Incentive to transfer must be increased

[Voltyblast]

Me: Goes to Omega since Balmung is still congested with 1200+ players -> ends up in another congestion with 1200 players as well.

Way to to encourage transfers: even the new server is now clogged and I don't wanna know the others. I initially had some thoughts on wantinv to move but this literally killed my initial excitement and what little of it I had.

I really regret purchasing the expansion on launch...

[Lexia]

Queue times will go down, if person only transferring cause of queue times then probably a bad reason to transfer cause give it a month and the patch subbers will be gone.

[Darus]

Okay? Then you must not really care too much about the queue times then huh? Who has more of a reason to stay somewhere literally means jack nothing in the sense of MMO servers.

Not nearly as much as I care about doing right by my FC members. I know you don't get it, but MMOs are about forming community and friends to take on challenges together. Not server hopping to find raid groups on a whim or abandoning what you've built up. I play other games while in queue, and though I want it to go away, I have patience and know it'll go away soon. You don't get why we stick by our communities on our server? Fine. I don't get how people with impersonal attitudes even touch MMOs.

[Maku]

Hardware has limits. Servers = hardware = have limits. SE is doing everything they can to make Balmung and other congested servers better, all be it he AFK workarounds do need to be addressed in some way.

They are offering incentives, if you say they are not enough then clearly you care more about Balmung than you can about a 4hr que and should stop complaining as you made your choice and you chose the que. They gave you an option and you didn't take it for one reason or another. That isn't SE's fault, they don't NEED to offer you anything else.

The argument about naming Balmung an official RP server so that non-RPs could transfer off is simply illogical. Even though it is unofficially the RP server, non-RPs are not transferring off due to not being RPers and stating Balmung as an offical RP would not change that in any way.

Bottom line is SE offered, you all chose to stay. It is now on you not SE.

On a side-note, please stay on Balmung I don't want me new awesome server being congested and over inflated with all of Balmung's millions of gil.

[Marluxia]

Hardware has limits. Servers = hardware = have limits. SE is doing everything they can to make Balmung and other congested servers better, all be it he AFK workarounds do need to be addressed in some way.

They could always implement the RP-designated server that people have been asking for since 2011.

[Maku]

They could always implement the RP-designated server that people have been asking for since 2011.

How do you think this would solve any of the problems? If you designated an RP server not only would potentially most all of Balmung transfer but so would RPers from EVERY OTHER SERVER. Most the people complaining about congestion are probably RPers with 8 different characters that they switch between to play different stories out anyway. You are just going to create an instantly congested server and everyone is going to keep complaining.

[Kyt]

Not nearly as much as I care about doing right by my FC members. I know you don't get it, but MMOs are about forming community and friends to take on challenges together. Not server hopping to find raid groups on a whim or abandoning what you've built up.Fine. I don't get how people with impersonal attitudes even touch MMOs.

Then you have zero right to complain. None of anything you just said in your comments means ANYTHING other than the very first sentence. All you care about is you and your friends. That selfish attitude is the reason why Balmung is the way it is. I've played MMO's for 15 years and have been in a total of 3(4 now since I made one on Omega) guild/linkshells/free companies in that time span. How about you don't generalize people that you know absolutely nothing about and worry about actually becoming part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

[Marluxia]

How do you think this would solve any of the problems? If you designated an RP server not only would potentially most all of Balmung transfer but so would RPers from EVERY OTHER SERVER. Most the people complaining about congestion are probably RPers with 8 different characters that they switch between to play different stories out anyway. You are just going to create an instantly congested server and everyone is going to keep complaining.

It would solve the problem, because the problem is the lack of stratification between non-RPers and RPers, a problem which existed since Besaid and Fabul were merged to create Balmung. If the RP server is full of RPers, then it becomes a community problem that is not on SE to solve. That's not the case right now.

[Skivvy]

They are offering incentives, if you say they are not enough then clearly you care more about Balmung than you can about a 4hr que and should stop complaining as you made your choice and you chose the que. They gave you an option and you didn't take it for one reason or another. That isn't SE's fault, they don't NEED to offer you anything else.

People's logic is just insane. I'm glad that so many people can just uproot themselves from a server they've been on for years, but some of us are finding it a bit more difficult. I was merged onto Balmung at launch, and I'm not personally a fan of server hopping unless there is good reason.

This is most definitely still on SE. They allowed server transfers even after they locked the servers because, hey, money is too good to pass up! They then toss out a not-so-great deal, and we're all supposed to be thrilled and immediately jump ship? People are leaving behind FCs, houses, communities, a flourishing market (this should NOT be understated) - and for what? Some feathers, and a shorter queue (which will be gone in a few weeks anyway).

For what it's worth, I'm fine with the queue. It's a launch, this is what happens. However, blaming the players instead of SE is absolutely wrong.

[Teryaani]

How do you think this would solve any of the problems? If you designated an RP server not only would potentially most all of Balmung transfer but so would RPers from EVERY OTHER SERVER. Most the people complaining about congestion are probably RPers with 8 different characters that they switch between to play different stories out anyway. You are just going to create an instantly congested server and everyone is going to keep complaining.

Their best bet is to denote two servers per DC, both low pop....and then deal with the fact that one of them will ultimately become the favorite and the problem will still exist. But that would give them the best odds in addition to what they're doing with the incentive program.

I can't see them doing this though.