World transfer help

[Lollie]

snips Let me clear up some mis-information going around about Balmung. ..... If you would like to get onto Balmung much quicker though, if you pay the $18 character transfer fee, you should get on Balmung that same day. It does not play by the same rules as the character creation system. About 3 weeks ago I paid to get my wife's character transferred to Balmung and within 5 minutes she was transferred.

While I cannot refute this particular case, I have experienced issues transfering a character to exodus in september. It is also important to note SE dropped the ban hammer hard (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-%28Jan.-8%29)during the time frame you note your occurnce of transfer so your personal experience may not directly translate. At this point more emphirical data may be needed, the 2 samples directly refute each other and, the world transfer service tos specificly state it is subject to character creation limitations.

[Kloe]

Here's my evidence of the transfer service not playing by the same rules as the character creation. The day I paid for the transfer to balmung, I logged into FFXIV and checked the status of the server. It was closed. This was around 10am CST on a Tuesday. It is not a time where the server is going to be open. Immediately after checking the server status for about 30 minutes of refreshing the list every 3 minutes. I then logged into mog station and paid for the transfer. 5 minutes after that, the character transferred. So no, the character creation on the server was not opened up at the time I paid for the transfer. This shows that there's a different set of rules it goes by.

I'd also like to point out that character creation and transfers have nothing to do with how many characters are created on a server. It's the "concurrent logins" to the server that matter. I had been checking at all times of the day for 2 weeks straight before I decided to pay for the transfer service. No luck finding an open time even at the "non peak" hours of 2am-8am CST. I am not the only one who has had this problem and just given up to pay for a transfer and have it happen right away.