Ability to switch servers!

[Nipa]

One free server transfer every week. Only forbid transfers to the overpopulated servers (based on the playing population, not the number of char created). This would allow players to easily play with their friends, and naturally create maximum population servers, which are good things.

This is what we can expect for a 2011 MMO.

[Delsus]

There isnt a server transfer atm so they can balance the populations between servers, its why some servers get temporerily closed when thier population gets too high (mainly saw it at release), I dont think we will get server transfers till after the ps3 release or you will have some servers with really high populations and some with no one on, Besaid, Selbina and Mysidia would have a huge eruption in population while Gysahl, Karnak and Istory would have no one on.

[DoctorMog]

One free server transfer every week. Only forbid transfers to the overpopulated servers (based on the playing population, not the number of char created). This would allow players to easily play with their friends, and naturally create maximum population servers, which are good things.

This is what we can expect for a 2011 MMO.

One per... WTF?

Why even have different servers to make characters on?
At that point, you might as well make it like Maple Story, just pick the server you want to log on to, after character selection.

[TonyMontana]

Im not a huge fan of server transfers but thats becaus I was an original player on one of the most popular servers in wow(Illidan) people were ALWAYS transfering to Illidan and it caused a lot of trouble. That being said in a game like FFXIV with so few players I say lets open the flood gates and lets transfers happen!

[neizero]

Yes please to server transfers, why should we be forced to "suffer" dead servers when we pay the same fee. (eventually)

Failing that, server merge would be a reasonable alternative until the PS3 floodgates are open.

[Petori]

Maybe when game is P2P and server transfers should cost. Otherwise people would just jump to different server every week <_<

[syntaxlies]

i think they sh8ould allow it and charge around $20-30 to keep people from doing it to much.

[DNO]

in this time of free play and what not we should all be transfered to 2 or 3 servers so they can be full. after ps3 drops then make it so SE can even out all the servers.

[Arcell]

If they let us start changing servers you'd have a small handful of overpopulated servers and the rest would be completely empty. How does that look for PS3 and/or new players starting the game? They'd want to get into a populated server but instead their options are "not getting into the over populated servers" or "Colonize a dead server".

Personally if I were SE I'd wait until after the PS3 population stabilizes to allow any kind of server transfers and/or merges.

[syntaxlies]

One free server transfer every week. Only forbid transfers to the overpopulated servers (based on the playing population, not the number of char created). This would allow players to easily play with their friends, and naturally create maximum population servers, which are good things.

This is what we can expect for a 2011 MMO.

i would actually cut this down to a month but a time limit is a good idea.