How long until transfers to the big servers return?

[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.

[Katryn]

SE needs to tell everyone on BAL and GIL that the servers are going to be deleted in X (30? 60? 90?) days. All characters from those servers can transfer to A, B, C, D, or E and should click (link) to specify their preferred server by X date. As compensation for the inconvenience, A, B, C and D rewards are being offered to players who actively participate in the server rebalancing program. All characters that have not been assigned a realm by their player before X (date) will be moved to a new server via random selection.

By giving ample time, SE would allow communities (RP, LGBTQ, Raiders, etc.) to decide where they want to go. By offering rewards that are obtained by actively being a participant in solving this problem, they could reduce backlash and make the transfer process less frightening and more productive.

This is probably not going to be a popular solution, but in theory it would end the problem.

[ExKage]

This is probably not going to be a popular solution, but in theory it would end the problem.

So would a complete server split but that's not a good way to fix things either. That's about as horrible a solution as splitting the worlds.

[Edewen]

SE needs to tell everyone on BAL and GIL that the servers are going to be deleted in X (30? 60? 90?) days.

yeah, that shit storm would reach historic levels. "Now that we have let you all pay to transfer to these servers, we are going to forcibly move you off them because we let you all pay to transfer to these servers" Good luck with that

[MomomiMomi]

yeah, that shit storm would reach historic levels. "Now that we have let you all pay to transfer to these servers, we are going to forcibly move you off them because we let you all pay to transfer to these servers" Good luck with that

With the introduction of the World Transfer Service, there may be cases where players are requested to transfer to other Worlds due to fluctuations in population. We may also consider the splitting or merger of Worlds. Because of this, there may be instances where players who have used the World Transfer Service are requested to move to a different World. Please note that in such cases, applications for World transfers cannot be canceled or refunded.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...nsfer_service/

Not saying people wouldn't be upset, but they were warned.

[Blackbird1]

i'm guessing no time in the near future problem is that well in balmungs case it's all role players how many other heavy rp server are out there on na data centers? just balmung and gilgamesh right?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...nsfer_service/

Not saying people wouldn't be upset, but they were warned.

The inevitable shitstorm just... wouldn't be worth it financially. They risk losing a substantial amount of customers considering they're pissing off the two largest servers in the entire game. Furthermore, it wouldn't accomplish anything. Those who did stay, would just congregate on a new server. Sargatanas has a fairly decent following and all the RPers will move whatever new server is designated the RP server, and bam, you have two new mega servers again.

While I agree Balmung and Gilgamesh needed to be locked. Their timing is horrendous. Why wait to implement all these incentives? No one is going to leave when they're still charging $18 and you'll lose your house should you have one. Had this been done months ago, with all the perks implemented immediately, a sizable portion may have left before Stormblood.

[347SPECTRE]

They did this lock really half-assed. As many have said previously they REALLY should have done the transfer incentives the moment the servers were locked, that way before SB drops, server population would have at least partially balanced out. With the current rout they're going, launch is going to be quite a shit-storm.

[Slirith]

I'd love to transfer off but I don't wanna deal with blacklisting/reporting RMT every time I go into a main city.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I'd love to transfer off but I don't wanna deal with blacklisting/reporting RMT every time I go into a main city.

This is such a boon on the megaservers...

I almost forgot RMT existed.