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

[Zojha]

I heard that this is what SE did for FFXI? Can you elaborate on that? Timeline/histories? Did Odin have more outages and problems etc?

I personally am as clueless as anyone else about that - I heard SE threatened with it (Not just Odin, but Bahamut as well), but when doing research in some old forums, I couldn't find any evidence that it did in fact happen.

They did do server merges one year later (2010) however.

That said: I kept the statement vague on purpose. If no split did happen, people would take it as joke on Zantetsuken. If one did happen, someone would be like #triggered and rant about it. Or so was the plan...

[Soupa]

As someone from a small/mid population server, where we sometimes hurt for new people, I've been hoping for something like these restrictions since mid-late 2.0. Why? people need to get away from big servers. It is not healthy for a community to all be stuffed into 1-2 major servers with a bunch of smaller ones just sort of laying around. I hate to be that guy but if these restrictions are so offensive to you because friends can't create a character or transfer in then move to a different server, ay look I solved the problem.

I get it you wanna RP with people but its exactly because its been designated as such that the RP communities are small or non-existent on other servers, maybe its time another Unoffical RP server was designated, who knows. I know I'm going to get shouted at into the far reaches of space for this but I hope these restrictions stay in place post 4.0 and beyond until enough people have left/quit on Balmung and Gilgamesh.

[Moonlite]

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Not sure about 11 only ever saw merges for me. But in vanilla WoW we had new server and split. But mainly it was big push because one you could take all your guild. Two the chance of skipping the que where get home at 5 clean up and have supper start playing around 6ish. Shadowsong saw the raiding guilds leave for the chance of no que. Nothing like raid night someone dcs and gets put in hour plus que, to end raid night.

[Kazrah]

That said: I kept the statement vague on purpose. If no split did happen, people would take it as joke on Zantetsuken. If one did happen, someone would be like #triggered and rant about it. Or so was the plan...

I vote that if they do split Balmung or Gligamesh that one of the resulting servers should be called Zantetsuken. That sounds like a server worth moving to.

[UnstablePersonality]

I think people fail to understand these servers have to be literally filling and since people seem so heart set on leaving "smaller" servers to go to the bigger ones and making literally almost every server seem smaller which only seem smaller cause people think bigger server will always mean better....when it doesn't, I doubt that's good for the game, So I think this decision is fine.

[HakuroDK]

Normally, I'm all for removing restrictions. In this case, as the devs are so desperate to balance server pop on all of the servers in the game to the point where they're actually handing out server-wide XP buffs, Gil, and FREE GAME TIME to everyone who plays on select low-pop servers on Stormblood's Launch, I have to say I am 100% against removing this restriction until the servers get balanced. It's like trying to squeeze 100,000 people into a convention hall. Like... it's not going to happen. There's only so much space.

[Lexia]

I vote that if they do split Balmung or Gligamesh that one of the resulting servers should be called Zantetsuken. That sounds like a server worth moving to.

Just using post as reference

If they were to split Balmung how would they decide who goes to which new server? I could just see the RP community having a fit over it cause their group or what not got split and sent to different different servers. I personally don't RP would that aspect of it wouldn't really matter to me.

[MomomiMomi]

If they were to split Balmung how would they decide who goes to which new server? I could just see the RP community having a fit over it cause their group or what not got split and sent to different different servers. I personally don't RP would that aspect of it wouldn't really matter to me.

If I remember correctly on FFXI, I don't remember if it was for a split, but they let people decide which of two servers they would go to. But they locked picking one server until the distribution on the other came to parity. So it was a constant change of lock/unlock.

[silverhope]

Cactuar server. one of the smaller pop and its not even close to dead
http://imgur.com/y504YAn for bigger image

[KuraiKiserogeru]

Keep the high pop servers locked.