The "Meteor mark": anyone else come upon this issue?

[RichardButte]

So my fiancee and I had purchased the collector's edition of 1.0 way back in the day (also played in beta), but we had stopped playing before ARR came around. We later returned to give the game another shot.

We had heard about the meteor marks (the tattoos) and we had thought those were given to accounts that had remained active before the start of ARR.

Recently, we learned that this mark is on any character created PRIOR to ARR, and both she and I had characters on a Japanese server that have these tattoos.

Had we known the truth, we would've gladly paid to transfer these characters to a NA server, but we didn't and we rolled and leveled fresh characters instead.

Has anyone else had this problem and have they tried speaking to a GM about transferring the meteor mark and deleting the old character that had it?

There's SOOO much progress on this character that I couldn't fathom restarting him now, even to get the meteor mark which he WOULD have had had we known how to get it.

[Jillian]

Unfortunately, the legacy tattoo is linked to the character that has it. There is no way a GM can transfer the mark for you. You will either have to use the old legacy character or hope SE adds a similar tattoo to the game or cash shop.

[Miste]

I don't think you can get the tattoo transferred unfortunately.

It is like this due to lore because basically if your character was in 1.0 it was marked by the calamity. So any characters made in 2.0+ technically didn't go through the calamity and therefore no tattoo.

It would be nice I guess if you had a legacy status account and at least one character with the tattoo that your other newer made characters could also have the tattoo...I mean you could try requesting that SE do that I guess, but besides that like I said above I think it is due to lore so they may not want to do that.

In the end...you barely ever see that tattoo. My main has it, but I rarely ever see it due to gear covering it. So I would suggest just not worrying about it since it isn't something you'll see much even if you had it.

[RichardButte]

Yeah, that's what I expected but I figured I'd ask anyway.

Again, had we but KNOWN that our old characters were still there, we'd definitely have paid to transfer them off of the Japanese cluster...

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You never checked them o.o

[KisaiTenshi]

Again, had we but KNOWN that our old characters were still there, we'd definitely have paid to transfer them off of the Japanese cluster...

You do realize that they emailed all the email addresses of accounts that ever had an active V1.0 characters to move them right? And by active, I mean you minimally got past the opening cutscene and did anything.

Like my main character has the mark, but not the chocobo, because the chocobo wasn't available when I last logged into it.

What wasn't moved, retainers. Not that I think mine had anything of value on it.

I doubt SE could do anything at this point because while the tattoo is simply a cosmetic flag, it's covered up by nearly all gear that isn't a bathing suit, thus there is likely an entire multi texture layer reserved for just the tattoo. If SE ever gives options for body-paint/tattoos, you might see the tattoo disappear if something replaces it.

[Valinis]

Exact same thing happened to my brother. GM said too bad. Also I'm pretty sure when ARR first released you could not transfer from a legacy server to a normal server anyway.

[Zumi]

A legacy tattoo only on a character that was made in 1.0 even if you make new characters now on a legacy account they won't have it.

Its a brand that you got when Louisoix teleported you forward in time at the time of the calamity and thus anyone that wasn't there in 1.0 can't get one now.

[IveraIvalice]

Also I'm pretty sure when ARR first released you could not transfer from a legacy server to a normal server anyway.

While I don't remember 100%, I think it was the exact opposite. Legacy servers were full and they would have wanted to spread out servers as much as possible. If anything they encouraged legacy players to move to newer servers and didn't allow new players to make characters on legacy servers.

Yeah I don't think you can have the tattoo transferred but as others said, you really don't see it because all armor covers it. Though I thought having the legacy tattoo and legacy chocobo was only for people who had a legacy account and that was only people who payed for 3 months within a designated time in the last year before the game was shut down. Meaning you wouldnt have been able to start the game and quit until ARR launches and have legacy stuff. But from what you guys are saying, it's not linked to a legacy account?
Can anyone confirm having the tattoo and/or the legacy chocobo and either not have a legacy account or had quit the game early until ARR launched?

[Schwarzwind]

I had the very same problem but in all honesty it was my own fault for not checking my mails and starting on a new character because I wanted a fresh start. So all my new characters do not have the legacy mark and I deletet my legacy chars after some time because I did not plan to play them anyway. Today I regret doing so but oh well. My actions, my fault. I can not blame SE for it. To cheer you up I can only tell you that you are not missing out on much. Having a tattoo you can barely see is not something I am very attached to. Learn out of yor mistakes as myself and keep an eye on your accounts be it game accounts or other things.

@ legacy topic: The legacy chocobo is account wide as far as I know but the tattoo is not since it is linked to the calamity. To get legacy status, the chocobo and the sub discount for ARR you had to sub for a certain time before the servers of 1.0 shut down. Sadly I quit after few month after the 1.0 launch and did not qualify for legacy either. ;_; Again... my fault.