Honestly I hope they don't put transfers (as well as merges if need be) in place until a couple of months after PS3 launch. Reason being if they did it now we'd have a bunch of ghost town servers and a couple of completely full servers. This certainly doesn't help new players out when those populated servers become completely full and then they're forced to start sort of populating some of the ghost towns.

That being said, Besaid has been a good experience so far. Some of the towns themselves are empty but mostly only because everyone's out in the field lol.