Please explain this difference. 90 <> 512

[LaylaTsarra]

SE needs to stop transfers to Balmung and Gilgamesh. Raiders have been transferring in droves there for months.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

SE needs to stop transfers to Balmung and Gilgamesh. Raiders have been transferring in droves there for months.

They won't because doing so may prompt people to quit the game entirely. If you're on a low pop server and constantly hear how Gilgamesh is the raid scene or a new player hoping to jump into roleplay on Balmung, only to find out both are locked. Chances are said person will unsub or not bother purchasing the game. Admittedly, I wouldn't have likely picked up FFXIV had I been unable to transfer to Balmung immediately because that's where my friends were. JP has the same "problem". Their raid server is Chocobo. Even if SE did this, it wouldn't spread out raiders. They would eventually all congregate on another server which would become the next Gilgamesh. People generally want to play MMOs with other people, even if they scarily interact with them. I think WoW remedied this by connecting lower pop servers together (but not merge them). That's as close as any MMO will likely get.

[Celef]

snip snip regarding activities on Balm and Gilga

Then just make a free transfert campaign to low populated servers so groups of those raid/RP community can move as pack and repopulate those wild lands that are low populated servers, problem solved ^^

[NolLacnala]

SE needs to stop transfers to Balmung and Gilgamesh. Raiders have been transferring in droves there for months.

Everyone knows you transfer to Balmung for patty cake, not raiding