retire restriction

[Serilda]

Yes, people would less miserable if they weren't all fighting for resources on overfilled servers while others are virtually ghost towns. Set up some kind of free migration off the full worlds for people who want to move closer to friends on less busy servers and reopen character creation when/if the populations stabilise, or use a system like FFXI's world passes so only friends of existing characters can join the busy worlds. The problems with the current system are plain to see every single day (and that's just what bleeds over onto the official forums).

[Urthdigger]

I really wish they'd offer free server transfers, perhaps with a time restriction on how often it can be done. For many people, they want to be able to play with a wide diverse number of people. I want to play with my friends, sure, but some are on Excalibur, some are on Gilgamesh, some are scattered far and wide. I also want to hang out with the RP community and see the events they put on, and play with the FC members I've been with since 1.0. No matter where I go, I'm going to regret not being with OTHER people on other servers.

The solution, thus, winds up to cram all the people onto one server so they can play together. And that's how you get Balmung.

[BigRed5392]

Hades actually wasn't a original server it was created to help overcrowding of other servers but was also part of the first group that got shut down and merged into other active servers and was the shortest lived live server.

my g.f played ff11 for 7 years from ps2 na launch till abyssea. it was locked a good bit with odin, simple because it was funny to log in and people would see "welcome to hades". My g/fs server garuda was 1 of the first NA servers, but was merged with lakshmi.

I was pointing out it was locked from character creation.

[Lexia]

my g.f played ff11 for 7 years from ps2 na launch till abyssea. it was locked a good bit with odin, simple because it was funny to log in and people would see "welcome to hades". My g/fs server garuda was 1 of the first NA servers, but was merged with lakshmi.

I was pointing out it was locked from character creation.

For good portion of XI lifespan all servers were locked and weren't able to choose which person went to unless had a world pass. Wasn't like XIV that were could choose which server person wanted to be on.

[Vexander]

People are overpopulating 2 servers for no real reason, then complain about a non existent crisis they created

This is an oxymoron, you do realize?

Non-Existent Crisis. Means nothing is wrong.
Crisis they created. Means there is a crisis, it was created.

You can't have it both ways. Just because it doesn't affect -you- doesn't mean there isn't a crisis.

[Kaethra]

ESO has everyone on one megaserver for each region. It has far more players than FFXIV as well. Putting players on different realms is an outdated mechanic from a previous decade who's only purpose is to drive hype and realm transfer sales.

Instancing zones solves the issue, ensures zones are never dead, and allows friends to always play with one another.

[Inosaska]

ESO has everyone on one megaserver for each region. It has far more players than FFXIV as well. Putting players on different realms is an outdated mechanic from a previous decade who's only purpose is to drive hype and realm transfer sales.

Instancing zones solves the issue, ensures zones are never dead, and allows friends to always play with one another.

More companies should copy eve online method of using servers.

[LadyKairi]

Doing that is more likely to have people not play the game at all. You can't force people onto small servers, especially in an overly saturated market where they can just as easily play a different game.

I mean, if more people would spread out to less populated worlds to play with their friends, we wouldn't have so many dead servers.

[Saccharin]

many months pass and any server still have restriction for create new character, SE need retired this rectirction because many people want create character in same server char friends

The restrictions are there for a reason. If a server has had restrictions for a long time then it's too populated. They are too lax with restrictions.

I bet you'd be the first to post if there were 4 hour queues to get on it.