Lodestone: Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds

[Ultimatecalibur]

Can confirm. Just went and looked at the mogstation and neither Balmung nor Gilgamesh appear. In any event, this is only temporary. They did it back when Heavensward released in the hopes a flux of new players won't populate the already massive servers. Give it 3-4 months and they'll be open for transfer again.

Doubt it unless they take a serious population dive. Balmung and Gilgamesh will likely be closed to transfers/creation until they drop to about 2/3rds their current population.

[Jandor]

The whole EU is congested? That's a surprise.

Guess people spreading doom and gloom about FFXIV being in decline will be disappointed, which is nice.

[Raynar]

About time to drain the Swamp. Good work Dev team for making right choice in locking out those servers. #MAKEFF14AWESOMEAGAIN

[Ultimatecalibur]

The whole EU is congested? That's a surprise.

Chaos is the smallest Datacenter at 8 worlds with each other datacenter having 10 to 12 worlds. Of the 3 sectors (NA/JP/EU), EU is the only one with only one datacenter.

Guess people spreading doom and gloom about FFXIV being in decline will be disappointed, which is nice.

Most of the doom and gloom is repeats of the same stuff from after 2.57. People are once again panicking about the end of expansion downturn.

[EssenceFlux]

Seems like a lot of EU players will have some stable homes, that's nice. New servers with fresh open housing? Sounds real nice actually.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Doubt it unless they take a serious population dive. Balmung and Gilgamesh will likely be closed to transfers/creation until they drop to about 2/3rds their current population.

That is never going to happen. You think approximately 26,000 characters will relocate? What incentive do players on either of those servers have to transfer off? If Square actually wants to stabilize their populations, then make transfers off either of them free. Until they do, people aren't going to shell out $18, especially with pre-existing connections. If I recall, they locked larger pop servers when Heavensward launched only to open them again not too long after the expansion. If they actually do keep them locked, it'll stay that way for the entire duration of Stormblood because, once again, no one on those servers has any reason to leave. The housing gesture is a nice touch, I'll grant them that.

[SilkaN]

Does that mean we won't be able to deport skirt-wearing mancats to Balmung anymore?

[EssenceFlux]

Seems like a lot of EU players will have some stable homes, that\\'s nice. New servers with fresh open housing? Sounds real nice actually.

[Ultimatecalibur]

That is never going to happen. You think approximately 26,000 characters will relocate? What incentive do players on either of those servers have to transfer off? If Square actually wants to stabilize their populations, then make transfers off either of them free. Until they do, people aren't going to shell out $18, especially with pre-existing connections. If I recall, they locked larger pop servers when Heavensward launched only to open them again not too long after the expansion. If they actually do keep them locked, it'll stay that way for the entire duration of Stormblood because, once again, no one on those servers has any reason to leave.

Did you read the announcement? They are going to make transfers to certain low pop Worlds in all the datacenters free as well as giving various benefits for starting new characters on those low pop servers.

players who to transfer to or create new characters on designated Worlds across all data centers will receive special bonuses as described below.
* Pleased be advised the bonuses planned for implementation are subject to change.
Bonuses

Transfers to designated Worlds will be free of charge.
EXP bonuses will be applied to designated Worlds (up to level 60).
Gil and free play time will be awarded to newly created characters that reach a certain level on designated Worlds.
EXP bonuses will be applied to newly established Worlds (up to level 60).
Gil and free play time will be awarded to newly created characters that reach a certain level on newly established Worlds.

[LaylaTsarra]

Did you read the announcement? They are going to make transfers to certain low pop Worlds in all the datacenters free as well as giving various benefits for starting new characters on those low pop servers.

Doesn't that apply just to the EU though?

Relative to transfer from Gilga, I'll be transferring one of my alts to Siren from there because I want to get a house in Doma. That won't happen on Gilgamesh.