Petition to Lift Balmung Server Lock / Impact of Server Lock on FFXIV RP Community

[Rasikko]

I fail to see how a server with 40,000+ players..needs to be opened, or have trouble with RP community size -.-. My poor server, Lamia, is like 20k-25k less than Balmung. Come on man..

Is it too late to transfer off of Aether?

It's never too late to transfer out of any server/datacenter o_o.

[Skivvy]

I fail to see how a server with 40,000+ players..needs to be opened, or have trouble with RP community size -.-. My poor server, Lamia, is like 20k-25k less than Balmung. Come on man..

Per recent census figures, https://ffxivcensus.com/, Balmung has about 14.3k active players, Lamia has about 8.4k.

I understand server locks have to happen sometime, this is not the first time I've been on a locked server in a game, but it does suck for those who want to invite friends/family to play the game with them. I'm glad that some people were able to take advantage of the free transfers, but it's not ideal for a lot of people to drop everything they have on a server and start fresh.