When will the login restrictions be lifted?

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Originally Posted by Aldeus

I'm not sure what the stove is in this analogy. Is it creating a character on the server? If so, I take full responsibility for creating a character in 2010 when the servers were dead. Had I only the foresight not to build a community of friends on Balmung! My hubris has ruined me!

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I am aware Balmung was a legacy server. There is nothing there to keep legacy players bound to that server any longer, like there had been in the beginning. I sense sarcasm, or at least mockery as that is what people are wont to do when they don't like something, but I shall entertain nonetheless.

I suppose the stove would be the amount of players on the server and the heat of the stove would be server capacity. The crying would be players refusing to leave for sake of friends and other obligations. The first aid is server transfer incentives. Players demanding SE to fix (no, you hurt us!) may very well wind up with SE forcing a fix that may be "worse" yet.

Oddly enough, if you really are a legacy player, I'm not "blaming" you. If anything, I blame the people that flocked to your server due to the reputation it acquired as being the unofficial RP server. However, simply sitting back and digging your heels in the dirt and refusing to budge only prolongs the issue at hand, regardless if you are a newer player to the server or there from 1.0.

Until then, enjoy the 4-hour queues.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

This thread:

SE: The stove is hot.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: *Puts hand on hot stove and cries.*
SE: We said it was hot. First aid is in the bathroom. Go take care of yourself. We need to cook.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: No! You hurt us, so you fix it!

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I moved to Omega like SE wanted us to, now im stuck again in 2 hour queues and cant transfer for another 90 days.

This whole thing has been a complete clusterfuck. New servers should have been added before stormblood and not just 2.

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Originally Posted by Genaxx

I moved to Omega like SE wanted us to, now im stuck again in 2 hour queues and cant transfer for another 90 days.

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With the funniest bit being the server still being open for free transfers + incentives in spite of that.

But I'm sure "somehow" that's gonna be the player's fault as well. I don't know how or why. But someone is always going to put the blame on players rather than SE, no matter how badly they eff up.

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Originally Posted by Ferrasper

I know Balmung has more people then Gilgamesh, but 4 hours seems a little excessive. This is coming form someone on Greg too. The most I have waited is 45 minutes.

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Balmung queues between 1-8pm can range from 2-4 hours easily. Twelve help you if you get an immediate disconnect or Directx11 in between. The problem Balmung has right now is it's become a multi-community server. You have raiders, roleplayers, casuals and etc all on one server. Despite the heavy RP focus, they are numerous PvE only players, which exacerbates the queues that much more. Simply put, the server can't handle everyone at once. It's easy to say "just leave" but this wouldn't be an issue if SE either had better servers or hadn't been greedy and closed transfers ages ago. It's not exactly a secret Balmung's population is massive.

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Originally Posted by Zojha

With the funniest bit being the server still being open for free transfers + incentives in spite of that.

But I'm sure "somehow" that's gonna be the player's fault as well. I don't know how or why. But someone is always going to put the blame on players rather than SE, no matter how badly they eff up.

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Of course it's the players fault. How dare we blame poor lil ole Square Enix. Unless it's about the cash shop! Then they're absolute monsters.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

I am aware Balmung was a legacy server. There is nothing there to keep legacy players bound to that server any longer, like there had been in the beginning.

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But there is, people have friends (yes they could move also), FC (and yes there always join new one), but in my case a house. Yes SE would give me the amount I paid for the house back but I already checked out the server I thought about going to with an alt and all the housing in the zone I would want are gone so I would not be able to get a house back after transferring.

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Originally Posted by JunseiKei

This thread:

SE: The stove is hot.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: *Puts hand on hot stove and cries.*
SE: We said it was hot. First aid is in the bathroom. Go take care of yourself. We need to cook.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: No! You hurt us, so you fix it!

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Correction.

SE: The stove is hot, but instead of turning it off, we'll still allow people to use it... for a fee.
Balmung & Gilgamesh players: So we can use it if we pay you?
SE: Absolutely!
Balmung & Gilgamesh players: Cool!

Balmung is so large, they could make an entire data center out of it.

If I were to guess, I would say about 2 weeks after Omega is released:
People will be back to a schedule of logging in, capping tomes, and Omega clears in 1 night. Plus the rest will just quit entirely at the difficulty spike. Just a guess anyhow.

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Originally Posted by Doki

If I were to guess, I would say about 2 weeks after Omega is released:
People will be back to a schedule of logging in, capping tomes, and Omega clears in 1 night. Plus the rest will just quit entirely at the difficulty spike. Just a guess anyhow.

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Yea my guess would least for balmung and Gilgamesh is that least 25% of the population will drop off .

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Originally Posted by Roda

What SE needs to do, if they're not going to enforce the afk timer and ban people for exploiting, is to periodically take down any zone server with a retainer bell in it and purge the game of the 100s to 1000s of afk players. Cities, housing wards, housing interiors, and the endgame hubs all taken down every 45 minutes with system warnings broadcasted every 5 minutes starting at 30 minutes until zone refresh.

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So...screw anyone that roleplays then? Gee thanks.

My question is... They just made a big to-do about moving and upgrading (some of) their server groups, which i think included the congested realms. If the servers are supposed to be able to handle a larger amount of stress, they should lift the limits before hitting the queue.

It just seems odd that you make a big mention about upgrading the servers, and then not do a thing to utilize said upgrade.

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Originally Posted by Roda

What SE needs to do, if they're not going to enforce the afk timer and ban people for exploiting, is to periodically take down any zone server with a retainer bell in it and purge the game of the 100s to 1000s of afk players. Cities, housing wards, housing interiors, and the endgame hubs all taken down every 45 minutes with system warnings broadcasted every 5 minutes starting at 30 minutes until zone refresh.

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You realize people will just AFK out in the open world then, yes? Once everyone knows about these new rules, they'll just avoid the predetermined locations.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

But there is, people have friends (yes they could move also), FC (and yes there always join new one), but in my case a house. Yes SE would give me the amount I paid for the house back but I already checked out the server I thought about going to with an alt and all the housing in the zone I would want are gone so I would not be able to get a house back after transferring.

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Just as a thought on your concern, while entire zones might be claimed on the preferred servers for housing unlike Balmung plots seem to open up without being outright sold. I just bought a house in Mist on Coeurl over the weekend after the whole zone had been claimed through most of the week. I didn't even intend to but one of my quests sent me to the Red Rooster area so I figured I'd check it and sure enough, there was a small plot available for 3M. I would guess if you were actively camping it and checking frequently, it'd be even easier to get a plot. However, I could be wrong and my fortune may have just been incredibly high on Saturday.

Well i did see couple small houses available in the mist in the zone i like but I have medium. But that one of the reason kjerping me from transferring i don't want to actively hunt to reclaim what I already have.