Legacy Servers not transfering to non-legacy?

[The_Last_Dragoon]

I currently reside on the legacy server Ridill in Japan, and at first I didn't have any qualms about playing on it due to there being considerably less spam and an overall gentler community. Unfortunately though, all of the end-game I'm noticing consists of Japanese Free Companies that pretty much require that you're not limited to Auto-translate and the fact that you're only on late at night for them. This coupled with the fact that my friend currently resides on the Shiva server in the US made me excited when I heard that free transfers would be occuring in a few days.

World Transfers

Then I saw the dreaded text stating that they want to allow the non-legacy server economies to stabilize and therefore won't be allowing players to transfer from legacy to non-legacy. I understand the reasoning, but does this mean I can't transfer there even if I were to pay for the service?

[Rilr]

Well, if just paying some bucks to be able to transfer from legacy to non-legacy, then the economy of non-legacy servers would rapidly increase so I doubt SE will ever allow that.

[LordSideKicks]

They should allow and make legacy players lose 50% of their assets upon transfer.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

Does this mean I can never transfer to a non-legacy because I would probably abandon this character at that point.

@LordSideKicks: They have already limited assets for legacy players, but I'm just a player who joined a Legacy server in Japan on the day after release since all of the servers were full. The limits they've placed on the free transfer don't even affect me since my total gil is around the 180k range (the limit is 3 million on the character and 1 million on every retainer).

But I'm guessing Lordsidekicks is joking since it really wouldn't hurt the extremely wealthy characters but only devastates the poorer players who barely survive with what they have.

[Sumii]

While everyone wants to say how transferring Legacy players over to non-Legacy would be the end of the economy (apparently they haven't seen that Yoshi himself admitted the Devs bumbled the economies across the board by overly-harsh gil sinks/measures - something he also said they will be making amends to) there really isn't any harm at this point. They just don't like it. However, regardless if they like it or not it was already confirmed and said multiple times that Legacy would be able to move over to non-Legacy. It was also said that it most likely would be at a delayed date from the initial world servers.

Personally I think since most server economies are already suffering deflation (as noted by Yoshi) that at this point just let Legacy over. But that's obviously not mine or anyone's decision but the Devs.

Bottom line is you will eventually be able to move from Legacy to non-Legacy. The timeline is the question.

[LordSideKicks]

I was thinking abt the overly wealthy players. Not the peasants. Most probably 6 months or later?

[Sumii]

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I have a Legacy char that is all 50 DoW/DoM with the exception of PLD, b/c let's face it... it's PLD. *gag* (personal opinion of course! although I like to think of it as fact). I also had a couple L50 DoH with several more 40+. I wasn't super rich like say Lordsky Thechef (one of the players on Ridill that almost hit gil cap in 1.x), but I wasn't hurting either. Then SE before they shutdown the servers removed a 0 from everyone's gil... and NPC items (b/c NPC items are so heavily used over say crafted/gathered). So players with 500 million suddenly had 50 million.

I am sure that there are people like Thechef that want to move over and still have tons of gil. But they've already announced that there is a limit to the gil allowed over during server xfer anyhow. With that already in place I see no reason why Legacy shouldn't be allowed to xfer with everyone else. But again, that's just me.

[Alhanelem]

Does this mean I can never transfer to a non-legacy because I would probably abandon this character at that point.

This is INCORRECT.

Transfers off legacy worlds will be possible in the future, just NOT RIGHT NOW. So much minsinformation going around here.

Also, I don't understand why, if you desire to transfer to be with a friend, why your friend can't simply transfer to your world instead of the other way around?

[Vanidin]

This is INCORRECT.

Transfers off legacy worlds will be possible in the future, just NOT RIGHT NOW. So much minsinformation going around here.

Also, I don't understand why, if you desire to transfer to be with a friend, why your friend can't simply transfer to your world instead of the other way around?

It might have had something to do with the things he mentioned about not liking the server he's on. The fact that he had a friend on another server just gave him a specific destination instead of an "anywhere but here" destination.

[KingZeus]

please stop making this same thread