World Visit system

[SnowyPoupa]

Greetings,
I wanted to ask a question with the upcoming implementation of World Visit system.
What is the difference of this and Cross-Realm Zone(CRZ) of World of Warcraft ?
As an Ex-WoW player (Left around Warlords of Draenor Launch ) i have very mixed feelings about this change.
I wonder if they have any sort of wall to battle problems like people jumping from a world to an other farm something and so on.
I am pretty sure by now people know all the problems CRZ caused at WoW and with the huge numbers of WoW players now it will be nice to see also their opinion on the matter.
Thank you

[SnowyPoupa]

Also i hope people cant buy staff from Worlds they Visit via the MB or via Trade of any sorts!

[Rosentretter]

The World Visit feature will have several limitations, but buying in other world's Market Boards won't be one of those. Still, you can't sell from those worlds, so let's see how economy changes when this gets implemented. You can do some research, I'm pretty sure there's somewhere with all the info about it.

[Eryna]

Also i hope people cant buy staff from Worlds they Visit via the MB or via Trade of any sorts!

We'll be able to purchase items from other servers.
Yoshida said that in the live letter here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPh-GOdyRiA&t=2650

[Jojoya]

Greetings,
I wanted to ask a question with the upcoming implementation of World Visit system.
What is the difference of this and Cross-Realm Zone(CRZ) of World of Warcraft ?
As an Ex-WoW player (Left around Warlords of Draenor Launch ) i have very mixed feelings about this change.
I wonder if they have any sort of wall to battle problems like people jumping from a world to an other farm something and so on.
I am pretty sure by now people know all the problems CRZ caused at WoW and with the huge numbers of WoW players now it will be nice to see also their opinion on the matter.
Thank you

CRZ automatically dumped players from multiple realms into the same zone instance so zones didn't belong to any specific world. You had no choice - the game chose for you.

With World Visit, zone instances will continue to belong to a specific world and you will have to specifically choose to opt in to visit another world's zone instances.

I'm still leery of the potential for cross world trolls to screw with zone activities on other worlds. It could be the trolls will get bored with it fast since moving between worlds is somewhat inconvenient and you're cut off from things that can only be done on your home world.

In the long run, it's likely to only be used to visit and play with friends on other worlds in the same data center. I don't think it will harm FFXIV the way CRZ harmed WoW.

Also i hope people cant buy staff from Worlds they Visit via the MB or via Trade of any sorts!

Players will be able to buy from the MB on the worlds they visit. It doesn't sound like we'll be able to direct trade, though. It's an advantage for those who might have problems finding certain rare items on their home worlds. I don't expect it to have any significant impact on the majority of items sold on the MB since most players aren't likely to world visit to make a normal MB purchase.

There is some real concern about how crafting/gathering bots will further impact prices of crafted end game items but we'll have to wait to see. It could be SE has unannounced plans to crack down on those bots as the same time World Visit is implemented (probably a pipe dream but who knows).

Because a small server doesnt have the same power as a huge server.
Its not a matter of selling and buying staff.
Its a matter of what power a community has to buy and sell.

Yet this also has the potential to increase buying power of the low pop servers in the long by giving their sellers new customers while buyers have more opportunities to get what they want.

Unless you've been making your gil by monopolizing certain commodities on your home world, there should be nothing to fear.

This is one area where FFXIV isn't copying WoW. There is no cross realm AH in WoW.

[Jojoya]

actually, smaller sever where the problem start... did you know the smaller server is godly overprice? while big server much more cheaper.

That isn't always true. It depends on the commodity and the server. High pop servers have some items in higher demand than low pop servers but the supply doesn't always increase proportionally so their prices can be much higher than on the low pop servers.

[LastFireAce]

That isn't always true. It depends on the commodity and the server. High pop servers have some items in higher demand than low pop servers but the supply doesn't always increase proportionally so their prices can be much higher than on the low pop servers.

But majority of time smaller server have over all the most expensive stuff even if High server have a higher of demand wish most likely smaller server have it as well.

[SnowyPoupa]

Why the made this stupid move?
This will destroy the servers economy!

[Bright-Flower]

I'm a bit surprised they let you buy while visiting other worlds but it'll probably balance out in the end.

I'm just curious if you'll be locked from visiting congested worlds. IE, Balmung. The idea seems to be a measure to get people on high populated realms to play on low pop realms when doing new msq content etc to even out the stress, so I wonder if just as you can't make a new character on a congested world or xfer into it via mog station, will they bar players from other servers from visiting Balmung to keep the traffic down?

[Rokke]

I'm just curious if you'll be locked from visiting congested worlds. IE, Balmung. The idea seems to be a measure to get people on high populated realms to play on low pop realms when doing new msq content etc to even out the stress, so I wonder if just as you can't make a new character on a congested world or xfer into it via mog station, will they bar players from other servers from visiting Balmung to keep the traffic down?

You cannot visit a congested world. Balmung players can visit other worlds but non-Balmung players can't visit Balmung until the server population goes back to "regular".