Thread: 2.0 Unfinished - Server shutdown in Novemeber

Perhaps this conversation with my linkshell mates got out of hand yesterday but there's something I don't quite understand about our shutdown in November.

Perhaps one of you lovely ladies can help me to piece this together!

As we already know, FFXIV's servers will stop saving on the 1st November to transfer character data to 2.0.

The reason for the shutdown is less thrilling than you might think. "Basically the player data will be taken over into the new game. So, to convert all this new data for the new systems, we need a certain amount of time to do this. There's so much data, so many thousands of characters that we must do this for. And so we have to shut down the servers," he said.

Yet according to our last Letter from the Producer the Alpha hasn't even began!

I may only be speaking for myself here but we seem to be getting the same message from XIV's team whenever a question is asked and that is "We don't know yet".

Perhaps this is just paranoia and anxiety but it feels like the game isn't going to be ready for Alpha anytime soon. Please note that the word feel is the operative word and I have nothing to back that up.

I'm not exactly the most competent when it comes to understanding servers.
Would it be possible that our character details are going to be transferred to 2.0's servers before the game has actually been made so it can all be thrown together immediately or is this just a case of 2.0 is taking longer to construct than planned and the server shutdown has been placed too far ahead of schedule ultimately meaning that when the game is ready we will be waiting another month for character transfers.

I feel like this post is coming across extremely selfish as Yoshida’s team are doing everything they can do for their adoptive child suffering a premature birth but I can’t help but feel like this doesn’t quite add up.