So... When Will I Actually Get To Play With My Friends?

[dnicacios]

Looking forward for the world transfer as well.
I really hope this 2-3 months is wrong, it was said in his last news that it would be very soon, and very soon is not 2-3 months.

[Cienna]

There is no firm date. The article above was from over 2 weeks ago, Yoshi made a post last week saying:

Though there is still some work to be done, we hope to bring you an announcement regarding the availability of World transfers in the very near future.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...54#post1247254

Very near future is not specific. He also said announcement, not necessarily the commencing of, so all this means that yes, transfers could happen this month- or as the article said, possibly in Nov/Dec. The longer they wait, the more some people will give up and move on. It is on their radar, they are working on as Yoshi said in his post, but when it will happen has yet to be set.

[MokoMuncher]

In MOG station it says mid September so not sure why its not ready yet:

World Transfer Service
If you find yourself unable to play with friends because they're on a different World, please consider using our World transfer service.
* World transfer service is scheduled to begin mid-September. An announcement will be made on The Lodestone at that time.

[Silverwalk]

<- Waiting for transfers as well.

What's sad is that they already have a free transfer system in place that they have used twice before, most recently just before release to allow legacy players to move servers.

Why not give us free transfers using the system they already have?

That system did not allow you to move to full servers, but people could move off full servers making space for others.