Quote Originally Posted by Raist View Post
Login is handled by a different server... AFK players don't impact logins anymore. We used to log directly in to the worlds originally, but they changed that up a long time ago with the addition of the intermediary servers (Aether, Primal, etc). The queuing and "full server" statuses are now triggered and managed at those lobby servers and not by the worlds themselves like they were at launch.
Interesting! Then it really makes me wonder why Balmung is closed off more often than Gilgamesh is despite Gilgamesh having a larger population (AFAIK).