Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Unlikely, but its possible. Would explain the constant locking of several servers, and the extreme locking of Balmung and Gilgamesh.
They have upgraded infrastructure at least 5-6 times since that post, hence why Balmung has been able to host over 20k players according to player census.

Player census might be unreliable in telling the total number of players, but its not unreliable at all in telling a minimum number of active players, meaning that if you take the marging of error of player census Balmung could be close to the 30k players now.