Cross-Server Friends List

[YukiHamsterlord]

Are there any plans to add a cross-server friends list feature to the game in the future? I have friends who play, but they're on different servers. I'd really love to be able to queue up for duties with them, since the Duty Finder is already cross-server.

I can make an alt character on another server, but I really don't want to spend time grinding a new character up when I could be spending that time getting gear or leveling alt classes on my main. Of course buying a server transfer is an option, but I also have friends on this server and I don't want to abandon them to go play with someone else.

I just thought I'd post a thread to show that there's at least some demand for a feature that allows us to play with friends on other servers. Competing games have similar features to what I'm suggesting, so I know it's technically feasible to implement. All I want to do is play with a friend without having to abandon my other friends or starting over from scratch.

[Kimikryo]

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me. WoW it doesnt work like that, at least not early MoP. Blizzard has a Blizzard Live ID that makes communicatiion possible, this is something that FFXIV doesnt have

[YukiHamsterlord]

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me. WoW it doesnt work like that, at least not early MoP. Blizzard has a Blizzard Live ID that makes communicatiion possible, this is something that FFXIV doesnt have

I was actually referring to WoW and Blizzard Live ID. I haven't played WoW since 2006, but my friend who plays told me that you can use Live ID to queue for instances with cross-server friends. He may have been mistaken; he quit WoW a few months back and may have misremembered or misunderstood the feature.

Either way, it seems feasible to implement a feature like that, even if no one else has done it before. The Duty Finder already pairs people from different servers together, so you would just need a system that pairs 2-8 specific people together, instead of just moving down a list of people who are queued.

[Billie21]

I don't recall any MMO that allows that, but please enlighten me.

GW2, if my memory serves me right, allows you to have cross-server FL.


EDIT: On FFXIV, you have chars with similar names on different servers. Come to think of it, I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

[Noshpan]

I do have friends that play on other servers, and while I do have characters on the servers they play on, I still prefer to play my "main" on Leviathan. I also have more friends on Leviathan where-as I only know that one person on, say, Adamantoise, Excalibur, Behemoth and Balmung. Though I have offered to them that if they were to decide to reroll/transfer to Leviathan, then I would happily invite them to my FC.

[Sove92]

GW2, if my memory serves me right, allows you to have cross-server FL.


EDIT: On FFXIV, you have chars with similar names on different servers. Come to think of it, I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

This already happens if two players with the same name are in the same instance server (doesn't have to be dungeon). The result is that the player who joined later gets a number 2,3,4... added to their name.

[Sakuraluna]

This, a thousand times over. I've transferred servers and had to leave friends behind, would be nice to be able to keep in touch with them through a cross server fl of some sort.

GW2, if my memory serves me right, allows you to have cross-server FL.


EDIT: On FFXIV, you have chars with similar names on different servers. Come to think of it, I wonder how that works when two people on different servers but similar names are queueing in DF at the same time. Even if the probablility of them ending up in the same dungeon is very low, the possibility has to have been accounted for, right?

The way I want to remember it from FFXI is that your friends list was account-based rather than character-based through PlayOnline, which was one thing I did like about POL.Of course there weren't any instanced events in XI, and I could be wrong in how I'm remembering this I haven't played XI in a number of years now. But I imagine that this sort of system could be made to work in XIV too. Not necessarily a POL-like program, just a cross-server/cross-data center friend list implemented straight into the game would be amazing. I'm not sure how complicated it would be to add to the game at this point, but I'm also not sure why it isn't already in place tbh. Also, having a way to queue up for things together would be awesome but it would only work if the two servers were in the same data center anyways.

It would be pretty funny to see two different characters on two different classes with the same name pop up in DF though. Even worse if they were both dps. xD

[Skivvy]

Yeah, GW2 allows cross-server friends, and you can also be invited as a "guest" to their server to play with them, with your current character. No need to level up an alt or anything. It's quite nice

[TheHolmcross]

Personally, I'd be content with being able to send moogle mail to friends on other servers.

[Gilraen]

Personally, I'd be content with being able to send moogle mail to friends on other servers.

And this is, I think, why we don't have cross-server friends lists. The potential for RMT to abuse this is high. Hack an account/farm millions of gil, mail it to an RMT alt on another server. Makes it easy for them to keep their farming to a 'dump' server.