
this way you can play with anyone within the same data center, you visit worlds by interacting with the big aetheryte in any major location. Within any 1 data center you can freely visit other worlds under that data center, just some minor restrictions like no access to your retainers, other features. transferring to a preffered world is free of charge and comes with bonuses (exp boost until preferred status changes, or 90 days total whichever happens first) you have to pay to move a character from any world to a world that's not marked 'preferred' right now all of crystal's worlds are preferred because crystal worlds have low population due to it being full of heavy roleplayers and casual gameplay groups. You cannot change your region afaik, you would have to use a VPN to attempt to connect to another region other than your physical location.ĭata Centers right now are semi-travelable.

NA / EUR / JP and they're adding OCE for oceanic players (NZ, AUS, Hawaii, etc) in the updates for the EndWalker expansion releasing in November. Each Region of our planet has a group of data centers.
