Balmung has been locked half a year. Enough is enough please.

[Skivvy]

There's nothing wrong with playing with friends that's what the cross-realm friend list is for to be able to play with them. Sadly enough questing with friends doesn't always work out especially when there's an instanced part. Because of that it's probably best to just worry about the grouping to do df with friends.
Also, if players really want to play with their friends then they'd go to a realm that they can all play instead of just telling the other guy to go to the over populated realm that's closed down. It works both ways.

Obviously everyone plays differently, but simply talking to friends via /tell or running instances with them isn't quite the same as just BSing with them "in person". A huge portion of my time in game is just spent being stupid with friends in town, BSing, or running around and other things that can't be done when not on the same server. It would be amazing if SE could figure out a way to create a megaserver, like in GW2, but I don't see that happening any time soon. The cross-world DF and /tells system is definitely a huge step in the right direction, but it's still lacking.

Of course people have the option to move to a new server if they want to play with friends, but that does not address the underlying issue that only SE can resolve.

One of my friends that has an alt on Balmung said last week that he needed to repair his gear before raid, and he couldn't zone out of his FC house to do so for a minute or two because it was too congested outside. Eventually he had to teleport to some out of the way settlement like the one in Outer La Noscea.

Balmung is clearly not ready to be re-opened if that is still happening.

We do still on occasion get the message saying we can't enter our house/apartment, but you normally get in on the next try. It was an absolute nightmare on SB launch with people hiding out in their homes to avoid the AFK timer. lol. But yeah, with the current server/datacenter situation, I would agree that Balmung needs to stay locked.