FFXIV 6.18 patch out today, with new worlds and data centre travel

pcgamesn.com:

Final Fantasy’s XIV’s 6.18 patch is released today, with the most significant changes including new worlds for both the RPG’s Japanese and European servers, and the added ability to travel your characters between data centres.

Two new chaos and two new light worlds have been added to the European servers, along with Meteor, a fresh data centre, being added to the Japanese region. The long-awaited data centre travel system has also been implemented, allowing players to travel to other data centres, and play with friends who are native to them. Players visiting other centres will have “traveller” added to their nameplate, and be subject to various restrictions.

Legendary and unspoiled gathering nodes are inaccessible to travelling players. Similarly, retainers cannot be summoned or hired, and you cannot put up items for sale at a foreign data centre’s marketplace. Linkshells cannot be formed or joined, neither can PvP teams. There is also the possibility that your chosen data centre is not accessible – as stated on Final Fantasy XIV’s official Twitter, if your target world is oversubscribed or “congested”, it will be temporarily disabled as a destination.