Quote Originally Posted by PerkPrincess View Post
No of course not. But it would help alleviate server constraints from there on, because then new players could actually go to where they want to, without having to consort to paying for transfers to get onto closed servers.

It's basic future proofing.

And it would help Balmung and Gilgamesh, far more than just locking them down permanently.
Except the community set other servers as RP servers, and that did not help much either. People interested in RP go to RP sites, where all of this is laid out.