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

[dice137]

As an RPer and fellow Balmung player, I just wanted to state something to non-RPers for the record.

Please do not assume all or most RPers agree with this "petition". Currently, the majority of our community is actually in the middle of having talks about lower pop servers to establish another RP base in (specifically talks about if and when). This might be obvious information to some of you, but to those who have a tendency to cast a net far too wide, I don't want you to be under the impression that all of us throw temper tantrums of this nature. Careful, thought out, and mature steps are being taken to address the concerns this new policy has brought to light.

We're not all misguided, entitled fanatics like the OP.

Thank you.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

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.

Have you thought that maybe the reason you haven't seen problems is because SE has kept servers like Balmung restricted?

Now certain servers are reaching their limit SE is putting tighter restrictions on them.

[Kazrah]

Won't someone think of us EU players for once?

EU datacenter gets two new servers with free transfers, leveling bonuses for under 60, full housing compensation and even assistance to FC's willing to make the move. That's a pretty good deal I'd think.

[SilkaN]

EU datacenter gets two new servers with free transfers, leveling bonuses for under 60, full housing compensation and even assistance to FC's willing to make the move. That's a pretty good deal I'd think.

I don't want new servers, I want threads like these to be created while I am still motivated enough to post!

[Masekase_Hurricane]

EU datacenter gets two new servers with free transfers, leveling bonuses for under 60, full housing compensation and even assistance to FC's willing to make the move. That's a pretty good deal I'd think.

I think you totally misread their post. lol

[Arutan]

Didn't even read, SE is kind enough to allow those transfer since the beginning. Any other game would just have a max population and if the server is full no creation or transfer would ever be possible until it get some free space regulating the population to other servers, and that's the problem here, too many server are "dead" because people gather where everyone is.

[LalaRu]

/notsigned

Why others must be adapting to your server of choose? You can move too, of course.

[SaitoHikari]

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.

They did exactly this already in FFXIV Korea earlier this year. It backfired. Hard.

For those who aren't aware, FFXIV Korea merged their servers, and they did it poorly. The game's infrastructure does not accommodate for server merging at all - for some reason, they were unable to increase the amount of housing wards, so when they merged two servers together, one server had houses from half of their wards wiped to make room for half of the other server's wards, and the other server had the other half wiped to make room for the other server's half that didn't. Those who lost their houses were compensated, but very, very poorly at that. And that's only the most visible effect of how badly the server merge backfired on a community level. The PERCEPTION of the merge even happening in the first place is another topic entirely, which could be summed up as 'oh, this game had a server merge, that means it's going to die soon, so it's not worth jumping into this game now or ever', which is REALLY bad considering this is Korea we're talking about here.

Sure, you could argue that SE could have not done it in such a messy way, but do not think for a second that you know any better than the devs do on these types of issues, unless you are going to volunteer to code the server merge yourself.

Your arguments throughout this thread also read like you want SE to shift responsibility off of Balmung's community, of which all of its issues were created by its own damn community in the first place, and blame the players of the low populated servers for failing to find ways to attract people to come and stay. Whatever they've already attempted on their own clearly hasn't worked, especially with people from your server working overtime to convince prospective new players that being in such a server like Balmung is the only way to play the game. This post is especially vile to me, because the mere suggestion of a server merge reads like a punishment for the low populated servers (especially since you've somehow already convinced yourself that this current plan will fail and the servers will remain dead).

[MomomiMomi]

Balmung is gonna build a wall. And Behemoth is going to pay for it.

We're not paying for that f***ing wall.

[NanaWiloh]

To those mentioning merging realms...tell me you willing too deal with the lynch mob of players who will be looking for you cause they or their FC lost their player homes??? If your a fan of pulling the rug from under the feet of people standing on it go for it.