Split Balmung into 2 separate servers

[Bizzy]

Please split Balmung & maybe Gilgamesh into 2 separate servers. But keep them locked for any new characters and transfers until things stabilize out.

Back in the 1.0 days, Besaid and Fabul merged together to become what we know now as Balmung. This may have seem like a good idea back then, but it's way to overcrowding today.

This might help with the problems that we are having today. SE can give people the option of which server they wish to remain on or transfer to, so you can stay with FC and/or your friends, etc.

This is just my thought that might alleviate some of the server issues.

[Hasrat]

NA doesn't need any new servers, though.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Nah. They just need to squash Balmung and Greg's population back down to manageable #'s.

[MomomiMomi]

Now that I see them adding new worlds, I think the most likely thing to happen is it'll just stay locked. The population will slowly go down, and once our worlds finally have a more even distribution, they'll add a new world(s), which may be the push Balmung and Gilgamesh need.

[RubenSnizzle]

Just wait it out. All the casual that want to try out SB are back and want to play it. In a week or two everything will be back to normal.

Sure it sucks having queues of 4k (lol, i ain't waiting that..) and you want to play, but what can you do? That's life.

[Ferocious]

Sure it sucks having queues of 4k (lol, i ain't waiting that..) and you want to play, but what can you do? That's life.

Right now, Leviathan has queue of 4k+ and it's hardly moving. Yet the server is still open for transfer/character creation.

Seriously, it's another server they need to close down. The wait times are getting ridiculous.

[Vidu]

I'm wondering... how would you want to decided who gets to stay on which server after the split? Who goes to BalmungA and who to BalmungB? Randomly? You get to choose one of your liking?
If you get to pick, you most likely pick the server your friends are going to, right? Like... a whole group decides to which server they're going to move... you see what I'm getting at here? If they split the server and everyone gets distrubuted randomly, theres going to be an outcry about splitting friends, FC, communties... if you get to choose (and most likely decide together with your group) - how is that going to be so different than having your group discuss moving together, now that we're having free transfer? Just because a split would actually force you to make that choice?
Splitting the server would essiantially be creating a new server - and why should they bother when there are quite a few servers on your datacenter that you can fill before they make a new one?

[vio_p]

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Personally if i was in charge of doing it i'd do it based off of activity with the main focus on anyone who was not subbing an account for a year+ and came back for SB would be automatically moved to a new server regardless with an added bonus of any person who is a couple and wants to play with their partner gets moved together on the new server. yes they may have friends and family on the server they've been moved from but if they werent playing pre sb then they either have other means of contacting those people or just didnt care enough for them to contact them while they werent actively subbing the game.

[Ayer2015]

Personally if i was in charge of doing it i'd do it based off of activity with the main focus on anyone who was not subbing an account for a year+ and came back for SB would be automatically moved to a new server regardless with an added bonus of any person who is a couple and wants to play with their partner gets moved together on the new server. yes they may have friends and family on the server they've been moved from but if they werent playing pre sb then they either have other means of contacting those people or just didnt care enough for them to contact them while they werent actively subbing the game.

That would just make your customers angry, and rightfully so.... not worth it

[Derio]

How do you do the split though? It would be better if they simply set a NA server as a promotional server like omega but it be for balmung players