Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
There should honestly probably be some kind of World Pass system, like FFXI had originally. Initially on that game, you couldn't pick a specific server unless someone gave you a special code (retrieved from an NPC, I think, but it's been a very long time), which would then direct your character to their server at creation.

They could do something similar here and allow someone to give a code to a friend or something, so they can bypass the restriction.
This worked in FFXI due to the lack of social media. Nowadays, such a system would accomplish nothing. Between twitch streamers, forums, reddit and twitter, the password would be passed around so much, everyone would know it.

And locking heavily populated servers only hurts Square. How likely would friends of yours be to play the game if they had no way of playing with you? This actually happened to me during BnS' launcher, and I know if I couldn't have gotten on the same server as my group. I just wouldn't have played, period.

There needs to be incentives to play on less populated servers instead of trying to bar people from the larger ones.