If you have an Xbox 360, and you get the 360 game on the 19th, you can log in with your PC or PS/2 Playonline ID and password and play your character on a 360. Just to be clear, there is no FFXI for Xbox, only 360.

360 beta players that want to play their beta characters must wait for their data to be migrated from Hydra to their chosen server on the 20th. 360 players that want to start new characters can play on the 19th, but won't be able to select a world without a worldpass and may ***** up their character data transfer if they chose a specific world at the World Shifter.

I am a 360 beta player who also bought the PC version so I can play on both platforms once my character is transferred. Thanks to the XBCD drivers and the 360 patch, playing FFXI on a PC after playing on the 360 is seamless and doesn't require Vulcan keyboarding.

I think a lot of us are coming in well aware of the economy differences. I know I spent all my gil and bought items that I knew were highly desirable based on talking to players on my intended real server. I quested the three main teleport scrolls, but held them for sale after the transfer.

I can't speak for our experience level compared to veterans who have leveled multiple jobs. I think we had a lot of crap players because the beta was free. Qufim was a true demonstration of the Peter Principle. I'd like to hope that mostly talented characters are moving forward to the subscription servers. I do know that we didn't have a lot of experienced players to help us, we learned a lot on our own, and didn't have level 75s around to make anything mindlessly easy. My Magicite mission for rank 5 took an alliance of 10 people and 14 hours.

After playing on a server so jammed that S-E had to stop taking registrations, my biggest fear is going to be forming parties anywhere, any time, with any job mix I want. I think that luxury is gone forever. There were only 2,000 players on Ragnarok the other night. Eeek.

No. I remember reading that the XBOX 360 BETA testers are going to be able to transfer their characters to other servers.

Neither... I think they are going to stay on thier beta server until the 20th. The world selection period merely ends on the 3rd. So SE is going to take 17 days to actually set up the move.
Or, maybe, Xbox players can't play for 17 days because SE will be denying them service... hmmm. I don't really know.
But, they won't be starting over, I guess that's the main thing. They're able to bring thier characters to the regular servers that they made on the beta server.

I hope that they open this up for the other two platform to migrate over. i would like to bring my character from bahamut to kujata, so i dont have to work on my whm on kujata anymore, just so i can teleport myself. Teleports are 2-4k nowadays, that is if anyone is doing it. i remeber when that was free or only 500gils!!