Moving to Paris

[Lium]

If this should be on the tech forums, I apologize. But I just had a quick question about moving to a different country.

When I move to Paris, do I need to transfer all my characters, which are currently on NA datacenters, to EU datacenters? Or can I continue to play on NA datacenters?

I have a BUNCH of toons and moving them all will be a hassle and expensive.

[shao32]

You can play in the NA datacenters from france without any problem, you will just have higher latency proportional to what coast you come from but thats all, if you wanna play with better ping move 1 char only, don't need to move all of them.

[VirusOnline]

Just a warning, as I've been in this situation before. Did some work in France. You will most certainly have latency issues if you raid. If you don't, then no worries.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If this should be on the tech forums, I apologize. But I just had a quick question about moving to a different country.

When I move to Paris, do I need to transfer all my characters, which are currently on NA datacenters, to EU datacenters? Or can I continue to play on NA datacenters?

I have a BUNCH of toons and moving them all will be a hassle and expensive.

If they are all on the same server, you can transfer them all for the single fee. The transfer fee is from 1 homeworld to another, not per character

[MrKusakabe]

You might get your account "quasi-suspended" for the change of your ISP's location (detected via your IP). So plan in some extra time to talk to the support.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You might get your account "quasi-suspended" for the change of your ISP's location (detected via your IP). So plan in some extra time to talk to the support.

Only if you don't have a security token enabled.

The bigger issue will be billing, as you can't change your accounts region.

[Lium]

Only if you don't have a security token enabled.

The bigger issue will be billing, as you can't change your accounts region.

This is good to know. So, I'll definitely talk to customer service about this. Sounds like others have moved to different regions without any problems, but I don't want to get there and find out my account has been frozen because of some billing issue.

And thanks for the other responses!

[Brill_]

You might get your account "quasi-suspended" for the change of your ISP's location (detected via your IP). So plan in some extra time to talk to the support.

I've had this happen a few times. Never had to talk to tech support. They just locked my account and forced me to change my password. Once I changed my password, got in just fine. IIRc they did ask for one of the security questions that are set on your account, OP make sure you know those.

[LaylaTsarra]

I have a friend from France and she has no problems playing on the NA Datacenter. She doesn't raid but I don't think she has a lot of latency. I also play a character on Chocobo in Japan and I don't really detect any difference in playing there than in the States. I'm on the East Coast btw. I would certainly not do anything until you've actually tried it from your new location before making any moves.

[Sheli54]

I have friends from Canada playing on EU DC Chaos (they were on NA DC before). They have no problem, not even for raiding. It should work both ways!