Incentive to transfer must be increased

[Istede]

I don't care about the rewards or incentives. If they increased the gil limitation for transfers to non-preferred worlds I would consider transferring. I worry about the economies of the preferred worlds, and I think some of them will turn back into ghost towns after the hype dies down. It's a pain to sell my house on Balmung and then reinvest all of my gil into items to resell because the prices on tiny servers seem to all be in Zimbabwean dollars. At the same time if I moved to a mid-pop world where the prices are less crazy, I'd still have to turn my money into items to resell to get past the gil limitation.

Balmung is a bit too crowded for me whenever there's a new patch. Once we get a bit deeper in, though, it's really nice. I love seeing people out in the world. With all of the technical issues we've been having, I doubt that I will be able to pick up a new house or apartment in Shirogane. I fully expect to 90k upon entering the zone and then to sit in a 2 hour queue.

[Keridwyn]

It's a pain to sell my house on Balmung and then reinvest all of my gil into items to resell because the prices on tiny servers seem to all be in Zimbabwean dollars. At the same time if I moved to a mid-pop world where the prices are less crazy, I'd still have to turn my money into items to resell to get past the gil limitation.

You have more than 999,999,999 gil? Yeah please, stay where you are. We don't need that much inflation just yet....

[Voltyblast]

How about giving a free jumping potion? I might seriously think about leaving if I had a free potion from transferring.

If not then I'll gladly stay there...can't stay congested forever can it?

[BroodingFicus]

The thing is they addressed the problem too late. Everyone saw the train wreck that was Balmung coming a mile away aside from Square apparently. Its natural that years later people have put down substantial roots and aren't inclined to move just because its now free to do so. They've also yet to address Free Company movement and that is going to hold people up. FC housing was actually the only housing at first and at the moment it seems you'd pretty much have to give it all up and start from scratch. I can only speak for my friend and myself here, but we bought our FC house during the second wave of wards a long time ago which has given us plenty of time to spend more gil on it. The value of the whole thing, with all the rooms etc, is probably easily 10 times what we originally paid for the lot if not more so we aren't going anywhere without it. We've talked about what it would take for us to be willing to relocate and it would be:

A. Keeping the FC (points, level etc) in tact with all its members who wished to follow.
B. Free (Obviously)
C. Intact relocation of our house, furniture, and rooms to a new lot on the server.
D. Full transfer of our individual assets in gil.
E. Square designates a new RP server to guarantee we aren't relocating to a place where the RP community will die in six months.

That is the bear minimum for us as an RP FC. Anything extra just tips the scales in their favor but I'm not sure we'll see the first or second one come to be and certainly not the last. So at this point we're in for the long haul hoping the offer benefits those who can more easily jump ship without losing out on anything.

[Istede]

You have more than 999,999,999 gil? Yeah please, stay where you are. We don't need that much inflation just yet....

Not even close, just in the seven figure range. I figure that my money won't go nearly as far, based on what I have seen prices of everything are much, much higher than they are on Balmung.

[EmeraldSerenade]

The "Free Game Time" idea would motivate a larger number of players to leave Balmung. But, no-one's going to take that offer unless it's an absurd amount of Game Time. And at the end of the day, it's not unreasonable to expect them to do so. Balmung had a login queue before Stormbloods release. It's not the players fault that it takes 2-3 hours to login, it's the companies. They definitely anticipated that this would be an issue, but they acted far too late.

You might call this "Entitlement", but at the end of the day many of us have been on this server for years. Just packing your things then transferring away isn't that easy.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The "Free Game Time" idea would motivate a larger number of players to leave Balmung. But, no-one's going to take that offer unless it's an absurd amount of Game Time. And at the end of the day, it's not unreasonable to expect them to do so. Balmung had a login queue before Stormbloods release. It's not the players fault that it takes 2-3 hours to login, it's the companies. They definitely anticipated that this would be an issue, but the acted far too late.

You might call this "Entitlement", but at the end of the day many of us have been on this server for years. Just packing your things then transferring away isn't that easy.

I joined balmung in 2010. I left as soon as they opened transfers. Its not a matter of time, its a matter of want. Have friends? bring them with you. have 200+ friends? no you dont.

[Just-Communication]

Sounds like it's time for SE to host a Battle Royale. Turn on PVP across the server in all locations - those killed will have their characters transferred the following day. Bet some groups will even RP through it.

Friends will become enemies. Enemies will become friends.

Let the true side of human nature manifest itself in all shades of ugly.

It will be glorious.

[CrystalRainbow]

They need blaming-2 all server data shared. Same housing. When you log on you pick balmung 1 or 2
Kind of like what they did at the start of 3.x for some zones but server wide.

Chat works cross both balmungs and everytime you zone you get to pic server 1 or 2 or party leader picks if in different servers when party made.

[Keridwyn]

You might call this "Entitlement", but at the end of the day many of us have been on this server for years. Just packing your things then transferring away isn't that easy.

That's exactly what I call it because others who have been there for Years had no problem doing it. If you don't really want to leave then don't. Wait for SE to take more drastic action.

They need blaming-2 all server data shared. Same housing. When you log on you pick balmung 1 or 2
Kind of like what they did at the start of 3.x for some zones but server wide.

Chat works cross works and everytime you zone you get to pic server 1 or 2 or party leader picks if in different servers when party made.

So crazy that just might work....if they ever did it. Somehow I don't think SE could make that happen.