OCE people jumped on Materia for the 15 free days of playtime at level 30, then abandoned their alt when it hit that.

They will have a chance to move that alt now to their own regions - NA or EU - for free, and get the million gil they also got, a touch closer to their home server. We don't know yet what the DC travel restrictions are in terms of moving money, but they might be able to get some of the free million back to their mains.

We know we'll be able to buy from the marketboards on other data centers so it's highly unlikely that player to player trades will be blocked.

The transfers may not be free right away, though. There's always the chance the Materia worlds will remain New for several more months.

[Tlamila]

Nope, I moved to Omega when it opened and it's my home now, i'd never move anywhere else.

[TaleraRistain]

I would never transfer. I've been on Jenova since I started playing. It's home and nothing else will ever be home like it is.

I might create a new alt and challenge myself to bring them up fresh from nothing.

[Fhaerron]

I'm interested into the new EU DC.

I move as soon as I can. Will be nice to meet new people.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I have 2 mansions, not moving.
If I DIDN'T I would move for the housing, since I can still play with my static etc on another world as same DC.

[Imora]

No.

I have a great FC, we have a house, I have a furnished apartment, I have no reason to move outside a possible house.

As much as I want a house, that alone isn't enough of an incentive.

[Renathras]

As for moving to the entirely new European DC next summer? Probably a no even with DC travel. Populating an entirely new data centre with its own party finder and duty finder community sounds like a headache despite the game's massive popularity in Europe. Unless, of course, they're going to provide some additional benefits for players that actively make the choice to switch data centre.

I think this take hits the nail on the head.

As much as it WOULD irk people, imo any time they make a new DC they need to transfer AT LEAST TWO existing servers to it.

Imagine moving to a new country (assume you speak the language and all that), and you're populating a new town in that country that is being built from scratch. That kinda sucks, but you have Nearby Bigtown, USA to go to if you need to go shopping, a job, order stuff from the Amazon distribution center, etc.

Now, contrast that with being a colonist going to Mars with the first ever Human colonies. Sure, that's a big adventure and historic and all that...but your town will be kind of on its own with the other couple towns there, with no connection (or only a tenuous one) to Earth. Granted, a lot of people would say "I'd pick Mars!", but the point of this thought experiment is to consider which would be the more daunting.

But suppose, for the sake of argument, you could take a couple cities and all their associated infrastructure with you and transplant them to Mars. Atlanta and London or something. Now it's a lot LESS daunting because you know you have those resources there with you.

I feel like this is kind of true of new DCs, just there's no awesome "One giant leap for mankind" going for new DCs.

I could be wrong, but I think they did this with the existing DCs. It's why every post ARR DC (at least in NA/JP) have some Legacy servers. And back then, everything was starting from scratch.

I'm not sure how easy/hard this would be and I KNOW it would piss off some people who have DC friends (but DC travel would make this LESS bad), but I feel it would make new DCs a lot more functional if they had at least one or two servers on the DC people could travel to easily to MB stuff (at least buying, and people would also travel from the established DCs to sell or compare prices and maybe buy), and it would mean far more healthy ques since MOST existing servers could probably have stand-alone ques and be reasonable, so they could supply the extra bodies/take in the extra bodies from the new servers for running content at reasonable que times.

I dunno, just seems wise to me...

EDIT: Note that this also gets over the problem with houses/FCs/friends groups FOR THE MOST PART. You might lose some/all of your cross-world stuff, but by moving the entire servers over, it prevents breaking up people or them having to abandon hard-won homes and social circles.

And I say this as someone new to my FC and who has an apartment just to dump my housing items to free up my Retainers' inventory, but I absolutely see how those things block people from moving

[george357]

am staying where i am want to keep my house.

[game_enjoyer]

i might. i made an alt on materia when that first opened up because i wanted to see what a brand new data center would be like. it was fun.