A humble request to Square Enix: please unlock Gilgamesh.

[NanaWiloh]

I am not on Gilgamesh and for sure not supporting the lock out. But its clear that SE is not happy with where the active server population is and until they are Gilgamesh will stay locked. Lastly just cause you dont see tons of active people does not mean things are OK!!!

[OliverB]

If the house is full, no matter how much you want to have your friends living with you there is just no room. The locks are in place because they've reached capacity or estimated capacity, not because they think "dang, theres not enough people on these other servers". While I fully support blablabla

Please define "estimated capacity" for me, because it only points out that you have idea what you are talking. SE knows what their server capacity is. Period.

I've most likely AFK'd in this game longer than you've played. I have 3 active service accounts and unless my internet or the servers are down, I have a character in Limsa Lominsa at all time. You say the server is full, I say there are messages on my chat window that have been there since Monday. I've seen up to 2 days plenty of times, but this is on a whole new level. And no, the players haven't simply moved elsewhere. Shirogane is just as dead compared to what it used to be.

[OliverB]

Despite how many players have been online at the release of Stormblood on Gilgamesh, the server has never had instance/zone crashes, unlike on Heavensward release. So it's pretty funny to me when someone like you claims that the server is full when I haven't seen 3 instances of the same zone, to accomodate the overwhelming amount of players, in months. Aside from the Shirogane housing districts release, you don't have to wait in queue anymore when you log on. Which wasn't the case around 3.4+, where you had to wait a few minutes everyday during prime time.

[OliverB]

From our server's perspective, cross-world party finder was completely useless until the server lock. We didn't need other players to start joining our PFs for endgame content, because we already had so many people. Why deal with people you've never even heard of from another server when there's already linkshells filled with reliable/good players right in your backyard? Even prior to/shortly after the release of stormblood, I didn't see a lot of serious gilgamesh groups who were down with fragmenting their team. You either came to the server by transferring in or you stayed on your server. SE has effectively broken the cycle by preventing anyone from getting in. GG

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Yeah yeah

[Coatl]

6 PM Primetime Gridania - https://i.imgur.com/p2GSzKT.jpg
6 PM Primetime Kugane - 1. https://i.imgur.com/2r6ONjj.jpg 2. https://i.imgur.com/z1cXsFy.jpg

Compare them to previous screenshots I posted.

And this is Levi:
https://gyazo.com/166624719bf04f98605c3749a55eaca3

And Leviathan is supposedly one of the most active servers. Thing is, all servers are small in comparison to Balmung. The servers just aren't big enough to support a bustling community.

[Krotoan]

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Yeah yeah

Helpful tip: editing your post afterwards removes any sort of character limit. So write post, copy the excess to clipboard , edit.. and poof! Full post in one entry.
That being said: woah woah woah ! Little defensive there.
Estimated Capacity: how many concurrent active players a server and it's supporting network infrastructure can handle. Because unless you actually add person by person till it breaks, then repeat that failure with the same count OVER AND OVER you cannot say exactly how many people it can handle. As in about 4k players instead of 4282 players exactly.
I say estimated because with variables like inventory amount, character customization variety, distribution of players throughout instances , input/output of commands per person you CANNOT put a hard number on it.

I'm not sure what sort of bearing you putting in more hours ingame means.. congrats, I'm sure you have if you're that adamant about it even though you don't know me at all or my playing habits or account details.

I don't work for SE, so I have no concrete idea what their actual metric is for closing a server. Admitted. BUT, from what they've stated servers get capped when the amount of people (likely active accounts regularly logging in)hits a certain number. Until that metric falls, they are highly unlikely to allow more characters to be made on that server. Asking them to risk problems is unlikely to get an OK no matter how respectfully put.

What's going to happen is people will quit... and stop playing.. and then they'll unlock the server for more creation till they cap again. While the lost players and broken friendships suck, that's how that works in every game I've ever been a part of.

[CaTi]

From our server's perspective, cross-world party finder was completely useless until the server lock. We didn't need other players to start joining our PFs for endgame content, because we already had so many people. Why deal with people you've never even heard of from another server when there's already linkshells filled with reliable/good players right in your backyard? Even prior to/shortly after the release of stormblood, I didn't see a lot of serious gilgamesh groups who were down with fragmenting their team. You either came to the server by transferring in or you stayed on your server. SE has effectively broken the cycle by preventing anyone from getting in. GG

Given the Devs' apparent intent to push cross server stuff out over time. This sort of hunkered down, isolationist mega-server mentality probably isn't something they want reinstating itself any time soon.

