Dear SE, please unlock Balmung

[kyuven]

People paying to play with their friends on their home server, they can't because whatever reason.

Ask yourself: Why does home server ALWAYS mean "Balmung" in these complaints?
You never hear people on almost any other server except MAYBE gilgamesh complaining about this. There's over 5 dozen servers (i counted). Why does it have to be balmung?
Also, comparing the system of this game to WoW is faulty: the way our characters work and how much data they take up compared to a WoW character is astronomical. Just taking into account what our characters can do without getting into the nitty gritty of our appearance data means that each and every character is the equivalent of more than TEN WoW characters.
This means that a single character in FFXIV takes up more space on the servers than ten WoW characters, which means if 2000 people made 8 characters each, they'd be taxing the server's capacity in the same way as 160,000 WoW characters. Which means, conservatively, if we have 500,000 subscribers with 8 characters each (some have more, many have less) we're occupying as much space as 40 million WoW characters.
And that's *lowballing* it.