Square: You need to open servers before this community is slowly choked

[Lazaruz]

Why are you so against opening it then? I and many other have been and are still willing to deal with instabilities. If it doesn’t affect you why are you against it and name-calling those that desire to see new players without giving up their long established home?

Unless you can speak for all, or atleast a clear majority of Balmung's players, saying you and "many others" are willing to deal with server instabilities (and what could potentially culminate in downright corruption if your character data. Bet you'd love that now wouldnt you?) far from means anything

I understand the will to see the influx of new players, but frankly, where I'm standing you picked your poison when you joined what is probably the most well known server for atleast the english speaking community (I knew about Balmung and it's status as a "RP server" before even starting FF14 ffs)

As many have said before me, you cant eat your cake and still have it.
No ammount of complaining is gonna change that, especially when the problem is players being stubborn

[Mysterysword]

Balmung =/= the entire player population of FF XIV. I know this is a shocking concept for you, but there are dozens of other thriving servers for FF XIV out there who will continue to support SE even as Balmung thins out.

So as large and important as you believe Balmung to be, you're still a minority of FF XIV players. And frankly, this self-centered attitude is, at its core, exactly why we can't stand all this unlocking whining.

[Titor]

Alright then, guess I can’t argue with that. Time to relinquish my personal house and tell the remaining group of people in my dwindling fc farewell. After saying bye to the 5 or so good friends I’ve been hanging out with for the last three years, I’ll make my transfer for the sake of meeting some new people.

Which server should I head to?

[Keridwyn]

Alright then, guess I can’t argue with that. Time to relinquish my personal house and tell the remaining group of people in my dwindling fc farewell. After saying bye to the 5 or so good friends I’ve been hanging out with for the last three years, I’ll make my transfer for the sake of meeting some new people.

Which server should I head to?

None. It sounds like you have everything you need. Balmung will unlock when it's size shrinks to a point of parity with the bulk of the other servers. What you guys call 'dead' most of us call Friday night. The big server feel may go away but you still have houses, friends, and your realm of choice.

[Kaethra]

FFXIV is weird in the sense that its a 6th gen MMORPG that still has severs. Many 4th and 5th gen use the megaserver setup and instance the zones as needed. Even WoW is doing this by instancing their 'phases' (they don't have zones in the same way other games do).

They should consider doing this with FFXIV, you choose NA, EU, or JP as your server and zones spread out people in multiple instances as needed. Combining resources to service all would be more efficient. Locked servers use the same as low-dead servers whose hardware is really going to waste. They'd just have to bite the greed bullet on server transfer revenue.

[RiyahArp]

I don't think it's a matter of locked servers. The elephant in the room is that SE doesn't do a good job of getting people to stay playing.

The content model we have encourages raidlogging, and stormblood made it worse by being more or less an extension of Heavensward, not it's own expansion. By this I mean that we do more or less exactly the same things we did in HW, with no real variation or unique aspect to the game. While people leveled their mains, the game was busy. Now that people have done so, there simply isn't enough fresh content to keep people playing.

I think SE knows this too, which is why they wound up repeating a couple of past events. Even then, the current content model is tired, and on locked servers, there aren't enough newbies coming in to replace the raidloggers/patchquitters. But if the current population were still playing, there's be much less of an issue.

[DeaconMoore]

Mateus and Omega exist as alternatives for those seeking role-play. The latter is, however, currently locked down as well. There's also pockets of role-players scattered across other servers.

Can we please quit telling people to go to X server to RP. Seriously, no server has an RP tag, you are free to RP on all servers. If you insist on swarming one or 2 servers with RPers you'll just end up creating another Balmung situation.

Spread out, expose more people to RP, make some new converts. Quit isolating yourselves and complaining about stagnation and lock outs.

[Kazgrel]

Balmung =/= the entire player population of FF XIV. I know this is a shocking concept for you, but there are dozens of other thriving servers for FF XIV out there who will continue to support SE even as Balmung thins out.

So as large and important as you believe Balmung to be, you're still a minority of FF XIV players. And frankly, this self-centered attitude is, at its core, exactly why we can't stand all this unlocking whining.

This 100%, and I state that being one who left Balmung during SB early access (was there all of HW). Ended up with a personal house and an upgraded FC house, among other things. Wouldn’t go back even if it were free.

[CaTi]

Gonna get massacred for this but... one of the bigger arguments I see often for not moving off these servers is about the personal housing (which I get, it's rare and all that jazz, and that RPers in particular use them for things) but if the "stagnating" community is really ruining your enjoyment of the game. Does the house actually matter that much if you aren't really enjoying the game you pay monthly for?

[Rokke]

Can we please quit telling people to go to X server to RP. Seriously, no server has an RP tag, you are free to RP on all servers. If you insist on swarming one or 2 servers with RPers you'll just end up creating another Balmung situation.

Spread out, expose more people to RP, make some new converts. Quit isolating yourselves and complaining about stagnation and lock outs.

RPers will generally flock to wherever the biggest hubs are as more roleplayers = more variety in roleplaying. Small communities stagnate faster than locked ones lol