Balmung - Seriously need a better system then WORLD IS CLOSED constantly

[Madhojo]

Ok so I'm fairly new, my 30 day free trial isn't up yet and I paid my 18 bucks to transfer into Balmung since in my first week it was constantly closed (2 friends already on this world). Now FF14 is on sale for the PS4 and I've touted this game (since I like it a lot) to a few of my friends. Well 1 of them bought it already and Balmung is still not open! So the other 2 refuse to buy it because what's the point of playing an MMO if you can't play with friends?!

So long story short, my question is, What is the best way to get into a world? I assume we're doing something wrong because I can't believe a company would deliberately set up a system which discourages people from buying their product. Please someone, anyone, help me!!

(Thank you for reading!)



Edit 1/19/2015: So my friend just paid the 18 like me to transfer in and my other 2 buds simply won't play. Oh well, crappy system. Guess one of the Marvel MMO's used an invite system to let friends play together in full worlds, might be worth FF14's time to rethink their way of doing things.