Solution to Legacy Players Transferring to Non-Legacy Servers

[Viscount]

They aren't allowing legacy transfers for at least 6mo. This will be a non-issue by then. Dead horse continues to be beat.

awwww shucks.

[Vmage]

Once the player has reached the new world, all items and equipment are forever bound to the player (can't sell to NPCS, can't sell to the market). Therefore, it's in the players best interest to liquidate while on the legacy server if that player has items that he/she wish to sell (gil from these items would need to be left on legacy server assuming player is at the 100k cap).

players bypassed the WoW gold cap during transfers by buying low on their home AH, and reselling high on their new server

your idea solves the problem entirely

force-binding all items the character transfers with sound perfect

+1

[Vhailor]

What Cal said.

Either way, I suspect it's less an issue than one might fear. I don't know many people who would be willing to spend chunks of money transferring over a character just to "dominate" a market for all of a week. No matter how much someone brings over, the collective flow of goods across the entire server would rapidly dwarf their contribution.

[Trevor]

The legacy players who want to transfer off need to reflect on why they want to transfer off. It's likely the very same reason people don't want them to be able to transfer for months.

[Vmage]

The legacy players who want to transfer off need to reflect on why they want to transfer off. It's likely the very same reason people don't want them to be able to transfer for months.

character creation was disabled shortly after the servers came up

a couple friends were able to create characters on hyperion during P4, 3 were not

i don't want to tell them they simply can't play with us throughout early access / whenever they decide to lift the creation restrictions

we'll need an option to at minimum transfer to a low-pop legacy server the first few days of EA just to be able to accommodate the fragmented communities the P4 debacle has created

[darthkyron]

Honestly what is it with legacy players wanting to join non legacy servers?
I can't see an honest respond Exept for the fact that Legacy players want to influence the new players.
If you say the following
.-"My friends can't play with me" Well tell your friends to make a character on your server
OR better yet, YOU create a char on they're server , You won't pay anything extra by doing that.

You guys want Square enix to find a way so you guys play on new servers without disrupting the balance.
NO TY.
I suggest Square enix Focus on better things, like making patches, balancing jobs, fixing errors.

[Duelle]

The legacy players who want to transfer off need to reflect on why they want to transfer off. It's likely the very same reason people don't want them to be able to transfer for months.

Simple. I like my character with his tatoo. I like my Giantsgall Sword. My friends don't want to play on Balmung. I have to abandon my character entirely to play with my friends.

Mind you, I don't have all lv50s (PLD was my only 50 on my legacy character). I'm not exactly rich either. Hell, the most valuable thing I have is my PLD AF gear and the aforementioned sword. If I could transfer off Balmung on to Diabolos I'd do it in a snap.

[moriandrio]

Simple. I like my character with his tatoo. I like my Giantsgall Sword. My friends don't want to play on Balmung. I have to abandon my character entirely to play with my friends.

Mind you, I don't have all lv50s (PLD was my only 50 on my legacy character). I'm not exactly rich either. Hell, the most valuable thing I have is my PLD AF gear and the aforementioned sword. If I could transfer off Balmung on to Diabolos I'd do it in a snap.

But that is your fault or the fault of your friends. If you don't want to give up your legacy char and your friends don't want to play on a legacy server you will have to wait 6 months.
You can't have everything in life, bear with it!

[Molly_Millions]

Really guys? Did we need to start this stuff again? In a few months it won't even matter.

[Cal]

Really guys? Did we need to start this stuff again? In a few months it won't even matter.

Some people want to move sooner than the potential 6 or more months down the road.
I don't want to reroll but if say.... the legacy servers end up being locked due to being at capacity there's no way to play with friends that are new to FF14 if they have no way to get onto a legacy server.
If Legacy servers end up being too full to transfer on to, I'm sort of hoping they're considering adding a new legacy server when the World Transfer service comes up so the player base can be redistributed a bit.

Like first phase of transfers, free to 'newly created legacy' server, then the next wave of paid transfers would be more likely to be able to reach the worlds they wanted to.
(and leave the New server a 'free transfer' option until it reaches a healthy popullation)