How much do you think server transfers should cost?

[Legado]

Should be free for 1 transfer a year, more transfers than 1 within a year should cost 19.99$.

NOPE NOPE NOPE

[Lirion]

NOPE NOPE NOPE

Care to explain why NOPE NOPE NOPE?

[Legado]

Care to explain why NOPE NOPE NOPE?

Previously have earlier in the thread. But to summarize: it ruins server community when you allow people to hop servers for a small fee. Over a given amount of time you will recognize fewer and fewer people you use to play with, it also causes unhealthy fluxes in a server's population. We see this in other games like WoW. Servers become ghost towns, and the lower the population gets the more incentive there is for larger guilds to transfer all together.

edit: And the logic that it will not effect server population because they can/will lock transfers off certain servers when they get too low. It would work and all but when a company sees how much extra money they are making from these transfers, they simply don't say no. This is why it is just better to not have transfers at all a month or so after official launch.

[Cendres]

Previously have earlier in the thread. But to summarize: it ruins server community when you allow people to hop servers for a small fee. Over a given amount of time you will recognize fewer and fewer people you use to play with, it also causes unhealthy fluxes in a server's population. We see this in other games like WoW. Servers become ghost towns, and the lower the population gets the more incentive there is for larger guilds to transfer all together.

edit: And the logic that it will not effect server population because they can/will lock transfers off certain servers when they get too low. It would work and all but when a company sees how much extra money they are making from these transfers, they simply don't say no. This is why it is just better to not have transfers at all a month or so after official launch.

You are forgetting one very important aspect of server transfers. Sometimes you want to play with different people, who are on other servers.

And that just nullifies any objections or reasons why transfers are bad. People want to move, a smart company will provide a way.

[Nix]

Should be free for 1 transfer a year, more transfers than 1 within a year should cost 19.99$.

Honestly that's not a bad idea. Gives people a chance to migrate if their servers become too quiet and penalizes them (by charging) for moving too much so no one in their right mind would abuse it.


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[Ksenia]

Should be free for 1 transfer a year, more transfers than 1 within a year should cost 19.99$.

I'm happy on Sargatanas. Having a free server transfer on my account might be a great feel good feature but this game was never population-centric and the whole *insert quest name* Level 40 Do you need it, Can I have it Thing kind of became a FF14 signature. We might not both speak the same language but we adapted.

[kazaran]

Thy will probably have a free transfer every 6 months or a year, and paid for sooner but still a limit. It is RMTS you have to worry about but hopefully the changes in economy will nip them as well.

[Zenaku]

Also i don't think we going to have the same world names i have a feeling they going to change it make no sense to keep the old one to mix people up start new with new world name and just give put what part of the world they are in,.

[Reika]

Also i don't think we going to have the same world names i have a feeling they going to change it make no sense to keep the old one to mix people up start new with new world name and just give put what part of the world they are in,.

There is no reason for them to go and change the names of 1.0 worlds when transferring to 2.0 when they are adding about 20 more worlds.

If our character data wasn't being ported over, sure, it wouldn't really matter. But its just going to cause confusion for us and themselves to change the world names for no reason.

I'm pretty sure i'm still going to be on Excalibur in 2.0

[Punainen]

I think it should be inexpensive, say $10-15, as well as have a substantial timer on it, say 30-90 days before you can transfer again, This would stop thoughtless server hopping, and dissuade abuse, while at the same time, being affordable and easily used by legitimate users.