I can't believe people are bashing the Japanese, because "a" they can't understand them so if anything bad happens, they can blame it on them; "b" they are mostly high lvl characters so people get jealous.
I have seen so many North American Characters begging for items and money... Japanese characters are VERY GENEROUS. They don't jack up the price for anything...
The economy around here has always been the same as anywherelse:

- High Demand + Low Supply = High Prices
- Low Demand + High Supply = Low Prices

And most of the time Japanese players are the one buying junk like silk, crystals,... because these guys are the one highly advanced in crafts. So they do help out new characters. Cause without the high lvl people buying junk, you'll get no money to buy your lvl 5 armor.

I think having people from a different culture on the server is a great chance to learn about a different way of playing. Have you ever been in a American group where people keep complaining about low XP or some other miserable issues? I have been a lot...
Japanese groups are well structured, they are polite and they approach the game with a more "zen" way. It's not for nothing that they have the best games in the world and they get it first. The y make the most of a game and have fun with it.
Right now I'm in qufim trying to lvl up to 30 to be a paladin. The vibe I'm getting from my fellow american players is just not very sane. They all want XP, more XP, and more and more. They don't help people in need. But I am nicely surprised that more and more NA players are copying the japanese style of play...

Stop bashing the japanese because they own. And you don't understand why.

And another thing here. I'm surprised that nobody ever said some sh*t about Square for not putting enough servers out from the beginning, I mean I saw plenty supplies of games on shelves this last month, but I don't see plenty of servers available... When I called them about getting logged, all they can say that it's my fault... We all experienced connection loss, I'm not a single case. And they won't admit it openly. Stop bashing each other and get to the point of this real topic
Which is the world migration, the first thing you guys think about is segregation???? It's not because we're in virtual gaming world that we can't learn from our very history...

You know, I thought about it, and I like the idea of only the **** North Americans going to their own server. Go ahead and segregate yourself from the japanese players, less rude inconsiderate people to do with.

Just to get the point across, how many of you have had a random strange hand your newb cash or items? How many of you have been raised? How many of you are getting cash by selling junk like silks? If any was a yes, YOU'VE SEEN HOW GENEROUS AND NICE THE JAPANESE ARE. God, if there wasn't any worse arguement than to seperate ourselves from kind, helpful, and all around nice people, I don't know what it is. Get off your high horses, you all got to start anew at sometime, and someone is always gonna top you.

Here is my question. If my friend is planning to buy this game after 29th, will he be in the same server with me if I go to the other servers?

Q: Some friends and I are, on the same current world, are planning to move.
Will we be moved to the same new world?
A: Yes you will all be moved to the same world if you all have registered to
move and are all on the same current world. All characters from the same
existing world will be moved to the same new world. Even though there may
be multiple new worlds, all characters registered on one world will all move
to the same new world.

The economy for low level players is out of wack in my opinion.

Why, you ask ?

High level japanese players artificially inflate the prices of low level items. They know where these common items drop, they farm them, and sell them for 5 times they're worth.

North American players don't have the same access to these area's, or the knowledge of these drops yet. We're slowly finding out as we level up. This wouldn't of been an issue had north american servers been created.

Don't believe me ? Go look at lvl 20-40 items which are 10 times better then the newbie items and only sell for 2,000 gil. Then you get some lvl 10 item which sells for 40,000 gil ?

Give me a break.

I don't see where all the complaints are coming from about 'screwed up economies'. So far there is nothing I've wanted that I couldn't afford with a little bit of work and patience. Sounds like some of you are only from EQ or nothing else, try Anarchy Online or Ragnarok Online, the state of their economies would make you weep.

Okay, so maybe some of you are refering to the price of synthesis items. Simple thought: it doesn't matter yet. You should be using hard earned cash on equipment to further yourself, then worry about synthesizing crap. Also, not sure of other servers, but most expensive thing I've ever seen is 500k (Black Ribbon), and it's lvl 70, and an english speaking Japanese thf/nin told me he can easily make 100k+ a day on just the money high level goblins in the Outlands drop. (more if he really goes at it)

Zandder: You'll still be able to randomly end up in the world if you're brand new, otherwise normal rules of World Passes will apply to the new servers.

The should dump this idea and just split up the ***'s and na's :( I don't care about decrease in crystal value and stuff guess what we don't need ***'s to give us a starting base in a mmorpg. I was one of the first players on the eq prexus server and we did fine with out people selling loot to us or us being able to pharm stuff for them. We did just fine we worked our way up the ladder. I personally would rather be on a server of no one being over level 30 that is all americans then a server that has all levels but it's like half half. if u run around "hailing" people only like half of them speak english :(

(sorry for the rant just my 2 cent from sometimes feeling like i'm the only english speaking player)

The only bad thing about this is you're not sure if your friends be on the same server as you do. With this reason, I'm sure most JP will not move because at high lvl, you need a group to kill dragon and high lvl mob. I'm also sure alot of NA will not move because of this reason. Imagine you transfer to a world and found out that your wife is in another world. (Someone is going to sleep on the couch for a while)

New characters will be able to get WP for the new servers . This is just moving existing characters to the new servers. They are doing this for two reasons. 1) Current servers are getting too crowded and want to add new servers and 2) they dont want the new servers to have no one on them. So if a bunch of players move, the world will be already in progress when new characters start on them.

Zandder if you have a chacrector on a server and you make a new one and want him on that server as well you just need to type the name of the server into the select world thing without a world pass and it should let you in since you already have a char on it