[Dev Help Please] Character Transfers Early

[RaphaelDDL]

Hello, everyone!

I know you all are extremely interested in when we will be starting our world transfer service. I apologize that the web site has not been updated and is displaying an older date, but I am happy to share that the service will be available in the beginning of October.

Apologies for the long wait, but we will be announcing further details very soon!

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

[Estellios]

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

They are open at off-peak times, like late night and early mornings. I have had 4 people make new characters on Hyperion in the last 2 weeks.

[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.