Thread: Will there be a World Transfer in 2.0?

It's not fair to current players? Screwing over new players is even less fair lol. Everyone currently playing migrates to new servers, guess who suffers most? You can't say "well they don't matter" or "they'll catch up"..no, if current trends will tell you anything, it's resonable most people currently playing are not.

They're locked out for current players FOR NOW simply for the sake of new players it seems like. No matter what you say, moving old players to a brand new server will affect it period. 200k or 100k..doesn't matter, it will have an effect on the new economy if there's say 5k people moving over, that's already a ton of gil flowing around and prices will reflect that. There's a reason they're adjusting the value of the gil and prices on NPCs you know.

Originally Posted by Zumi

This isn't really fair to current players. I don't want to be stuck on a JP server when the game relaunchs like the one I am on now. I would give up all my gil or whatever to play on a NA server as long as I keep my character levels. There will probably be very few new NA players willing to join the current JP servers.

If I get stuck on a JP server and can't transfer off right away to one of the new NA ones I likely won't be playing for long.

How about if returning current players want to move to one of the new NA servers you put a gil cap on the amount of gil they can take over say 500k or something, so they won't effect the new economy much.

What are you in such a hurry for, you've been on a JP-located server for years(?) now, I'm sure you can wait a few weeks/months. You're right though in that the reason it won't be immediate is to ensure economic stability and to give new players a little time to develop before throwing a bunch of vets in there.

Originally Posted by Elexia

It's not fair to current players? Screwing over new players is even less fair lol. Everyone currently playing migrates to new servers, guess who suffers most? You can't say "well they don't matter" or "they'll catch up"..no, if current trends will tell you anything, it's resonable most people currently playing are not.

They're locked out for current players FOR NOW simply for the sake of new players it seems like. No matter what you say, moving old players to a brand new server will affect it period. 200k or 100k..doesn't matter, it will have an effect on the new economy if there's say 5k people moving over, that's already a ton of gil flowing around and prices will reflect that. There's a reason they're adjusting the value of the gil and prices on NPCs you know.

There will probably far more current players who want to move to the NA servers then brand new players.

Originally Posted by Alhanelem

What are you in such a hurry for, you've been on a JP-located server for years(?) now, I'm sure you can wait a few weeks/months. You're right though in that the reason it won't be immediate is to ensure economic stability and to give new players a little time to develop before throwing a bunch of vets in there.

The issue is if you're stuck in a JP server, there won't be new non-JP players joining your server. All new players will most likely be JP and the population will inflate. Not to mention I have friends who want to start playing after ARR begins. I would like to be able to play with them and also not have them to only face JP players the entire time (as opposed to a variety of players).

Wouldn't be a problem with optimized universal servers..but alas.

Not allowing us to move around at launch likely has little to nothing to do with how much money we have or affecting economies of those worlds. Likely everything to do with a stable launch and allowing new players a chance to actually pick a server they want. Everyone moving their characters around while adding thousands of new characters puts a lot of strain on the servers, not to mention the fact that they likely want to maintain a stable launch environment.

Solution: Chill out and wait for the transfer. It's not going to kill you to stay on a server that may or may not be in your region for a little bit. Also this changes doesn't just affect us, the JP players that get stuck on a server that doesn't have a JP data center are in the same boat.

Here is a possible solution. Split up the current servers into all 3 regions and allow old players to move to any of the old servers, make a few servers a new players only for the first few months or whatever.

For example, not going to list all servers but something like this

Ridill - JP
Masamune - JP
Durandal - JP
New world A - JP (New players only for 3 months)
New world B - JP (New players only for 3 months)

Aegis - NA
Gungier - NA
Sargatanas - NA
New world C - NA (New players only for 3 months)
New world D - NA (New players only for 3 months)

Ragnarok - EU
Excalibur - EU
New world E - EU (New players only for 3 months)
New world F - EU (New players only for 3 months)