[Dev Help Please] Character Transfers Early

[Nadrojj]

Great. I wonder how you guys will manage transfer for servers that are currently 'blocked' from new character creations.

Thanks for announcing something 95% of the player base is going to be happy about SE, but I MUST WHINE ABOUT IT STILL!

[ArkhamNative]

Great. I wonder how you guys will manage transfer for servers that are currently 'blocked' from new character creations.

Well, a transfer of an established character shouldn't add to new character area congestion. But in a similar issue, the ARR world transfer news item does say: "Due to fluctuations in World populations, certain Worlds may not be available for transfer." Consider a worst case: thousands want to transfer to Hyperion or another of the most-full worlds. Impossible situation.

October is also when Yoshida mentioned they would start adding new worlds. I wonder if it's related. Like in FFXI, SE let people apply to transfer to new worlds for free when they opened new worlds, and that would probably relieve some pressure on currently over-full worlds. Last week Yoshi-P posted that he plans to address a lot of questions and complications of world transfers players may have in another post before transfers become available.

[nerdycanuck]

My hope is just that they offer free or discounted transfers to start. My husband and I both ended up on a server other than the one our friends are on because of character creation restrictions.

[midnightb]

i posted my thoughts on this issue in some other buried thread and while this
is good news for a large player base my disappointment on this matter has not
changed. i am sure i am not alone here in that i am part of a large ff11 community
who were very eager and excited to make the transition to ff14 upon release.
congestion issues were absolutely expected and honestly were not a real concern
as i knew SE would resolve those problems as quickly as they could. the problem
is the fact that the community i was to be a part of were all split up across servers
in JP, EU, and NA. some of us have been playing solo while others were lucky to
at least be with 1 or 2 friends. because of this, the experience of learning the game
with our friends, leveling, doing dungeons as a group, and progression during these
early levels has been ruined. this is not going to be fixed with an apology and an
assurance that world transfers will now begin somewhere in early october.

[DerpyCubone]

Huzzah, now when can we expect to see a name change service to go along with our Fantasia potion?

[Arasiel]

Huzzah, now when can we expect to see a name change service to go along with our Fantasia potion?

I know! Need name change.

[antiviolence]

I know! Need name change.

I misspelled my name but couldn't risk making a new character because of the server lock.

[ChaoticDarkGriever]

As long things do not get too wonky with the transfers like lost of items, then I do not mind them pushing back the date a bit. The last thing I need is to find some (or most) of my stuff gone/missing because of transferring servers.

[Reika]

As long things do not get too wonky with the transfers like lost of items, then I do not mind them pushing back the date a bit. The last thing I need is to find some (or most) of my stuff gone/missing because of transferring servers.

Even worse, your char gets transferred to someone elses account.

[BigBossCL]

Woot, I can finally join the rest of my guild. Definitely some good news.