Quote Originally Posted by Lazaruz View Post
Once your population isnt in immediate risk of exceeding server capacity, they will.
It's as simple as that, especially since it took SE FAR too long to stop the ability to transfer in, one could make the argument Balmung even went beyond what would be considered stable numbers
This stance can lead to irreparable damage to their respective communities. Say both Balmung and Gilgamesh remain locked for another six months, bleeding enough players to finally unlock. By this point, many will have moved on and neither server recovers. Now Mateus, Cactuar and Leviathan are the top servers. Should everywhere who went there cross their fingers and desperately try to re-direct people to other servers for fear they'll get moved into congestion and suffer the same decline? Now you could possibly argue Balmung needs to stay locked a bit longer, but I'd prefer the devs stop taking the easy approach and offer better incentives for other servers.