Forcefully move people out of Balmung (and other insanely congested worlds)

[Zojha]

SE was obviously fine beforehand with the servers state considering they kept the transfers open and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if they open it up again at 4.1 even though I think it's a stupid idea server transfers is easy profit for SE.

Well... that looks like a decent business plan.

Lock character creation but allow transfers, then ever so often try to get people off, open transfers again, later try to get people off again, then allow transfers again...

Genius from a business point of view - at least, as long as the customers are playing along.

[Firesped]

I hope that SE has been working on a free company housing transfer system, It seems like that will be part of the new housing in Kugane. When people can take their FC housing with them is when this will be solved. There is stuff you can't get back if you use the current system. rare crafted items attached to the FC and housing. time invested in all the parts.

The ultimate solution would be to split the server into new ones. people would have a windows of time to pick which server they want to goto. only the people on balmung could goto the new worlds for balmung.

or better yet, new sub balmung worlds. when players go to login to Balmung, they would have to pick which sub world to be transfered too. balmung itself would be in a holding state for transfers to these new sub worlds. all their stuff would transfer to the new sub world where it was before.

[Derio]

Simply split the server into 2. Create 2 new worlds and in 1 week have everyone choose between the 2. Whichever world fills up the fastest the rest will go to the other world.

[Lexia]

SE would need to figure out how to transfer a player's house with them instead of just losing it and refunding gil. Pretty sure this is a big reason for most that own a house that keep them from transferring.

[Driavna]

Simply split the server into 2. Create 2 new worlds and in 1 week have everyone choose between the 2. Whichever world fills up the fastest the rest will go to the other world.

SE already plan to add more cross realm features (FC, LS and perhaps even a shared market for "small" servers). If they do that the reasons to play in a massive server will no longer be valid and in fact you will be hurting yourself. To me is the best solution long term.

Anything else is a temporal measure, even if they "kill" Balmung people could create a new one in a few months, they almost did just that with Omega.

[Eifahlwyn]

I hope they can introduce the cross realm zones anyway . I love it in WoW.

I respectfully but strongly disagree. CRZ was one of the worst features ever implemented into WoW imo. It was a buggy mess Blizz threw together because they did not want to merge the nearly hundred of dead servers and it failed massively (eventually resorting to their "connected realm" which were merges in everything but name.) It only punished those on lower pop servers while giving them none of the benefits of higher pop ones.

Furthermore, there are many players who deliberately choose lower populated servers because they don't want the world to be filled to the brim with other people running around, especially if they can't meaningfully interact with them. I'm all for SE continuing with features like cross world PF but cross world zones would be awful. One of the many reasons I quit WoW was because of CRZ.

[DaikiKiyoshi]

A free option we simply don't want. There is no incentive for us to transfer right now. Log in queues? Whatever. I'd rather deal with them than lose my house. Forcing people from Balmung and Gilgamesh to random servers is a phenomenal way to lose subscribers. And what, do you think people will just stay put? They'll pick a server and you'll see a mass move to those servers. Congratulations, now Sargatanas is over 20k and Cactuar is right behind it. What now? Going to lock people in place for six months? That's a fantastic way to guarantee they'll quit the game entirely. Considering Balmung and Gilgamesh outnumber multiple other servers combined. You probably don't want to piss off that many players.

One of the incentives (unless I'm mistaken) is that you are refunded the entire amount of Gil for your house plus an additional 3 million for unremoveable furnishings. Just buy a new house.

[Zojha]

Just buy a new house.

Now, if only there was an unlimited amount of plots...

[Bleam]

People are funny.

Stop blaming each other and blame the company. It's their game, their servers, and OUR money.

Offering players incentives to leave is a good start, but in no way can they make it mandatory for them to do so. This isn't Nazi Germany. It's like offering a lump sum of money for someone to move out of their family house that has been there for generations in order to put up a fast food restaurant and then getting upset when they refuse.

They know how many players are on their servers and they know how many people bought the expansion.

The point is quit bickering with each other and stand United to the company that is at fault here.

[RyuujinZERO]

They did. They decided Mateus, and a good chunk transferred to the server, and STILL transferring there. Last I heard, Mateus no longer has housing because of it as well.

That's a load of garbage, there's tonnes of open plots on Mateus still (My ward alone in the Goblet has 5 open spaces), and the apartment housing is barely even touched.

On a side note, a lot of us Balmung residents who've swapped server get a tonne of hostility off the 'natives' ("Balmung turds go home" "Stop shitting up our server" etc), which is something else to think about. People seem to want players to move away from Balmung, but nobody wants those players on their server