Petition to Terminate Restrictions on Transfer to “High Population” Servers

[Oaken]

I thought the restrictions were implied to be temporary. With 4.0 right around the corner I can see why they locked it- give the other servers a pop boost.

The solution should not be to boost the populations of dead servers (which will remain sparse and dead -- see post above for detrimental effects), but to merge small population servers and devote resources to sustain high population servers. SE has the assets to do this, and if they do not, should simply raise subscription prices.

[Oaken]

Login queues are not unfounded during early access and launch periods. I have a Gilgamesh toon.

The swamps need to be drained. It's much easier cause we have XPF now, more incentives coming, along with more cross-server features like friends lists coming in 4.0.

Login queues are unfounded (and have rarely ever exceeded 5 or 10 minutes, tops). Expanded party finder and cross-server features do not supplement or replace actual in-game communities and open-world interactions with players. Instead, they encourage people to turtle and not network with other players to form meaningful relationships.

[Iromi]

Where is the petition to ensure this policy does not change?

Sign me up for this! If SE also would make some designated RP servers, it would help to fix this issue too a bit.

[Moonlite]

I thought the restrictions were implied to be temporary. With 4.0 right around the corner I can see why they locked it- give the other servers a pop boost.

Has some vague speak about evening out. With new bonuses getting people to move. Servers listed as problem ones from EU have half the population. How long you think its going to take to even out half the population. Also remember the population numbers are unofficial and the last one came during a down time for Balmung.

All seasonal events are pure hell shows on Balmung for a long period of time. Hunts. Basically any content that requires game play that isn't instanced. How do you plan to fix that? Also Idylshire and Mor Dhona can be extreme issues for some. How you going to fix that?

If you have real solutions for limited resources, open world game play issue, and lag from a game designed around loading into small zones. Hell pack them on. But until that is fixed lock her tighter than a server you can't get onto

[Istaru]

I challenge anyone who actually wants this policy to remain in place to cite, with specific examples, how the high population of a server has adversely impacted your gameplay. In my two years on Balmung, the only time I /ever/ recall the population causing a problem was when new housing wards were released. The amount of speculation, fear-mongering about "monster queues," and other unfounded, speculative concerns about population woes are completely baseless and exaggerated.

The fact that we have 2 bloated behemoths on Aether gave me and many people on *OUR* data center fits during HW launch. It was a hassle to login every day.

Judging by your join date, you may have been lucky enough to miss that party.

If Aether and Primal were a little better balanced, that might not be such an issue.

You wanted an example of how I was personally affected.

You have my example. Will you end you hissy fit now?

[Driavna]

I challenge anyone who actually wants this policy to remain in place to cite, with specific examples, how the high population of a server has adversely impacted your gameplay. In my two years on Balmung, the only time I /ever/ recall the population causing a problem was when new housing wards were released. The amount of speculation, fear-mongering about "monster queues," and other unfounded, speculative concerns about population woes are completely baseless and exaggerated.

An expansion is coming and the server will be more packed than usual during the first month or so. Tell me, you want to arrive one night, turn the PC and hit hours long que, probably not being available to play that day and being forced to keep your char log in to avoid that problem? (making que worse in the process for everyone else?) For real, at times people is so short sighted that hurt my feeling (and I don't have those anymore).

[Oaken]

Sign me up for this! If SE also would make some designated RP servers, it would help to fix this issue too a bit.

Small server populations are a detriment to the long-term health of the game. Unfortunately, designated RP servers (which I support) would not alleviate SE's self-professed population problems on any server but Balmung. The real solution is to convince SE that subscribers desire well populated servers with healthy player populations, and that supporting high population servers will increase subscriber retention in the long run.

As with most things, less servers is more.

[Oaken]

An expansion is coming and the server will be more packed than usual during the first month or so. Tell me, you want to arrive one night, turn the PC and hit hours long que, probably not being available to play that day and being forced to keep your char log in to avoid that problem? (making que worse in the process for everyone else?) For real, at times people is so short sighted that hurt my feeling (and I don't have those anymore).

If this is a real threat, SE should address it by allocating resources to sustain high population servers during stress. Quite frankly, I'd rather sit in long queues than face the risk of FFXIV being fragments across 15 servers, having no sense of community whatsoever, and then dying a slow, sad death over the next two years.

[Oaken]

The fact that we have 2 bloated behemoths on Aether gave me and many people on *OUR* data center fits during HW launch. It was a hassle to login every day.

Judging by your join date, you may have been lucky enough to miss that party.

If Aether and Primal were a little better balanced, that might not be such an issue.

You wanted an example of how I was personally affected.

You have my example. Will you end you hissy fit now?

It is strange how many players were not impacted by these alleged long-queue times. And honestly, it is far more desirable to wait in queue (which can be fixed by allocating more resources to server infrastructure instead of prohibiting new players from joining the server of their choice), than to play on dead, under-populated servers where there is no community or long-term interest in the game.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I challenge anyone who actually wants this policy to remain in place to cite, with specific examples, how the high population of a server has adversely impacted your gameplay. In my two years on Balmung, the only time I /ever/ recall the population causing a problem was when new housing wards were released. The amount of speculation, fear-mongering about "monster queues," and other unfounded, speculative concerns about population woes are completely baseless and exaggerated.

If you joined after the launch of 3.0, you have no idea. Aether was down for days due to the lobby server crashing due to population limits reached because of balmung and gilgamesh both residing on it.