When will the login restrictions be lifted?

[Elamys]

Just got 90k after waiting for 2 1/2 hours, now back in a 2.5k queue to log in.

Can't play, but I pay.

Thank you.

Same. Disconnected for a split second, immediately got back in, was already at the back of the line. Really glad I renewed my sub this month.

They just don't care.

[Colt47]

As a long time player on Balmung I'm actually considering moving off the server due to the queue times. This is going to potentially be repeated over and over as content gets released and new expansions come on the horizon unless SE does something really drastic. It really sucks that in order to play the game we are paying for we have to move from a server we've been a part of since the very start, but this is impossible to deal with under normal living conditions.

[LunaFaye]

Just don't make the mistake of transferring to a designated/new world, or you're running in the same exact issue. Well ok not as bad as with balmung and gilgamesh, however queue times are going up and down, specially on weekends on these servers as well. And on top of that, you get slapped with the 90 day transfer penalty, having some people still stuck in queue's of 1+ hour, or bad latency since they didn't check prior. I personally can say, even so I don't like Levi, I have a queue time from instant up to 5 minutes, mostly I am 15-45th in queue lol, meantime over on gilgamesh, I can't even log my alt in. Constant dc's or hours of waiting. Guess I try in a month or so.

[JunseiKei]

This thread:

SE: The stove is hot.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: *Puts hand on hot stove and cries.*
SE: We said it was hot. First aid is in the bathroom. Go take care of yourself. We need to cook.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: No! You hurt us, so you fix it!

[Roda]

Yes, because playing with my friends on the server I started on is totally self harm and SE taking money for people to get around character creation restrictions totally does not give them any responsibility in this.

[Aldeus]

This thread:

SE: The stove is hot.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: *Puts hand on hot stove and cries.*
SE: We said it was hot. First aid is in the bathroom. Go take care of yourself. We need to cook.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: No! You hurt us, so you fix it!

I'm not sure what the stove is in this analogy. Is it creating a character on the server? If so, I take full responsibility for creating a character in 2010 when the servers were dead. Had I only the foresight not to build a community of friends on Balmung! My hubris has ruined me!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

My community of friends moved. the ones who stayed we still do stuff with through party finder. if you say "but i have 100 friends and 8 linkshells with 128 people in them" well, thats your choice. I doubt you play with all of them on a daily basis. While you guys have all been "but my server" the rest of us have been playing the game.

[ExKage]

I'm not sure what the stove is in this analogy. Is it creating a character on the server? If so, I take full responsibility for creating a character in 2010 when the servers were dead. Had I only the foresight not to build a community of friends on Balmung! My hubris has ruined me!

Even when I started, the first day I started was Dec 1 2013 and there were no indications that Balmung was congested or would be until later in 2014. Sorry that I'd made friends with hundreds of people who were there since launch and when Balmung hadn't even existed yet.

[Berethos]

fixing healthy sized servers that already exist

Balmung is anything but "healthy sized."

As close to full as possible without being too far below or too far above - that is what a healthy sized server looks like. Stuffing something to the point of bursting does not make it a healthy anything.

[SOIYA]

My friend told me I chose the worst time in 2 years to start playing the game.
Forever locked out of cerb.