Quote Originally Posted by NanaWiloh View Post
A realm can have the highest activity but does not mean it has the highest population.
Yes. And in their lodestone surveys, people have counted INACTIVE characters as well and I've just told you that in terms of population, Balmung actually has a very small population. In fact, it has THE SMALLEST total population. Zalera has twice as many characters. At the same time, Zalera has (or had) the least amount of active characters (among NA realms), because most of them are dead toons, banned RMT accounts, dead trial accounts etc.
IF your theory held merit and they'd look at the total population, they'd lock Zalera but not Balmung. That's ridiculous. Only active characters that actually strain the servers by logging in count.