Transferring Character Data to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Questions

[Mjollnir]

most ISP in EU route their traffic to Japan through the U.S. backbones.

Nope. London to Tokyo is via a combination of land and undersea cables passing through the Middle East. Supposedly last year a cable was to be laid linking the two Metropoli via the Arctic Ocean, but there's been no news on that in over a year. Another plan-in-motion is to lay undersea via the Northwest Passage, connecting to Canadia on the way.

Either way, Montreal remains closer.

[StrikeField]

I hope we can have server transfer after launch . I'm in Korea so Japan is fine but when I go state side I'd like to transfer T T

At least allow one free transfer or a small fee...

[Zenaku]

Tell me about it. I know about fifty people IRL here in the UK who play MMOs. I'm the only one who played XIV. It's an uphill struggle trying to get people to give ARR a second shot. I've got three friends to pre-order, five friends who are undecided and forty who consider anything that's not WoW a waste of their time^^

Ya i know how you feel all my friends when i was 13+ only played WoW. I only had 3 real life friends who play FFXI with me and one of them is the person who got me into it quit pretty much few months of me getting it.

I'm hoping FFXIV become a big thing but i just have a feeling that it wont. Even tho a lot of people are sick of wow and want something new FFXIV so it may be hard to get people to play a somewhat wow-clone.

I hope we can have server transfer after launch . I'm in Korea so Japan is fine but when I go state side I'd like to transfer T T

At least allow one free transfer or a small fee...

They said that the first year of FFXIV there no point of transfer but they are going to add it at some point.

[PandaTaru]

I said most but then might be different in the UK. from what I saw here in France, Pro/business contract take the more direct route you mentioned but consumers are stuck with the long and cheap route through the U.S. After, yeah, It's a 100ms gain using the ME/Russia route, not something that would improve gameplay by much anyways.

that's how the route looks from my home

C:\Users\xxx>tracert 202.67.53.202

Tracing route to 202.67.53.202 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms xxx.xxx.13x.88.rev.sfr.net [88.13x.1xx.xxx]
3 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 13.114.24.109.rev.sfr.net [109.24.114.13]
4 53 ms 49 ms 49 ms 40gigabitethernet1-1.core1.lon1.he.net [195.66.224.21]
5 115 ms 115 ms 120 ms 10gigabitethernet10-4.core1.nyc4.he.net [72.52.92.241]
6 175 ms 174 ms 175 ms 10gigabitethernet12-2.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.226]
7 197 ms 196 ms 196 ms pacnet.10gigabitethernet2-3.core1.lax1.he.net [216.218.223.206]
8 286 ms 285 ms 286 ms gi6-0-0.cr1.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.61.166]
9 285 ms 286 ms 285 ms gi1-0-0.gw1.nrt5.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.178]
10 287 ms 286 ms 286 ms squareco.asianetcom.net [203.192.149.210]
11 305 ms 306 ms 305 ms 61.195.56.129
12 284 ms 283 ms 319 ms 219.117.144.66
13 306 ms 306 ms 307 ms 219.117.144.45
14 304 ms 351 ms 303 ms 219.117.146.129
15 306 ms 305 ms 306 ms 219.117.146.102
16 302 ms 303 ms 283 ms 202.67.53.202

Trace complete.

[Mjollnir]

I said most but then might be different in the UK. from what I saw here in France, Pro/business contract take the more direct route you mentioned but consumers are stuck with the long and cheap route through the U.S.

My bad for presuming it all got sent the same way! Sorry.

[Reowinn]

Out of curiosity, can the servers become full and prevent players from applying for the transfer?

Since I haven't seen anything on this matter and if the servers can become full, this can and most likely prevent friends/ls mates from moving into the same server to play together.

[JillyBean]

Out of curiosity, can the servers become full and prevent players from applying for the transfer?

Since I haven't seen anything on this matter and if the servers can become full, this can and most likely prevent friends/ls mates from moving into the same server to play together.

I think this is a very valid question/concern (and one I asked alot before I found out I wouldn't have to move at all) and I hope it gets answered.

[babycakin]

Out of curiosity, can the servers become full and prevent players from applying for the transfer?

Since I haven't seen anything on this matter and if the servers can become full, this can and most likely prevent friends/ls mates from moving into the same server to play together.

So from what I understand, in a recent interview with Yoshi, once the applciation are up to transfer, it will list how many spots are available in that specific server. That way you can know if your whole linkshell can transfer there.

Now what I would like to know is if any of the legacy servers in NA/EU were near capacity or were getting close. It would be such a shame if some were close only to be clogged by player's account in which they have no intention of returning. Just imagine a full server with half of it completely filled with non played accounts. That would just waste such great space for other adventurers who want to come and join you in that server; like friends or family.

Any community rep can answer this, maybe ease the worry and can inform us if all legacy servers still have plenty of room even before the transfer applications are up giving people the chance to leave servers? Thanks!

[Vilhem]

I think this just applies to Phase 3. The unique intro will probably be in Phase 4

[Kirito]

I think this just applies to Phase 3. The unique intro will probably be in Phase 4

I hope so. Since they can just migrate the starting cities from 1.0. Hopefully they still give us air port access...