Aether Data Center Down

[Fellheart]

I've been fighting to log into Balmung on Aether for 2 hours this evening. After clawing my way through the "Lobby server" error message several times, I then sit in a queue of near 1000 people only to get down to a handful of players in queue and then again get booted from the lobby server. This is absolutely absurd.

[DreadRabbit]

I've been fighting to log into Balmung on Aether for 2 hours this evening. After clawing my way through the "Lobby server" error message several times, I then sit in a queue of near 1000 people only to get down to a handful of players in queue and then again get booted from the lobby server. This is absolutely absurd.

Queues are unfortunately a separate issue entirely. If they would lock Balmung from future transfers, then at least what you're seeing now would be the greatest extent of it. However when one guy posted a thread asking for a lock, there was a decent number of people very against it. Until they lock Legacy servers from both new character creation and transfers, that problem's only going to continue to grow.

As for the data center lobby thing: I have to agree with everyone else. Balmung and Gilgamesh really do need to be on different Data Centers. Aether is already home to more servers than most. Having two of the most populated servers on top of that is only causing further problems.