How long until transfers to the big servers return?

[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.