A humble request to Square Enix: please unlock Gilgamesh.

[Rokke]

As true as this is, you need to understand that enjoyment of this game is feeling related, so these complaints are still valid. If they aren't enjoying the game, then requesting change is valid. It is a game after all, it is meant to be enjoyed. It doesn't mean it will happen, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be asked about. It's also unfair to act as though the surveys are a representation of what is actually going on in these servers; just because people raidlog doesn't mean it is thriving.

So if I feel that Balmung isn't active enough I should petition to reopen it to new characters and transfers? Never mind the data that says its plenty active- if I don't have a log in queue every single time I log in, I feel the stagnation in real time.

What feelings are you talking about? The crashing economy isn't a feeling. The lack of new members and active players in various bits of content isn't a feeling. The inability to recruit for raiding FCs and casual FCs isn't a feeling. These are legitimate issues that Gilga has been suffering from for several months now. These locks are heavily damaging the communities, the dev team needs to find better ways to distribute the population. The locks are not a "necessary evil", they are a hamfisted way of handling a problem.

YOU ARE LITERALLY, THE THIRD MOST ACTIVE SERVER. You have 16k active characters. Recruit them. Sell to them. Talk to them.

Balmung and Gilgamesh were freakishly lopsided post lock. Again, this isn't a feeling, this is a fact. Sans locking, what else could they have done? Split the servers into reasonable sized midpops? Given us all a free house if we moved?

Slight tangent here, but just wondering. Do you guys on Balmung and Gilgamesh have RMT spammers?

No, I have never seen any in the 2 years Ive been here.

[Excaliburnina]

So if I feel that Balmung isn't active enough I should petition to reopen it to new characters and transfers? Never mind the data that says its plenty active- if I don't have a log in queue every single time I log in, I feel the stagnation in real time.

If it is impeding your enjoyment, it is plenty valid to do so. Expecting results is one thing, but simply trying for something you want to see change is really not a problem. Again, the data really doesn't tell you much aside from people log in; it doesn't mean they participate in much or stay logged in.

[Vrankyl]

YOU ARE LITERALLY, THE THIRD MOST ACTIVE SERVER. You have 16k active characters. Recruit them. Sell to them. Talk to them.

According to the most recent census this is false. Gilgamesh is the 6th largest server as of this point in time in the NA. Overall it is now the 12th largest server between both NA and EU. Granted that does not take away from the fact that there is still a sizable population on Gilgamesh, but it makes no sense for it to be locked when servers with larger populations aren't. Somehow only Balmung and Gilgamesh are Congested worlds, but there are four servers that aren't locked with larger populations. SE done screwed up.

[Theodric]

According to the most recent census this is false. Gilgamesh is the 6th largest server as of this point in time in the NA. Overall it is now the 12th largest server between both NA and EU. Granted that does not take away from the fact that there is still a sizable population on Gilgamesh, but it makes no sense for it to be locked when servers with larger populations aren't. Somehow only Balmung and Gilgamesh are Congested worlds, but there are four servers that aren't locked with larger populations. SE done screwed up.

It makes sense when you consider that for quite some time a lot of people have been pointing to Gilgamesh and Balmung and encouraging players to move there. Now, finally, other servers are starting to attract players. Mateus and Omega have become legitimate options for role-players, finally breaching Balmung's former dominance over such a niche.

[Rokke]

According to the most recent census this is false. Gilgamesh is the 6th largest server as of this point in time in the NA. Overall it is now the 12th largest server between both NA and EU. Granted that does not take away from the fact that there is still a sizable population on Gilgamesh, but it makes no sense for it to be locked when servers with larger populations aren't. Somehow only Balmung and Gilgamesh are Congested worlds, but there are four servers that aren't locked with larger populations. SE done screwed up.

YOU ARE LITERALLY, THE THIRD MOST ACTIVE SERVER.

Active =/= Size. Despite not being the 2nd biggest server anymore, they've still one of the most active populations. In that same vein, the overall number of characters on Balmung isn’t the highest, its it’s active player count thats crazy huge.

I fully agree that the servers that have overtaken it should be locked too (Levi especially), though. If SE wants to balance the populations, they've got to be more consistent :c

[Ashyl_Frost]

I also vote for Gilgamesh to be unlocked. The lock out at this point is feeling like prison honestly. I actually transferred to Gilgamesh before the lock out happened, and when i was new here it was a large thriving community. Now it's just a ghost town in comparison, with no new players or friends to join us, along with the Server slowly bleeding active players over time.