Petition to Terminate Restrictions on Transfer to “High Population” Servers

[Vanitas]

Lahabrea is dancing in his grave as this whiney thread generates enough chaos and discord across the realm in service to the One True God.

[Donaria]

Side note why does Balmung sound like "Ball-Dung"

[Aniond]

Or you could transfer to a low pop server. This is a good move instead of having 12 hour ques and server lag and crashes.

[Shilvers]

Two? I only read it as new worlds, which could be more!

[Kazrah]

I think you totally misread their post. lol

I did. The caffiene was wearing off.

Two? I only read it as new worlds, which could be more!

Pretty sure somewhere it said two new worlds for Chaos. Could be more, but pretty sure it's at least two.

Now what was I--oh right, caffiene.

[Ageofwar]

I don't agree with this peitition

I will have to say that this was needed long ago

remind me if i'm wrong but didn't only balmung fall over a few hours after 3.5 went live?

before you pull out your pitch forks against SE for locking you server, I would have to say this is the gentlest way of sorting this out letting the playbase resolve this instead of SE and people are right, other games do this too.

The anouncment could easily read

We are shutting down Balmung and the playerbase will be spilt between 2 new NA server, Server A (insert ff sounding name) and Server B (insert ff sounding name here too)

^^ this would solve the issue quickly but the spilt would be quite brutal and very unemotional but it would solve the server stabilty.

and for the record i'm not saying the above should happen

[MeoTwister5]

You guys should move to Coeurl. I need more neighbors I can annoy.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I am also peeved beyond measure.

I run the world's largest LGBTQ Gaming Community off of Gilgamesh. We were first FC in beta, and first house, and spent what's approaching 4 years developing a server that is free of hate speech against sexual orientation by working with nearly every FC through exhaustive linkshells and Facebook communications. We've had 2,700+ unique FC members as verified manually through Enjin as of April 2017. You cannot tell 2,700 accounts to transfer without fears of the free transfer being lifted. There are too many risks, including losing the trust of our members and our community.

You can listen to trolls who have nothing better to do than to demean other player experiences, but that doesn't change that Gilgamesh has been the center of a thriving community with 3-10 brand new players every single day. The first day we tried expanding to Faerie server, we were greeted by an FC called <AIDS>. Don't tell me homophobia doesn't run rampant.

[Jeykama]

^^^ What is this post even, I fail to see how locking servers involves homophobia at all. So people in your expanded community can't transfer into Gilgamesh, big deal. No offense but I think you're on the wrong target to argue.

For what it's worth, Balmung and Gilgamesh at least should have been hard-locked to transfers and character creation long ago. The level of active pop is absurd compared to average pop of the other NA servers.
Perhaps the only mistake was not having free transfers to low-pop servers available sooner, or the same time as the lock announcement.

For those who never experienced the HW launch, enjoy your 2-4k actual login queues on SB launch, because without this lock it would surely be higher.

[Veritas-Ancora]

^ Consider 2,700 members. Two thousand, seven hundred. When would you ever get that many people in your own FC? Why in the world would thousands of people pay for a server transfer to join an obscure FC and make it one of the largest in Final Fantasy XIV history?

Because it really is that bad, and most straight people don't have to care how players get undermined with off color jokes and comments and calling people every word in a Discord-based raid group that, by even mentioning those words here would get you suspended -- but no one thinks about them in a raid group. When you've got thousands of people paying the ridiculous server transfer costs to get away from it and just play the game like any other human being, there's something that you cannot ignore.

Our guild is proof that there is a problem, and people are willing to pay to get away from it.