How long until transfers to the big servers return?

[CatStarPrime]

I created a few alts on Cactuar, the last few weeks, and the population there seems to be booming. Green sprouts EVERYWHERE, and Limsa and New Grid are almost Balmung-like at times, for activity level. Ul'dah, not so much, no big crowds in the Quicksand or on Emerald in front of the Ruby Road Exchange.

[ValamLym]

Efficient way to make your game go stagnant I suppose, papa nurgle would be proud.

[Lexia]

Efficient way to make your game go stagnant I suppose, papa nurgle would be proud.

So locking a overpopulated server and wanting other servers to fill up will make the game go stagnant? That says more about the community then the game.

[ValamLym]

So locking a overpopulated server and wanting other servers to fill up will make the game go stagnant? That says more about the community then the game.

Not immediatly, but slowly. You'll certainly tear a massive chunk out of new player influx. Face it, people enjoy playing with friends, when they can't they wont go to a diff server, they'll quit.

[Lexia]

Not immediatly, but slowly. You'll certainly tear a massive chunk out of new player influx. Face it, people enjoy playing with friends, when they can't they wont go to a diff server, they'll quit.

So you never made any other friends or other connections in the game from what I assuming are your RL friends you referring to?

[Berethos]

Not immediatly, but slowly. You'll certainly tear a massive chunk out of new player influx. Face it, people enjoy playing with friends, when they can't they wont go to a diff server, they'll quit.

I hear that only friends of players on Balmung or Gilgamesh are coming to the game...confirm or deny?

On a more serious note, those two are hardly the only servers with healthy populations, and hardly the only servers new players coming to the game will want to go to.

The idea that the game will live or die based on how just two servers are handled is just silly.

[ValamLym]

So you never made any other friends or other connections in the game from what I assuming are your RL friends you referring to?

I'll ignore the attempts at making it personal.

That's not what I'm hinting at, people need an anchor to keep them in the game, take that away and they'll just drift away. Very few people look at a MMORPG and think ''I'll hop into that to make friends'' their friend invites them to play it with them and that's how they make your ''new connections''

I can count the people I know that joined a MMO alone on one hand. There's always someone they follow or join with.

Its like locking Argent Dawn.

[Paladinleeds]

I'll ignore the attempt at making it personal.

That's not what I'm hinting at, people need an anchor to keep them in the game, take that away and they'll just drift away. Very few people look at a MMORPG and think ''I'll hop into that to make friends'' their friend invites them to play it with them and that's how they make your ''new connections''

I can count the people I know that joined a MMO alone on one hand. There's always someone they follow or join with.

However for the sake of the game's health long-run we might need to say to those friends of Balmung/Gilga players "Alright, either start on a server without your friend, get your friend to move with you, or don't play at all", and leave it at that ulimatum. The fact they've stopped transfers to that server which gave them a decent chunk of change means the server is (most likely) on the brink of collapse. Else why would they shut off that revenue source? The ultimatum sucks, but it seems it was required.

[Lexia]

I'll ignore the attempt at making it personal.

That's not what I'm hinting at, people need an anchor to keep them in the game, take that away and they'll just drift away. Very few people look at a MMORPG and think ''I'll hop into that to make friends'' their friend invites them to play it with them and that's how they make your ''new connections''

I can count the people I know that joined a MMO alone on one hand. There's always someone they follow or join with.

Not everyone that plays the game joins cause of friends, and I should know I as I am one of them I don't have any RL friends that play this game. Not now or when the game launched, there also some people in my FC in the same boat. There are also people in the FC that joined cause of friends but have since quit so the whole anchor thing does not always apply.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

My FC is GTFO'in Balmung as soon as the free transfers come into play. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of small FC's do the same.