World Transfer Service Guideline
World Classifications
New World: A recently added World. Players who transfer to or create new characters on designated New Worlds will receive special bonuses.
Congested World: A crowded, highly populated World. Cannot be selected for new character creation or World transfer destinations.
Standard World: Inhabited by a manageable number of player characters.
Preferred World: Relatively sparsely populated World with room to spare. Players who transfer to or create new characters on these Worlds will receive special bonuses.
* Characters created on a New World and characters who transfer from a Congested World to a Preferred World will not be able to World transfer again until 90 days have passed.
Service Charges
World Transfer Service Fee:
- £12 per transfer
- Transfers to New Worlds: Free
- Transfers from Congested Worlds to Preferred Worlds: Free
Conditions for World Transfer
The following conditions must be met in order to transfer a character from one World to another:
- You must be the owner of the Square Enix account using the service.
- You must have an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.
- Three days must have elapsed since the World Transfer Service was last used on the service account.
- You must be logged out of the game.
- Your character cannot be enlisted in a free company, holding a free company petition, signed to a free company petition, or applying to join a free company.
- Your character cannot have items for sale on the market.
- Your character cannot have items entrusted to the Calamity Salvager NPC.
- Your character must rehire any retainers carried over from Version 1.0.
- Your character must be logged out while outside of any instanced areas.
- Your character must be logged out while outside of any residential areas.
- Your character cannot have made reservations for a Ceremony of Eternal Bonding.
- Your character cannot be currently undertaking the quest The Ties that Bind.
- Your character must not be logged out in the Ivory Chapel.
- Your character and its retainers cannot be in possession of a ceremony invitation or blank invitation.
- Your character must not own any land, estate, or apartment housing.
· Ownership must be relinquished before a World transfer will be possible.
· It is possible to perform a World transfer without relinquishing ownership ONLY IF your character is transferring to a New World, or transferring from a Congested World to a Preferred World. In these cases, the land or apartment will be automatically relinquished and a designated amount of gil reimbursed. The maximum amount of gil that can be transferred, including the reimbursement, is 999,999,999 gil, and any gil exceeding this limit will be lost. Any existing estate on the land will be demolished.
- In the event that your estate has been automatically relinquished, your character cannot have housing items in the care of the Resident Caretaker NPC.
- In the event that your estate has been automatically relinquished, your character cannot have a chocobo in the care of the Housing Enthusiast NPC.
- Your character cannot be designated as the housemate of anyone on your Friend List.
· Before using the World transfer service, please remove the Friend that has designated your character as a housemate from your Friend List.
· It is possible for your character to transfer Worlds while still designated as a housemate ONLY IF transferring to a New World, or transferring from a Congested World to a Preferred World. In this case, your character's housemate status will be automatically removed.
- Your character must retrieve any optional items purchased via the Mog Station from the Delivery Moogle.
- If transferring to a New World, your character must have enough inventory space to receive additional items.
- If transferring from a Congested World to a Preferred World, your character must have enough inventory space to receive additional items.
The World Transfer Service cannot be used under the following circumstances:
- Your character has been transferred from Version 1.0, but has not logged into a World since the start of official service for FINAL FANTASY XIV.
- Your character has yet to complete the quest Close to Home.
- Your character is not displayed on the FINAL FANTASY XIV: Mog Station's service account selection screen.
- You are required to log out from FINAL FANTASY XIV before newly created characters are reflected on the FINAL FANTASY XIV: Mog Station. Please note that it may take time for newly created characters to appear after logging out.
- Less than three days have passed since the character to be transferred has been created.
- Your character has transferred to or has been created on a New World, and is currently under the 90 day transfer restriction.
- Your character has transferred from a Congested World to a Preferred World, and is currently under the 90 day transfer restriction.
- The character to be transferred has a pending name change that has yet to be processed.
World Transfer Process
- There may be instances where your character cannot be transferred to a specified World.
- Characters cannot be transferred to Worlds with restrictions on character creation.
- To transfer a character to a World belonging to a different data centre, you must select your desired destination World and proceed to the in-game character selection screen at least once. From the title screen, select Data Centre and choose the data centre that houses your desired World, then choose Proceed. When the Character Selection screen appears, select World at the upper right and choose your desired World from the list.
· This process is required even if you have not yet created a character on your desired destination World.
- In the event that the name of your character has already been chosen by another character on the destination World, you will be required to change your character's name upon logging in.
· Although the name of your character may be available at the time of application, multiple applications bearing characters with the same name may necessitate the renaming of your character when using this service.
- In the event that the name of your retainer is already being used by another retainer on the destination World, you will be required to change your retainer's name upon summoning them.
· It cannot be determined beforehand if your retainers will require name changes.
· Transferred characters may not appear immediately on the character selection screen after processing. Please wait before trying to log in again if your character's information is not immediately available.
Reminders
The following information will also be changed in accordance with World transfers:
- Character display on the Lodestone
- Lodestone character pages
- Lodestone blogs
- News, including comments on other player blogs
- Character display on the official forum
- Character transfers will not affect your followers and players you are following on the Lodestone.
· Upon transferring, you will no longer be shown as belonging to a free company or linkshell.
Character data transferred to the destination World:
- Retainers
- Moogle Letters
- Items including gear and minions
- Gil (Please note there is a limit to the amount of gil that can be transferred, and any gil exceeding this limit will be lost)
Character data that cannot be transferred to the destination World:
- Friend Lists
- Blacklists
- Linkshells (You will be removed from any linkshell)
- Free Companies (You will be removed from the free company)
- Housing (Ownership must be relinquished before a World transfer is possible)
- Scores from currently entered Triple Triad tournaments
- Jumbo Cactpot tickets purchased prior to World transfer
- Scores from Lord of Verminion tournaments
- Personal and party high scores for the Palace of the Dea