Final Fantasy 14 Offers Incentives to Players who Join the New Oceania Data Center
After months of struggle, Final Fantasy 14 is finally opening the Oceania data center it has been trying to create. To foster its growth, Final Fantasy 14 is offering incentives to players who create new characters or transfer existing ones to the Oceania data center’s new worlds–Bismarck, Ravana, Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan.
Last year, Final Fantasy 14 announced the Oceania data center, with a planned release in February 2022 after several delays. In spite of the previous delays, the Oceania data center, called ‘Materia’, is opening on January 25th–two weeks earlier than its original release date.
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Materia opens simultaneously with the resuming of sales of Final Fantasy 14. To incentivize players to join the new data center, and to migrate from existing ones, the critically-acclaimed MMORPG is offering special rewards and boosts for those who do. New players will receive 10 silver Chocobo feathers, which can be exchanged for powerful leveling gear, and double experience until level 80 for making a character, plus 1,000,000 gil and 15 days of free play time for reaching level 30.
Existing characters receive the same Road to 80 experience boost, and transfer to the new data center is free. However, these characters will also get 10 gold Chocobo feathers–normally only available through the Friend Referral program–instead of silver, which can be exchanged for exclusive mounts.
The delay in the data center’s creation was caused by the national shortage of semiconductors from COVID-19 and the boom in cryptocurrency mining operations. Final Fantasy 14’s meteoric rise over 2021 And the launch of its massively-successful Endwalker DLC, sped up its plans for expansion
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