Quote Originally Posted by Microbrewed View Post
The entire Aether data center has been locked for weeks now. Nobody can create new characters or transfer to any of the servers. I set up an automated tracker to check the website every 60 seconds and no server opened. They might want to consider adding another server to Aether and Primal.

I came back after an extended break and found out there was a data center split and I got moved from Aether to Crystal. All of my friends are on the Aether data center which means I have no way to play with them. I do have a level 5 alt I made on Jenova that I guess I could level boost and story skip with but that's $50 just to play an alt with friends.

A lot of people want to play on Aether because that is where the majority of hardcore raid guilds are, and for me personally that is where my friends are. If I want to push savage in a few weeks I have a bad feeling I won't be able to on Crystal.

There is no queue at all on my server and there was only a 20 person queue on launch. Currently some of the fates are failing because I'm the only one doing them. And yes this is in the new zones.

Has anyone heard anything about possible new servers to Aether?
I'm sorry but I can't quite feel sympathy. In fact all of those on Balmung can quite literally parrot what all of the raiders were saying during the last expansion. "This is not SE's problem, it is a player made problem." "Raiders did this to themselves by piling all into one area." Sound familiar?

As others have said raiding is very possible still on Crystal even after all the people freaked out and left the data center.