I know this will probably fall on deaf ears, but after turning away another friend this evening I broke down and came to make a hopeful thread. Over the past several months I have had more than a few friends eager to play the game and yet they inevitably turn away because Balmung is never. Open.

No matter what time of day I've looked, no matter when THEY'VE looked, never open. And we're adults, with responsibilities and jobs and so on. None of us can sit around all day hoping to catch the 20 minute window the server might actually unlock for, if it even DOES anymore.

As far as I know we're not even the most populated server anymore, not by half. Of course we are fairly active which plays a part in things but STILL.

Why don't I just leave? Because I'm a roleplayer, and many of my friends are roleplayers. We want to stay where the RP is. I also have a FC and a Linkshell here that I enjoy very much. They have become my friends as well. I am not going to just up and leave server because I haven't known them as long as I have other friends.

Just, please, Square. I'm begging you here, stop leaving Balmung under permanent lockdown, it's ridiculous. ESPECIALLY when you aren't even decent enough to tie the server limits to accounts instead of characters. God forbid any of them ever want to make an alt in the future...