This has become an exceedingly upsetting issue for my friends and I as well. We've been on Balmung since launch, and with all the new content being announced we have about 5 new players looking to join us on Balmung. I've had the Lodestone saved on my phone, checking every single interval that the character creation restriction page is updated as I can. Balmung has almost been closed solid for a month now according to the page.

You obviously can't pick up you company and move it with you, nor ask a dozen people to all pay 18 dollars to transfer elsewhere. So all we can do is sit around with our fingers crossed, apparently.