A humble request to Square Enix: please unlock Gilgamesh.

[Jas710]

They block incoming new players. Population stagnates. Some decide to leave. Population drops. Server reopens. Population fills up again. Rinse repeat. It's a mess, but what else can really be done about it except what SE has tried so far, with the "preferred" thing, etc. They can't be closing/reopening servers all the time, as it doesn't really solve anything.

Maybe they can try to break new ground with the cross-server features. Like if it's a social thing, make cross-server FCs a thing, or create instanced virtual idling zones where it seems like they are in the same space. Ideas that would make being on different servers a non-issue, while expanding the community.

As long as individual servers exist, there will always be some servers busier than others.