Quote Originally Posted by Junnichi View Post
As far as I know existing characters can't be transfered to other servers at release, right?!
We will have to stay on our old worlds (with a new server structure, but same community and such).
Because of this our/your ls members don't have to select a world at all.
Only new characters can be made on any (old and new) world.

That means all those characters already existent just stay as they are. And if you have friends who want to start playing FFXIV with ARR release then tell them to create their characters on your old world, too.

We'll have to wait some more time (after release) till we can transfer to other servers. And then we'll already know which worlds were created, and we can tell the destination server to everyone ingame.
You are wrong on this. Currently we have 10 servers. They will be split up between JP, NA and EU. When ARR is released, you will be able to pick between any of those 10 servers. Not sure how this will be done (during character creating or through a NPC).
Also when ARR is released, there will be (say 3) new servers created. These servers will only be for new characters for now. At a later date (not mentioned yet) you will be able to transfer to these new servers but not until they are established.
When a new character is created they will be able to select from any of the 10 previous servers or from the 3 (guessing) new servers.

There's a thread somewhere with a DEV that commented on this.