Stuck in Data Center Transfer to Aether

[InkLink]

I restarted the game and when I tried to log in again, the exact message popped up again with “Time Elapsed” starting at 0 minutes. At the start, I tried troubleshooting based on some solutions that worked for people in the past from some old Reddit posts, but nothing worked. This included changing my password and a method involving removing some text in the FFXIV.cfg file (which I restored since that didn’t work).

If you need to just close the game it seems that should be safe, but it appears that won’t cancel the transfer. It appears we are stuck in the transfer and cannot cancel it. If anyone finds a solution that works please share!

Thank you for sharing your experiences and the things that you have tried so far! Fingers crossed for a resolution as well!

[Kevinatuee]

I’m in! The message just went away and I’m now successfully transferred to Aether, after ~2 hours. Curious if this spontaneously resolved for everyone else (aside from those on Crystal I assume).

[LadyEmberli]

I restarted the game and when I tried to log in again, the exact message popped up again with “Time Elapsed” starting at 0 minutes. At the start, I tried troubleshooting based on some solutions that worked for people in the past from some old Reddit posts, but nothing worked. This included changing my password and a method involving removing some text in the FFXIV.cfg file (which I restored since that didn’t work).

If you need to just close the game it seems that should be safe, but it appears that won’t cancel the transfer. It appears we are stuck in the transfer and cannot cancel it. If anyone finds a solution that works please share!

I have been trying similar things myself, but my partner just linked me a lodestone post and it seems they are aware of the issue so best we can do is hope we get a fix soon, fingers crossed, friends!

[NovalisCrystalis]

59 minutes in and I'm still with an unknown estimated time.

[TalesofAer]

It seems to have randomly resolved for me too. I'm finally in after nearly 2hrs

[NovalisCrystalis]

Roughly took an 1hr but Im in now.

[LadyEmberli]

I am in as well! Hope everyone else gets back in soon! <3

[Kevinatuee]

For the record, I’m now trying to transfer from Aether back to my Home World on Dynamis.

It appears they have disabled Data Center transfer (“Visit Another Data Center” is grayed out for me).

Also I get an error when selecting “Return to Home World”. “Unable to Return to Home World request at this time [300].”

It does let me transfer worlds within Aether though, so it seems the issue is restricted to data center transfer only.

I wonder if those of us in the Data Center Transfer queue got stuck (or are still stuck) when they disabled transfers (presumably for Crystal emergency maintenance). Just a theory.

[Xupojoonyohl]

Good morning fellow adventurers and thank you all for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

I apologize for the delay in our response to your concern. We are happy to hear that your issue has been resolved!

This thread will be moved to the 'Closed Concerns' sub forum as a result.

Hope to see you online!