I understand that Balmung is the most populated server in the game. With the new players signing up, one would want to make sure that the population of the more crowded servers does not fluctuate any way except downwards.

But... why at the cost of new players? My friend will not play the game if it is not with us. Why should he pay for a game that will not let him play with his friends after all? In the past, character creation restrictions dropped during the late/early hours so that the determined could still make a character. This is obviously not the case. It is not even possible to make a character on a different server and then pay an additional fee to transfer it to Balmung, as absurd as that is.

So I ask... could you please lift or revise the character creation restrictions? I see no reason for them to be as they are. It may have shuffled the server population slightly to be more favorable, but is that worth loss of increase in new subscribers?