The MMO is testing cross-region travel with some major restrictions.
Long gone are the days where you couldn’t leave your designated server in Final Fantasy 14. A patch in 2019 introduced the ability to hop between servers within your data center, before an update in 2022 went one step further and let folk hop between data centers within their region. Players hoped that it would extend to cross-region travel, but that hasn’t been the case. Until now. Kind of.
Here’s the good news: Cross-region travel is being trialled, beginning on March 25 and continuing until Dawntrail releases. Here’s the potentially bad news: You can only hop over to the Oceanian data center. That means that players on Japanese, North American and European servers will be able to travel over to Oceanian servers, but Oceanian players are stuck right where they are.
It does make sense to use the Oceanian data center as a guinea pig. It’s by far the least populated of the four regions—it was only added in 2022, and while some folk migrated over, many chose to stay behind in their already established communities.
