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

[Oaken]

You can petition all you want, but on games like this, it's not a democracy.

This will be wasted breath, but:

No matter the game, every server has limits. Once those servers start hitting limits, companies start accommodating with extra servers or forcing players to start spreading out if it's namely in a couple of spots (this would be Aether's Gilgamesh and Balmung).

Again, these are relatively minor disruptions to gameplay and impact a handful of hardcore PVE players. These minor disruptions pale in comparison to the very real threat of fragmenting the FFXIV community across many small servers and turning the game into a quasi-single player experience, which will cause subscribers to lose interest.

SE could support high population servers or implement actions similar to those discussed in the OP to mitigate population problems.