How long until transfers to the big servers return?

[Paladinleeds]

I'll ignore the attempt at making it personal.

That's not what I'm hinting at, people need an anchor to keep them in the game, take that away and they'll just drift away. Very few people look at a MMORPG and think ''I'll hop into that to make friends'' their friend invites them to play it with them and that's how they make your ''new connections''

I can count the people I know that joined a MMO alone on one hand. There's always someone they follow or join with.

However for the sake of the game's health long-run we might need to say to those friends of Balmung/Gilga players "Alright, either start on a server without your friend, get your friend to move with you, or don't play at all", and leave it at that ulimatum. The fact they've stopped transfers to that server which gave them a decent chunk of change means the server is (most likely) on the brink of collapse. Else why would they shut off that revenue source? The ultimatum sucks, but it seems it was required.