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Mirae
02-03-2007, 14:10
Starting March 8, 2007, players will be able to create new characters on the World of their choice. Up until now, Worlds would be randomly assigned to characters upon their creation, while only players with World Passes could join their friends. However, with this new adjustment, all players, even ones without World Passes, will have the option to select their realm at the character selection screen.

Originally, the World Pass system was introduced to maintain a balance among all the Worlds and prevent overpopulation. However, with the continued stablization of each World's adventurer community and recent technical advances in server technology, it has been determined that allowing players to create new characters on Worlds of their choice would not greatly affect the current population balance.

In conjunction with this change, we have updated the character creation screen to include a new pull-down window from which players can select the World of their choice. Also, additional characters added to an account will no longer be automatically assigned to the same World as the first character. Players will be free to choose where they wish that new character to reside, be it the same World, or a completely different one.

Finally, the development team is continuing their work on World selection by making preparations for a new service that will allow players to move their characters to different Worlds. Please keep a close watch on the Topics page for further updates on this exciting feature.

*While all World Passes will become void after March 8, 2007, Gold World Passes will continue to be distributed to players who wish to purchase them. Any adventurers who would like to invite their friends to Vana'diel can still utilize the Gold World Pass feature and take advantage of the special benefits this unique system has to offer.

Yay
Seems they also wanna allow for already existing characters to move server which can be nice.


http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/1520/detail.html

Grae
02-03-2007, 15:01
OMG =D this makes me want to come back!

*move to other server*
*buy cheap SH*
*come back*

haw haw

Sephiroth912
02-03-2007, 16:20
osnap, this is badass. I'm gonna try getting some more friends into XI now :D

Dr. Aeyze
02-03-2007, 17:24
Ooooh yeah XD I can't wait for people to change servers, gonna pester a load of blogging friends to join Fenrir >.>;;

Müninn
02-03-2007, 17:57
Sweet! Now the RMT can move to whichever server they like and totally own all of FFXI!

~Manick~
04-03-2007, 02:51
It's a one-time thing.

They did this 2 years ago because of server overpopulation.
You sign up to it via NPC, and on a certain date, the world shift takes place.
It's not something where you can keep travelling in-between servers, and the next one probably won't be for another 2 years, lol.

Sephiroth912
04-03-2007, 03:21
no thats different. That was you get the opportunity to move servers. This eliminates normal world passes (gold ones still will be there for the benefits) and allows the user to pick their server when creating a new character. Totally different.

~Manick~
04-03-2007, 09:31
no thats different. That was you get the opportunity to move servers. This eliminates normal world passes (gold ones still will be there for the benefits) and allows the user to pick their server when creating a new character. Totally different.
No, if you read the whole thing from the site, it says they are also doing a World Shift. All I'm saying is, the World Shift will only be a one-time thing, not like on some games where you can constantly jump between servers and/or choose your server everytime you log in.

I know they are eliminating world passes, that I don't really care about anyway, lol.

Sephiroth912
04-03-2007, 19:11
o, didnt see that part. You made it sound like it was just going to be a world shift only man :P