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

[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.

[Lucerna]

While I understand the issue of having larger FCs isolated away from friends who want to play the game and join, I don't think acting angry and demanding on their forums is going to help. Right now, the world visit makes it easier to play with friends on other servers from the same data center. So it is an issue they are addressing, they just can't implement an instant fix.

[silverlunarfox]

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.

All of this

I have brought in 3,000+ subscriptions into Final Fantasy XIV.

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.

It doesn't matter how many subs you think you brought in. There are technical barriers in the way and I don't think you understand that. The fact they even were able to implement a World Visit to help the servers was a good thing. They won't do something just because, YOU think you are more important than their own physical server limitations at the moment. Some things just aren't possible. You are the result of your own consequence.

While I understand the issue of having larger FCs isolated away from friends who want to play the game and join, I don't think acting angry and demanding on their forums is going to help. Right now, the world visit makes it easier to play with friends on other servers from the same data center. So it is an issue they are addressing, they just can't implement an instant fix.

Too much logic. You may make his head explode. /s

But hey, you get it!

[Mychael612]

While I understand the issue of having larger FCs isolated away from friends who want to play the game and join, I don't think acting angry and demanding on their forums is going to help. Right now, the world visit makes it easier to play with friends on other servers from the same data center. So it is an issue they are addressing, they just can't implement an instant fix.

This would be an acceptable answer if this wasn't the SECOND time that this has happened. They learned nothing from when they did this before SB launched.

[Mychael612]

All of this




It doesn't matter how many subs you think you brought in. There are technical barriers in the way and I don't think you understand that. The fact they even were able to implement a World Visit to help the servers was a good thing. They won't do something just because, YOU think you are more important than their own physical server limitations at the moment. Some things just aren't possible. You are the result of your own consequence.



Too much logic. You may make his head explode. /s

But hey, you get it!

You acting all smug and holier-than-thou isn't helping any. The fact is we aren't the only FC that has this issue. AND it's the SECOND time they've let this happen! The same thing happened before SB and our FC suffered because of it. Now they are just proving that they have done NOTHING to alleviate the problem!

[silverlunarfox]

You acting all smug and holier-than-thou isn't helping any. The fact is we aren't the only FC that has this issue. AND it's the SECOND time they've let this happen! The same thing happened before SB and our FC suffered because of it. Now they are just proving that they have done NOTHING to alleviate the problem!

You not finding other workable solutions and yelling on the forums also isnt helping is it?

My points still stand.

This is nothing new. Find the work around until square manages to alleviate issues caused by its own players, or don't.

They implemented World Visit as an attempt at a problem solution. It's not perfect, but given their hamsters for servers, its a good solution for now. It's up to you to do the best you can now. It's not like Gilga was ever a low pop server....

[HyoMinPark]

Honestly not surprised Balmung and Gilgamesh ended up congested. Never thought I'd see the day Cactuar was on there as well. I remember the days when we were a lower mid-pop server.

[Mychael612]

You not finding other workable solutions and yelling on the forums also isnt helping is it?

My points still stand.

This is nothing new. Find the work around until square manages to alleviate issues caused by its own players, or don't.

They implemented World Visit as an attempt at a problem solution. It's not perfect, but given their hamsters for servers, its a good solution for now. It's up to you to do the best you can now. It's not like Gilga was ever a low pop server....

The literal point of the forums is to point out issues to SE. That is the goal here. There is an issue and we are reporting it. Yes, we're looking for work arounds, but none of them are solutions. They are band-aids (and poor ones at that). The World Visit was NOT an attempt at a problem solution, as it does nothing to alleviate population. It too is a band-aid, and one that is not working either. Not when it takes more than an hour to get back to home servers.

[LuminoZero]

People are kind of misconstruing the problem in their anger. As an FC Officer on Gilgamesh, we experienced this at the Stormblood launch. It was horrible.

People on servers that are always open don't understand, because they have never experienced it, but a lack of new blood destroys a server. The vast majority of active players on a locked server, at any point in time, are logging on to cap their currency and then logging off, only coming back for their raid times. And even then, they are doing all of that in preformed groups, effectively isolated from the world. The world isn't alive. You don't see sprouts running around, doing crafting or dungeons or even FATEs (it happens from time to time). You don't see parties in PF asking for help on first clears of content most vets would have no reason to run, but might join on a whim if they are bored.

And, most important for a lot of us, you don't see people joining FCs. The servers stagnate and die a slow death without the constant flow of new players, it's just an observable fact.

Being on Gilgamesh for Stormblood sucked, because maybe a month after the launch the world was dead. I don't want to have to move my entire FC because SE lets that happen again. Saying "Well, you should have formed on another server!" is 100% victim blaming, and misses the point of why we are so upset about this.

EDIT: Somebody brought up another point. Our FC resources. Airships, Subs, fully discovered navigation charts? That's up to a year (50 weeks) of work to get back, not to mention an insane investment of gil if you make the best parts for them. Are we supposed to just eat that cost because SE had two years to figure out how to fix this issue and just sat on their hands?

[Neoyoshi]

Hmmm, The whole Cross-world membership on Free Companies would be nice actually, i'm not sure how SE could make that work, but it would be a welcoming feature none-the-less.

As for the server lock-down (My home of Gilgamesh) i am sorry to see this happened so suddenly, it's not fun for those who wanted to come on over to Greg's party, we actually have some friends as well from other servers who i guess won't be able to make the move as well. D: