Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Oh, that may have been an actual issue, but it may not be the root cause.
They have lots of sustainable servers, people just transferred off for "greener pastures." In reality, they need to lock down Balmung and Greg, and LEAVE them locked, to EVERYTHING. No world transfers to either, and free transfers off, along with the removal of the gil restriction specifically for people leaving them. Add housing wards to the other servers and make it so you can transfer housing between servers.
They won't because it has a far higher chance of backfiring. Plenty of people who play were invited by friends. I likely wouldn't be playing had a friend of mine not mentioned FFXIV and the roleplay aspect of Balmung. Yes, they could transfer to a smaller server with their friends, but if you've already established roots, are you really going to leave, especially knowing you cannot ever transfer that character? At this point, they have to wait for Stormblood to hopefully funnel people into less populated servers.