Quote Originally Posted by Malphius View Post
I get your frustration cause I'm pretty irritated at this but blaming other players isn't the answer nor are they the ones responsible. SE is the administrator here. Blame falls square on their shoulders and no one else.
Quote Originally Posted by AzakaTonnerre View Post
We had nothing to do with any decision of locking us from transferring off the server at 2.0 launch, the issues with transferring afterwards (gil, friends, etc.) or what datacenter Balmung was put on. We can't log on either because of the way this is/was being handled by SE. I get your frustrations, but point them elsewhere.
The big problem is the overpopulation and congestion, but right now the main problem is specifically with the players. Right now all the players on 2 (most likely full) servers are preventing access to every other server's lobby. The two high population servers are not intentionally meaning to, but they're basically DDOSing the data center and preventing the other players on the other servers from reaching their lobby server and entering the game. It's like if 5 restaurants are inside a building with one door and almost all of the people coming in want just one of those restaurants and block up the door trying to get their food basically choking out any customers wanting the other restaurants.

If you're on Balmung or Gilgamesh and you're getting the error then:
1) stop slamming the data center trying to get in and blocking players from the other servers
2) wait a bit and try again
3) call, email, and forum blast them to fix it.

You're not doing yourself or anyone else any good slamming your requests to the data center blocking everyone else in the hopes that you get to wait in line for a few more hours on the lobby server to enter your actual server.