Servers full locked AGAIN!!! Gilgamesh / Cactuar / Balmung

[MistakeNot]

The servers are locked again because people insist on moving to them and staying there.
If you play on one of the most populated servers in the game, then you should know by now that it will get locked from time to time.
You even got free transfers recently if you wanted to move to some less overpopulated server.

The recent reorganizing of the data centers had nothing at all to do with certain servers being full, but was to reduce the load on the instance servers in preparation for the upcoming expansion.

[Veritas-Ancora]

The servers are locked again because people insist on moving to them and staying there.
by now that it will get locked from time to time.

"Locked" and "Congested" are two COMPLETELY different things!

Locked means you have to wait until people leave or log off.
Congested means full stop, nobody allows, server is dead to new blood.

We have fought this over, and over, AND OVER again. Every time a server goes congested, the FC communities severely suffer, new blood is lost, and we have to wait a year until the server dies before it gets reopened again.

Either you want people's money, or you don't.

[MistakeNot]

"Locked" and "Congested" are two COMPLETELY different things!

Locked means you have to wait until people leave or log off.
Congested means full stop, nobody allows, server is dead to new blood.

Yes, I know what Congested means. But since you are the one who started referring to the servers as "Locked" - in the very title of the thread - I thought it only polite to keep using the same term as you did when referring to the servers status.

We have fought this over, and over, AND OVER again. Every time a server goes congested, the FC communities severely suffer, new blood is lost, and we have to wait a year until the server dies before it gets reopened again.

Either you want people's money, or you don't.

So why do you insist on staying on one of the most populated servers then? If you try to attract more players to an already full server, well that will only cause it to become Congested sooner rather than later.

[Veritas-Ancora]

So why do you insist on staying on one of the most populated servers then? If you try to attract more players to an already full server, well that will only cause it to become Congested sooner rather than later.

Why do you insist on putting your two cents into a discussion that doesn't affect you in any way? You're not even on the same continent. And, surprise, your server is in normal status.

I have brought in 3,000+ subscriptions into Final Fantasy XIV. 3,046 to be exact. I am looking out for my members who are inactive due to death, disability, or other situations outside of their control. It would be pretty damn horrible for them to come back and have to pay a transfer fee because they needed extended time away from the game and had to pay more money just to stay with their friends.

I have not had a lapse of subscription for even a month in six years. The least they can do is offer a Free Company cross-server system to maintain my community's structure so we can even consider an FC transfer.

[Canadane]

Why do you insist on putting your two cents into a discussion that doesn't affect you in any way? You're not even on the same continent. And, surprise, your server is in normal status.

Probably because you could use a voice of reason. Their server status has nothing to do with it.

[Mychael612]

So why do you insist on staying on one of the most populated servers then? If you try to attract more players to an already full server, well that will only cause it to become Congested sooner rather than later.

Because SE has not offered any realistic solution to move entire FCs from one server to another. Sure, there are individual transfers, but we've spent millions of gil on a FC house that we would lose and not be compensated for. Then there's the issue of our inactive members. Since FCs are limited to only 512 people, many of our members who go inactive have to be booted to make room for new members. We always welcome these players back, but if we move to another server, one, how are they going to know where we went, and two, is it really fair then to ask them to pay for a server transfer just to rejoin us? Next, we come to the issue that all servers are not equal. The economies are different across the various servers. As one of the most active FCs on our data center, we've put a lot of work and time into the economy here. Why should we have to give that up because SE is mismanaging their game?