So about the realm transfer restrictions..

[Bourne_Endeavor]

The complete server locks have never been done before, so we don't have any prior experiences to go off. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are also locked for 90 days after a transfer. Regardless, Balmung probably won't open for a couple months-- possibly longer.

Idk why you guys are saying it would take years for balmung to open. We've had non-queue queues during the most peak of times, and no instabilities during times of high traffic (well no non-ddos instabilities). I'm sure that they could take off the hard lock on the server now and we would be fine since I'm fairly sure the community has learned its lesson by now.

Learn what lesson? It isn't the playerbase's fault SE allowed transfers to a supposedly overflowing server and happily collected $18 each time. Frankly, the cynic in me thinks they will open up Balmung and Gilgamesh within a couple months just to collect more money from the inevitable transfers back.