Horrible game?

[WaffleFaerie]

I'm disappointed that your friend didn't warn you beforehand that his server was full. Balmung and Gilgamesh have been "locked" for a long time, except for brief periods right after maintenance.

But Sargatanas is a nice place! Maybe you can convince your friend to transfer over here to play with you instead?

[Vynien]

He has a large community of online friends and offline friends on his server. Sargatanas I've seen a total of two to three players running around in the "major city" I was in apparently.

Cross server play like WoW fixes issues like this. Friend code referrals allowing players to create a character on their server fixes issues like this. Good customer service explaining how their system doesn't have any of this in place yet prevents pissed off customers like myself.

[WaffleFaerie]

He has a large community of online friends and offline friends on his server. Sargatanas I've seen a total of two to three players running around in the "major city" I was in apparently.

Well, to be fair, we just had a patch on Tuesday, and a lot of people are off in other places doing the new content. People do still hang out in starter cities, but like Masekase said, Limsa is livelier because the bell and board are two steps from the aetheryte. Sargatanas isn't really a low pop server, it's kinda middle-of-the-road. I'm just saddened that your friend knew you were coming and never bothered to tell you to wait until right after maintenance for a shot at getting in? Unless he's still fairly new himself, idk...

But if there's anything else you want to know that you feel isn't being adequately explained by SE, by all means, come back and ask us anything you want!