Square Enix Details Final Fantasy 14's New Data Center Travel System

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Final Fantasy XIV is getting a new data center travel system, and Square Enix has now explained how it works in a detailed blog post.

As it currently stands, players in Final Fantasy XIV are essentially locked into the data center they originally made their characters on and are only able to play the game with other players in that same data center. There are physical data centers for various regions like North America and Japan, followed by what Square Enix calls logical data centers, which each house multiple Worlds, aka servers. Come patch 6.18, the new data center travel system will make it so players can temporarily visit another logical data center in the same physical data center and essentially play the game like normal, with a few restrictions.

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While the system is similar to the already existing world visit system, data center travel allows players to visit worlds outside their own data center. After arriving on a new data center, players can progress through quests, form parties, add players to their friend list, engage in chat, buy items from the market board, and participate in raids, dungeons, and PvP. The same restrictions that apply while using the world visit system apply here. Primary features that can only be accessed on a character's original home world include housing, free companies, linkshells, and retainers. The process to visit another data center typically takes less than three minutes, though Square Enix notes that during