Switching Worlds

[ariaandkia]

I just started playing FF14 a week ago, and not knowing better, I chose Mateus server.

Mateus is deserted. I'll run through areas and never see 1 other player. I started googling and found out that Mateus is considered a "low population" server. I had no idea when I picked this one.

Square said I had two options. 1) They can erase my character and I can start over or 2) i can pay $18 to switch servers. This seems like crap to me. I don't want to start over. I made it to level 18 in the beta, got wiped, and now 27 so I don't want to start over AGAIN. I just paid $40 for the game, $13 per month sub now, and I have to pay $18 to switch to a world with other players in it? I was surprised they wouldn't give me a one time waiver since I didn't know. Does anyone have experience with this, have any suggestions for me, or has ever done a transfer and managed to get the fee waived?

I'm sorry, but if that is the case, just change servers. level 27 is pretty easy to reach. I can hit that in a day if I wanted to bother. In 3 days of beta, I got what was it, 3 level 20s, and the rest were 15/11? Like 2-3 days after early access, I was pretty much working on my second level 50? Yeah, it sucks to have to start again, but not that much of a big deal. Plus, you can make 1 character each on about 8 servers if you have basic service.

[SoCalKingg]

Thanks for the response. I must suck at this game because it took me about 30-40 hours to get to level 27. I'm just going to live with it I guess. Square support was no help and all they could say was, "We get this complaint all the time, you are not alone." $18 is not going to break the bank, it's more of the fact that I've all ready committed $200 to play this for a year, and now I have to spend $18 more if I want to actually play with other players. I'll just cross my fingers that one day they'll run the free transfer again like they did back in October, and I'll be able to leave the deserted world of Mateus.

[Niwashi]

I must suck at this game because it took me about 30-40 hours to get to level 27.

That's not a bad time for a first run. When you begin a new game, things take a lot longer because you're spending a significant amount of your time learning the game and its interface, and exploring an unfamiliar world. If you do decide to start over, repeating now-familiar content goes far faster than exploring and learning new content, so you can get back to level 27 in far less time than it took you to get there initially.

Or at least it can go a lot faster if you want it to. It really comes down to how much time you like to spend on exploring. You can decide to rush through the early levels up to the point where you left off with your previous character, and only then slow down enough to explore the content and side-stories, etc.