There are always going to be console wars and fanboys, and I'm not going to go there, but I did want to say that the players that are about to eagerly join all of you have mostly had to accomplish everything they've done with minimal power levelling, without level 75s around, and on a server where solid knowledge was limited and had to be learned first hand or read here.

I think we're all going to make a great contribution to the game, and personally I look forward to playing with all of you on Ragnarok.

I sympathize with the idea that no beta group has ever been migrated before, and I expect some grief that we're getting special treatment. However, a lot of us are zeroing out our gil balances and bringing in stacks of goods to be able to fight the 5x to 10x cost of items where (expletive deleted) RMT gil sellers exist. There is definitely going to be short term deflation around the 20th. If I was on a retail server, I'd be stacking gil for the arrival of eager sellers. There is just as much strategy about this move for players already in the retail worlds as there is for players figuring out how to migrate off Hydra without going broke.

We're never going to get over our platform wars, but if we can all be mature this migration can be a huge win for all players involved.

The reason that other systems never got to migrate and were forced to start over is because SE signed a multi-million dollar contract with Microsoft and entered into an agreement that guarantees microsoft customers the red carpet treatment for the xbox 360.

Dont worry, this migration will not cost servers or their AH's. I have been playing the beta since it came out and believe me, there were alot of the people that were playing it that sucked and I never saw anyone higher than level 24 on the entire time.

I played on the PC and now i am playing on the Xbox 360 and i must say, the prices of things are much cheaper. But what you MUST realise, the stuff we sold at auction went much cheaper so we just have less money to buy cheaper stuff. It was also good (and also bad) that i had to do everything (including sub job quest (1/21)) without a high level Hazza helping me every step of the was :D

Anyway, im looking forward to getting back to my old Mog House in Sandy, hope the mog aint had too many wild parties!

Also, any news on whether we will get to pick the server we enter??

Beyond them getting to transfer their characters. Look how long they've gotten to play without even having to pay for their characters.

Some people on the beta are actually in their 60's. Maybe SE should credit all of us PS2/PC players the same amount of time they gave the beta testers. I doubt it will ever happen but that's how it should be.

SE is trying very hard to keep the Xbox players. Especially on their own forum you have bunches of them claiming they won't buy the game if they don't get to have their characters transfered. I think SE has now spoiled them rotten, and when they do hit retail they'll start crying more. What's SE going to do then? Give them 1 million gil each to offset the inflation they were forced to join.

My last comment on this subject is they really must want to get rid of the PS2 side of the game. Everything is limited to that system. Graphics, storage, and many other features. If they found a way to drive them off there would be many more changes that both the PC and Xbox could handle much more easier than the PS2 could ever dream about. No offense PS2 users Sony made a ****** system. I know this because I own one.

this is going to suck.
they are all going to start with a good bit of money, so, as soon as their characters are emerged into our servers its going to be like a wave of gil buyers (simile, not accusation...) except with a taste for higher level gear.
prices for the better gear are probably going to plummet, where if they had to start over, prices would change very gradually, or maybe even stay balanced.
i just hope im dead wrong.

So, X-Box 360 Beta users got to level jobs and crafts with zero inflation. Now they are being allowed to transfer them all 'Herbie:Fully Loaded' over to existing servers.

Please let an immigration occur! I want to get out of Fairy and find a server with a lower inflation rate. 70k for a stack of beeswax is kinda high, although not totally outrageous as is was before the gil fix that ended most gil sellers' careers. I saw on a site for 414 something American dollars you can buy over 5 billion gil.

It's kewl that 360 players can transfer but what should the beta players to do from April 3 to the 20th

EDIT: Brother's a ******. Disregard previous message. Thank you.

Edited, Mon Mar 20 12:27:57 2006

Does this mean that an immigration will commence soon?