How long until transfers to the big servers return?

[Rokke]

Wasn't Mateus trying to become the second RP server?

While the "come to Mateus! :)" posts come from good intentions, I don't see a significant number of rpers taking them up on their offer. Mateus is entirely too dead to be a tempting reason to leave the biggest server. I'd rather be locked with the current batch of people on Balmung than transfer to a place that has a fraction of roleplay population, let alone regular ol player population.

And no - I'm not transfering off. I would only transfer off if my EB partner and best friend linkshell transfers off. And they will only transfer off if their friends will transfer off. And their friends will only transfer off if THEIR friends will transfer off.

This is how I feel most people here are weighing in on it.

[Tsumdere]

Mateus is entirely too dead to be a tempting reason to leave the biggest server.

I understand that some people like small communities, but there is a reason the mega servers are as big as they are. It's a classic "city vs country" debate.

But, from what I'm hearing, in Stormblood we're getting cross-realm (so datacentre wide) friends lists (though don't take me for gospel on that, it's interpretation from what I've been reading on the forums).

Cross-realm PF and friends list is a step in the right direction for sure, but there is still quite a few things you cannot share with friends across server. Correct me if I'm wrong, but activities like maps, higher floors of PotD (I have never tried to cross-server this, but I assume it doesn't work), hunts, miscellanous world adventures, housing, and joint crafting and gathering can only be done with people on your server. It is a fair amount of things to not be able to do with friends who are on different servers. I suppose if you only want to do dungeons, raids, and primals cross-server stuff is pretty good though since I know not everyone does the extra things.

Maybe things like cross-world mailing and cross-world FC housing would be a good addition. It would be nice to have somewhere to stand and goof with friends from different servers that isn't a timed dungeon.

[Hasrat]

While the "come to Mateus! :)" posts come from good intentions, I don't see a significant number of rpers taking them up on their offer. Mateus is entirely too dead to be a tempting reason to leave the biggest server.

Anecdotal evidence, but I've seen a bit of an uptick in population growth recently, and definitely an increase in RP crowns floating around. No competition for a big server or anything, I imagine, but still, not as dead as it was when I started.

[SuzakuCMX]

While the "come to Mateus! :)" posts come from good intentions, I don't see a significant number of rpers taking them up on their offer. Mateus is entirely too dead to be a tempting reason to leave the biggest server. I'd rather be locked with the current batch of people on Balmung than transfer to a place that has a fraction of roleplay population, let alone regular ol player population.

It's not about people moving off Balmung to RP: it's about players who want a larger RP community having to go to Mateus because Balmung is now locked. That means new players who are looking for an RP server or current players who don't have a big enough RP community on their current server.

[Kosmos992k]

the locked servers are overpopulated to an absurd degree and should have been completely locked like this years ago. They will not be unlocked until such time as the population shrinks significantly. Which means a lot of people have to transfer out. So I'm gonna go with a conservative estimate of...
Never.

Agreed, the overpopulated servers should remain locked until their active population diminish's to a more practical level, and they should auto lock if the population exceeds that level again in future.

[ErikMynhier]

Depends on how the launch of SB goes and if people take advantage of the free transfers.

[Berethos]

Assuming the attempts to woo players to new servers (free game time is not one I've seen offered before so that could prove to be a nice incentive) are relatively successful?

I'd guess no sooner than December 2017 (and that's being hilariously optimistic), with a more likely time frame being 9 months to a year out.

The whole thing would need time (imo) to really start encouraging players to move and for new communities to form and become established enough to be stable and not just transfer back when they are opened again, and that process is likely to take time.

[Atlas-04]

An easier solution is to transfer off to join your friends on a open server. Not being mean but that is the only answer right now. The population needs to go down and spread to other servers.

Till then it will hopefully remain locked tight.

[AnaviAnael]

I think I'm the only Balmung player that hopes we stay closed for a while. I understand the plight of others but we are way too full.

[ErikMynhier]

I think I'm the only Balmung player that hopes we stay closed for a while. I understand the plight of others but we are way too full.

You're not the only one.