[Korbash]

People can say whatever they want, facts are facts. Many people in my previous guild played in the beta, and got in the game at launch. Ones of the rules of the Multi-MMO PAX guild I was in was to get in RP servers or unofficial RP servers chosen by the RP community.

Why? Quite simple, people on RP servers are generally more mature than the other servers, and allow for the RP players in the guild to RP as well.

In the case of FF XIV though the devs stayed silent and the RP community chose 2 servers to get into: Balmung and Gilgamesh. Since most of us never played 1.0 we went on Gilgamesh.

So in case any fool who want to claim it never happened, IT DID! Most of the 2.x RP players went on Gilgamesh, like we did.

As for the lock on Gilgamesh, the first month helped vitalize smaller servers, but since it's been killing Gilgamesh and the community of the server by not allowing new players on the server, and as more time passes it's been killing the economy of the server, and everything else as well, Fates cannot be done, maps cannot be done, etc. We cannot invite fanily and friends because of the lock, people who have yet to play FF XIV, my guild and players, many of them, including me, have been here on Gilgamesh since early access when FF XIV: A Realm Reborn launched, which is more than frustating.

Unlock the server already!!!!

And no, why should I leave? And the guild and everyone in the guild as well? I find that insulting each time I start the client and I see the message to leave in the chat, just want to puch someone, give that message to the people who transfered on Gilgamesh instead and turned it into an over-crowded place.

Also, a good article on the matter:

https://mmos.com/editorials/death-of...ng-a-community

P.S. The FF XIV guild and the main PAX guild had disagreements since, and left and changed the name of the guild in FF XIV, and became The Ninth Front.

[Theodric]

The whole angle of role-players being more mature than people who do not role-play is a complete myth. At least where FFXIV is concerned.

As an aside, 'facts' are not facts when they're laced by bias and no concern for the bigger picture. Gilgamesh and Balmung are locked down for a good reason and a lot of positive things have come of it for other servers as a result of preventing a dangerous amount of players from congregating on one of two bloated servers.

If you want to stay on Gilgamesh, feel free to do so. There's plenty of people still playing there that you have yet to meet so if you're so concerned with stagnation why don't you simply step outside of your comfort zone and randomly chat with people you do not yet know?

We need people to stop pushing false narratives and being over-dramatic. Neither Gilgamesh or Balmung are 'dying'.

[Oscura]

As an aside, 'facts' are not facts when they're laced by bias and no concern for the bigger picture.

Are we really going to sit here and pretend that posts denying this and/or basically saying "no" aren't riddled with bias? Are we really?

The argument of bias need not apply here, you can see very clearly in some replies that people flat out have it out against Gilgamesh and Balmung. People who spite the server for generally no reason except virtue-signaling. "Oh I didn't go on Gil/Bal because I'm better than everyone who flocked there like sheep!" How individualistic of these people.

The only "proof" or "fact," is that Square Enix hasn't unlocked the servers yet. Though people need not be reminded of all the other things that they've made mistakes on, or flat out ignored for as long as possible.

You claim to look at the bigger picture but really you're just as biased as everyone else you are criticizing. You are saying that people are viewing things a certain way because of bias or because since things aren't exactly the way they want it, it's not "dying." Who's to say that just because Balmung and Gilgamesh are locked, people like you and others aren't just deceiving or lying to yourselves that it actually has any sort of positive or meaningful impact? I greatly dislike that people complain about false narratives and then spout one on their own. You cannot prove that the server lock has done anything for stability or how "positive things have come of it for other servers." Especially when, as far as I've seen from friends and my alts, the economies of the grand majority of servers have hardly changed.

At this point, it just sounds like you're repeating yourself if only just to tell Gilgamesh/Balmung players who care about this to shut up. How that isn't supposed to reek of bias is beyond me. It feels like I'm reading the same posts you made before regarding this subject all over again.

For the record, I still don't care if Gilgamesh is dying, and I like seeing less people, but I'm also tired of people seriously acting as if anything from Gil/Bal is "bias" or a "lie" or "not the whole picture," as if they know any better. Just because you agree with what Square Enix did, doesn't mean you're right. They're definitely not infallible.