Transfer Restrictions and Roleplayers

[savageink]

I don't think that's really fair when Balmung was completely open to transfers for the past four years since ARR was launched, making the character creation restriction seem arbitrary. If anything, it seemed that Square Enix prioritised revenue from transfers over population stability and now it's biting everyone involved.

I find it disingenuous to blame Squeenix for people who purposely transferred into a server known to be overpopulated for years. The fee was obviously there to discourage transfer. Imagine the yelling if they had locked it down 2 years ago or longer? ...probably pretty similar to now. I really have little sympathy for people who actually paid for a lesser degree of stability.

[reiichi]

I find it disingenuous to blame Squeenix for people who purposely transferred into a server known to be overpopulated for years. The fee was obviously there to discourage transfer. Imagine the yelling if they had locked it down 2 years ago or longer? ...probably pretty similar to now. I really have little sympathy for people who actually paid for a lesser degree of stability.

Had SE disabled it like the lodestone posts about character creation seemed to imply, I don't think we'd be running into this issue here and now. While I never had issues getting into Balmung as a legacy character, a number of my friends did have to do the silly "wake up at 3am and hope enough people logged out for creation to be open" thing to get in. ...and then it hit the point of "you have to transfer in if we want to play together." Now, that's not too big of a deal if we're just doing PVE content. A cross-world party in the same datacenter fixes that. ...but for RPers, it doesn't really work out as well. We can't all just RP in dungeons or something for a large event. (Since even if that was viable, it's 4 or 8 people at best. One of the longest running events on Balmung that happens every week averages around 70 people, and it's spiked up higher. And gone anywhere from 3-8 hours.)

[Acilith]

I find it disingenuous to blame Squeenix for people who purposely transferred into a server known to be overpopulated for years. The fee was obviously there to discourage transfer. Imagine the yelling if they had locked it down 2 years ago or longer? ...probably pretty similar to now. I really have little sympathy for people who actually paid for a lesser degree of stability.

Server's not that unstable actually. A few times it has gone down on its own because of the sheer amount of people, but for the most part it's fine. I am kind of surprised they don't merge all the baby servers together to make one or two large servers like Balmung just because running around in a MMO absolutely alone is.. sad.

[MomomiMomi]

Server's not that unstable actually. A few times it has gone down on its own because of the sheer amount of people, but for the most part it's fine. I am kind of surprised they don't merge all the baby servers together to make one or two large servers like Balmung just because running around in a MMO absolutely alone is.. sad.

No. Server merges are terrible.

[savageink]

Server's not that unstable actually. A few times it has gone down on its own because of the sheer amount of people, but for the most part it's fine. I am kind of surprised they don't merge all the baby servers together to make one or two large servers like Balmung just because running around in a MMO absolutely alone is.. sad.

I have alts on Gilgamesh. I never transfer, I just make a new character when I switch servers. Peak time in town is like swimming through tar from the lag... I don't play them much, usually late at night. I really don't know how people stand it on their mains on a regular basis. And during expansion launch? Forget it. So, yeah. I am fully aware of the server issues whether people who deal with them every time they log in do, is another question.

And no, smaller servers aren't empty. Some more than others at 3 am but whatever.

[Hasrat]

running around in a MMO absolutely alone is.. sad.

What's not sad is being able to play without lag spikes from all the AFKs or whatever. Small servers are probably a great boon to players with sub-optimal machines. I know I can feel mine chug just a little bit harder when big hunts draw in a crowd. I'd hate trying to play if that was normal everywhere all the time. (plus being able to actually get to/participate in hunts)

I've also heard old stories of certain enemies being constantly farmed for materials (such as Diremite) causing some frustration among players struggling to compete. Idunno if that was ever a thing in early HW or whatever, but I'd consider it a potential/minor benefit to staying small.

[Velynea]

I find it disingenuous to blame Squeenix for people who purposely transferred into a server known to be overpopulated for years. The fee was obviously there to discourage transfer. Imagine the yelling if they had locked it down 2 years ago or longer? ...probably pretty similar to now. I really have little sympathy for people who actually paid for a lesser degree of stability.

Uhm. No. Square Enix has the responsibility for this. Not the player base. It is rather entitled and arrogant you try to blame people for this. Don't try to shift the blame on the community. It makes you look extremely dim-witted and uninformed. Square Enix are the ones who hold the end responsibility. Not their customers.

[savageink]

Uhm. No. Square Enix has the responsibility for this. Not the player base. It is rather entitled and arrogant you try to blame people for this. Don't try to shift the blame on the community. It makes you look extremely dim-witted and uninformed. Square Enix are the ones who hold the end responsibility. Not their customers.

Actually, you come across as one of the most entitled people in this thread. You see the writing on the wall but for some reason refuse to believe that it applies to you.

[MomomiMomi]

Uhm. No. Square Enix has the responsibility for this. Not the player base. It is rather entitled and arrogant you try to blame people for this. Don't try to shift the blame on the community. It makes you look extremely dim-witted and uninformed. Square Enix are the ones who hold the end responsibility. Not their customers.

Funny coming from someone who wants everyone to go onto a single server instead of spreading out.

[Velynea]

Actually, you come across as one of the most entitled people in this thread. You see the writing on the wall but for some reason refuse to believe that it applies to you.

And you are entitled to have that opinion. By all means, continue to make yourself look like an abhorrent, uninformed dolt with zero sympathy towards people who happen to enjoy another aspect of a game.

Darn those raiders as well on Gilgamesh. Shouldn't have transferred there to play with their friends. They knew how full it was after all! Gosh, lets just ignore those people who have a desire to play with their friends. They should just start over on a new server, problem solved? Right? Oh their community they enjoy? Nah, clearly they need to sacrifice that. - Did that perhaps make it easier for you to understand our situation, of are you continue to stay that dense?

Funny coming from someone who wants everyone to go onto a single server instead of spreading out.

Laughable from someone who does not appear to wish to understand, despite several roleplayers having tried to explain our situation. Roleplayers, beyond a handful of individuals, like to stick in sizeable groups. We tried to explain this several times over and over now. Alas, intelligence is a rare trait to be found in some people, but cherry picking posts is something a trait you can pride yourself onto though.