[2021] [Megathread] Gauging Interest for Regional Server Transfer

Greetings Adventurers,

As we continue to work on cross regional transfers, we wanted to get a better sense of who is wanting to transfer, from where to where, and what sort of features/accommodations you want and/or need.

We’ve examined how this feature could work and there are several different approaches to take, but they have different impacts on time to complete based on how many people we expect to use the feature. So here are some questions for you to help us understand:

• Would you be using cross-region yourself?
• From which region to which region?
• Would you want us to spend more time for a polished user experience (interface etc) or emphasize speed of delivery? We have heard many people say speed of delivery and that is our current focus.
• Would it be major negative to you if a required step was abandoning your house, and that was refunded later?
• Is it ok if in the process of this transfer your character is non playable for a period of time up to a day (but possibly less)?

Please utilize the template for your response. Your help in keeping content unrelated to the questions from the template out of this thread is much appreciated!

As this intended for information gathering and not strictly for discussion, we are enabling slow mode for this post, thank you for your understanding!

Hey all!

Thank you all for taking the time to post to this topic! Your responses have given us a good amount of data to review.

There is clearly interest in cross-region server transfers. While we have plans for an elegant solution in the long term, we are currently working on a near-term solution that will get you to the region you want to be in (though housing ownership will be impacted). Work is ongoing but we estimate the near term solution will be available in early 2022.

Thank you again for all of your responses and feedback!