Servers are fracturing communities

[Airget]

Well, this is the problem of everyone telling everyone else "join balmung or gilgamesh."

Its no ones fault but the players.

Plus this is why SE is pushing to have Datacenters at least share a community through Party Finder. Sure right now you can't engage in dialogue or be with them in the open world, but with time they may introduce Instances in which friends from other servers could hang out.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

Blame the raiding community for flocking to Gilgamesh. Nobody to blame, but the players.

[LalaRu]

In the while, the EU players...

[NanaWiloh]

I'm sure Balmung players will be happy when the queue to get into world is at 2000 before you on opening day. Hey lets let more in so it can be 5000.

This is pretty much whats going to happen on June 16th with early access. Massively long que times for players on over populated servers and threads complaining about the long que times.

[Anarnee]

Been on siren since I started, there was a mass exodus some years back (to gilg or balm?) And well, never changed a thing for me, even before the cross server pf. I have never had trouble meeting people. Leveling alts on Gilg and balm however, can't say I really ever made any connections. The big servers and their "communities" are no better than any other. It is up to us to make connections.

[Ogulbuk]

Plus this is why SE is pushing to have Datacenters at least share a community through Party Finder. Sure right now you can't engage in dialogue or be with them in the open world, but with time they may introduce Instances in which friends from other servers could hang out.

Have they not hinted at allowing cross-server linkshells and friend lists already as a next step in cross-world tools? Ideally, we would eventually get to also have cross-world FCs.

[Sil3ntxR3qui3m]

I've been on Balmung and Gilgamesh for long periods of time, now I'm on Zalera. I gotta say it's still lonely either way lol. Balmung is toxic imo (sooo much drama over everything big and small, "not gonna carry you, git gud" on 1st day content, etc) and Gilga is too hardcore for my tastes.

People gotta spread out more.

[Shihen]

...it feels like this is all being done so the devs can continue this outdated and lazy server formula. There are plenty of ways this can be fixed and done a lot more efficiently

I'm not proposing any solutions, if you want them hire me lol. I'm simply trying to raise awareness of this.

Not sure if you're just trolling with this thread, but it clearly says right there on the page "Transfers to the following Worlds have been suspended until their active player populations have stabilized.". If they didn't do it, the login queue on launch day would be thousands of players longer than it already will be. Also, if you have an an approach to large-scale data processing and storage that doesn't involve computers dedicated to processing and storing data, aka a server, skip Square Enix and just contact the Nobel committee so they can start writing your check.

[Keydah]

What more important to you playing with online friends or playing with real life friends? Sounds like one o f those I want my cake and to eat it also.

Both are equally important. If you choose a server that isn't locked constantly due to overpopulation, you get both. What's the argument here?

[EorzeaHero69]

How often congestion can happen at certain times depends on how many players there are in each server. Overpopulated servers are pretty much worse when expansions go live than other times because you have so many people logging in at once, which causes a lot of congestion. Megaservers might not even counter something like that, even if they tried. Lower or average populated servers will have several dc's but not as often as overpopulated ones.