Quote Originally Posted by Noahlimits View Post
They weren't permalocked before. You were able to make a new character just after maintenance every week for a good 10-15 minutes.
That was true at first, but hasn't been for a long time now. People were able to snipe maintenance in that small window, but after awhile that dried up. People that camped those maintenances still failed. It's been a long, long time since anyone's been able to make a new toon/alt on Balmung. After awhile people gave up, made the characters on other servers and just paid for the transfers.

That wasn't the point of my post. My point was simply, having the servers locked to new characters, but open to transfers made SE a lot of $$$. If their currently locked servers were capable of supporting more characters, you better believe SE would go right back to that. The fact that they have not says something.