Server Transfer?

[Yoko_Kurama]

Thank goodness I finally realized I can post here even while being under level 24. Anyways I have a lvl 19 character on adamantoise and just found out all my friends are on behemoth, will there be any sort of option to transfer my character come launch?

[REDace0]

I believe 2-3 weeks after launch the World Transfer Service will become available.

[Yoko_Kurama]

Ahh Domo

[ThusFarJay]

Producer Live Letter

Q12: Are you planning to have a world transfer service?

A12: As this is a game with world barriers, we will be preparing this service so you can move to the same world as old friends as well as new people you meet and become friends with through the Duty Finder. We plan on starting this fee-based service that will allow you to transfer to the world of your choice around 2-3 weeks after launch. Once we have finalized the details we will be sure to let you know.

[Crovax]

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You can say that was not their intention but it is exactly what they are doing. I have not met one person who has said, "I don't like my server I think I will try a new one". Nearly every person requesting a server transfer that I have met or seen online wants it based on be separated from a friend.

If what you were saying it is true and there are 2 people in Gilgamesh and three of their friends/family on diabolos-Don't you think giving the ability for the two friends on Gilgamesh to transfer to diabolos would help the community by putting less stress on a high stress server and increasing the population of a lower population server?

Yet they plan to charge people to make that move that they have to do because they capped servers early on.

My server is Adamantoise and it was capped for character creation and then the server my friends went to ended up capped when I tried to join them.

[Dremic]

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you can believe what you want, but youre wrong. why do you think your starting area wasnt insanely congested and you were able to complete your quests without hordes of people? why do you think the servers were incredibly stable?

if you want to play with your friends but they are too impatient to wait for character creation, that isn't SE money grabbing; thats your friends being impatient.


character creation opened up several times on every server even on the most populated ones. and that was open beta where ANYBODY can play.

[Zynol]

I am hoping this transfer business can happen earlier. I'm stuck on a Legacy server and would love to join my friends on their server. Lets hope they have it all ready and week 2 it will be available. I won't whine about the fee, but with all the server trouble they had in Open Beta they should give Legacy and Open Beta people one free transfer if they happen to slip onto the wrong server with all the error codes and issues.

That being said, I will happily pay for my transfer because I am legacy and that's how this went down to keep my previous character.

[Crovax]

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It is not about what I, or you believe. It's about what happened. I never received notice that, "This server is accepting new characters now". SE is money grabbing. You must be blinded by fan boism.

The system this game uses it is actually helpful to have a bit more of a horde around. The best groups I had while playing were the ones with 8 people netting massive xp. Though it was rare to find 8 people doing the same thing for very long in the starting areas to around 15. The starting areas could have used a bit more people.

[Yoko_Kurama]

*eats popcorn*

[Jaeral]

Interesting how long it takes people to jump at each others throats :x

On the subject: The method SE used might be money grabbing but let's consider for a moment that they are producing this game to also make just that: money.
Can't blame them to charge for such a service.
The argument that you got seperated from your friends is only half-valid too if you ask me because this was a Beta Phase and not wiping the character data completely was already a nod in our direction from SE. Dremic had a point saying people were too impatient to wait until character generation on a specific server opened again, granted SE's communication about opening/closing chargen really sucked tho but they were too busy ignoring 3102 and 90000 i think