Question for DEV Servers in ARR?

[dascorp]

The new servers that existing players cannot move to are only the fresh-start servers that will not have existing economies. Just wanted to clarify that.

We haven't made any specific announcements regarding the servers, locations, or specifics about world transfers (besides Rukkirii's post here) at this time. As soon as we have more information to share, we will!

For more information about regional servers, please see the details regarding what was announced in the previous Producer Letter Live.

if we cant move to these new servers, what is the point of our gill being adjusted? i dont understand

[Shougun]

if we cant move to these new servers, what is the point of our gill being adjusted? i dont understand

New players can move to our servers. I just hope that we can change during beta so when you tell your friends what server you are on its not "I dont know yet".

[Shioban]

if we cant move to these new servers, what is the point of our gill being adjusted? i dont understand

Quote from: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e956cb586363ab

Purpose of Currency Redenomination
When the current version of FFXIV was first designed, we were forced to inflate item prices to properly balance the prices for consumable items, such as arrows and fishing lures.* This is no longer necessary, as this type of consumable item will not be used in FFXIV: ARR.

*1 The price of one arrow was originally indexed against the cost of one sword at a rate of 1 to 1000. For example, if a gladius were priced at 200 gil, the equivalent level warped arrows would be priced at 0.2 gil each. However, because decimal pricing is not possible, prices would have to be rounded to the nearest whole number, rendering it comparatively expensive to be an archer. This problem was addressed by increasing all item prices by a factor of ten.

In conjunction with the removal of player-operated bazaars in FFXIV: ARR, all items and gil in player bazaars at the time the servers go down will be returned to player inventories. This includes gil which is being offered in the ‘seek item’ section of a bazaar. Because of this, it is possible that the resulting gil total may exceed the limit of 999,999,999. Therefore, this change also ensures that players will not lose any gil.

That said, this currency redenomination is primarily intended to reduce the excessively large values used in all transactions. We would like to reiterate that the effective purchasing power of your savings will not be reduced.

- Summary -
The last digit was for ammunition only, with a currency redenomination and taking away a digit, we are able to work with smaller numbers making it easier to manage. You will NOT be loosing money, a sword that was 1,000 gil is now 100 gil. So if you had 1,000 gil in your pocket you will now only have 100.
EVERYTHING is loosing a digit, so your actual amount of money you hold technically is the same, just one less-digit along with the rest of the economy.

[fusional]

It is going to be hard to try to coordinate with friends on the server or servers that would like to play together after november

why, does facebook shutdown in november? is the internet doing away with email and instant messengers? is guildwork closing guild sites?

i don't understand

[RoxyLalonde]

Wait... I remember this differently. I remember it being said we'd all get to move our characters to any server we wanted to (MINUS THE NEW PLAYER SERVERS [which we will only be able to transfer to after they establish economies]) but we will have regional servers available for us that our friends who are just starting CAN join.

[Shougun]

Wait... I remember this differently. I remember it being said we'd all get to move our characters to any server we wanted to (MINUS THE NEW PLAYER SERVERS [which we will only be able to transfer to after they establish economies]) but we will have regional servers available for us that our friends who are just starting CAN join.

That sounds like we can switch servers twice?

I know if we create a NEW character we can put that guy wherever we want, even a new server. Its our leveled guys that are being held back a grade lol.

[Mihana]

Since we're talking about the servers here can we get an update on something Yoshi-P said awhile back? In an interview when he was asked about the roleplaying community he mentioned he wanted to add in a RP server at the launch of ARR. Will this still happen or will there be a designated server after all for RPers? If so, could you tell us if it would be just a single server or if there might be one for each region? Thank you~

[Vydos]

I hope I'm understanding this right. But from what I understood, we do get to transfer servers but only to the current existing ones.

Basically like moving from Besaid to Ragnarok will be allowed but not Besaid -> New ARR server.
I hope it's something like that because I want to transfer to Ragnarok at ARR launch. But I think I read in the past that we weren't going to receive a character transfer during the starting period(like first month(s) ). Which made me quite sad back then. I don't know if a DEV or someone else could confirm this.

Edit: NVM, I read the linked posts of Bayohne and it already answers my questions. Guess it's just wait and see. While hoping that we get a free server transfer ticket to the existing servers at launch.

[FedeMax]

I would be nice to have some clarification of what is going to happen at ARR with the current servers, at least find out if they are going to stay in JP since current players will not be able to transfer. But with the post of Rukkirii, it sounds we are not going to have any answer until close to Beta.

Rikkirii:
Before we finalize details for current players wishing to transfer, we'll need to consider how we'd want to handle returning players. We'll be looking at the options with regard to the Beta Test conditions.

Some of you have been asking about the bullet point we mentioned during the FINAL FANTASY 25th Anniversary Event Special Talk Session about “improving the amount of freedom of world transfers” -- this meant that we will be setting up a world transfer service similar to FFXI.

I would think that SE would have made the current players regional servers a priority or at least make a poll to see how many players would have move to a local server to get some numbers. Plus it is going to take several months to allow players to move to the new servers since a new economy those not grow in a day.

If the current player base servers stay in JP, I am guessing, including me; will not move since it is not going to be allow until after serveral months and players will get use to the lag of ARR unless it is worst than the current game.

[Azurus]

I hope a decent amount if new players come to existing servers. My friend and I were looking forward to making a free company focused on helping new players and building a semi small tight knit group