Quote Originally Posted by Foofy View Post
See, that is where my confusion is. Where are people saying it is 'INDEFINITELY' closed? SE didn't say that. They said it was 'Transfers to the following Worlds will be suspended until their active player populations have stabilized.'
In my interpretation of SE's words, this is basically the same as the character creation lockouts. Basically, there are too many connections to Balmung at any point in time that it's hazardous to the server health and overall gameplay experience. Especially in a new data center with new (probably) servers that haven't been fine-tuned to the game perfectly. Given that Balmung has been placed into this status in a content lull where most of the come-and-go players aren't currently subscribed, the population will spike up even higher once 4.0 releases and the people who haven't subbed come back.


So yes, it's technically "temporary" but it could take months or possibly years for Balmung's population to naturally decrease to a point that it'd be opened up again. And in the meantime, that still wouldn't answer "where should people go if they want to RP in FFXIV?"