When will the login restrictions be lifted?

[JunseiKei]

I'm not sure what the stove is in this analogy. Is it creating a character on the server? If so, I take full responsibility for creating a character in 2010 when the servers were dead. Had I only the foresight not to build a community of friends on Balmung! My hubris has ruined me!

I am aware Balmung was a legacy server. There is nothing there to keep legacy players bound to that server any longer, like there had been in the beginning. I sense sarcasm, or at least mockery as that is what people are wont to do when they don't like something, but I shall entertain nonetheless.

I suppose the stove would be the amount of players on the server and the heat of the stove would be server capacity. The crying would be players refusing to leave for sake of friends and other obligations. The first aid is server transfer incentives. Players demanding SE to fix (no, you hurt us!) may very well wind up with SE forcing a fix that may be "worse" yet.

Oddly enough, if you really are a legacy player, I'm not "blaming" you. If anything, I blame the people that flocked to your server due to the reputation it acquired as being the unofficial RP server. However, simply sitting back and digging your heels in the dirt and refusing to budge only prolongs the issue at hand, regardless if you are a newer player to the server or there from 1.0.

Until then, enjoy the 4-hour queues.

[Genaxx]

This thread:

SE: The stove is hot.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: *Puts hand on hot stove and cries.*
SE: We said it was hot. First aid is in the bathroom. Go take care of yourself. We need to cook.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: No! You hurt us, so you fix it!

I moved to Omega like SE wanted us to, now im stuck again in 2 hour queues and cant transfer for another 90 days.

This whole thing has been a complete clusterfuck. New servers should have been added before stormblood and not just 2.

[Zojha]

I moved to Omega like SE wanted us to, now im stuck again in 2 hour queues and cant transfer for another 90 days.

With the funniest bit being the server still being open for free transfers + incentives in spite of that.

But I'm sure "somehow" that's gonna be the player's fault as well. I don't know how or why. But someone is always going to put the blame on players rather than SE, no matter how badly they eff up.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I know Balmung has more people then Gilgamesh, but 4 hours seems a little excessive. This is coming form someone on Greg too. The most I have waited is 45 minutes.

Balmung queues between 1-8pm can range from 2-4 hours easily. Twelve help you if you get an immediate disconnect or Directx11 in between. The problem Balmung has right now is it's become a multi-community server. You have raiders, roleplayers, casuals and etc all on one server. Despite the heavy RP focus, they are numerous PvE only players, which exacerbates the queues that much more. Simply put, the server can't handle everyone at once. It's easy to say "just leave" but this wouldn't be an issue if SE either had better servers or hadn't been greedy and closed transfers ages ago. It's not exactly a secret Balmung's population is massive.

With the funniest bit being the server still being open for free transfers + incentives in spite of that.

But I'm sure "somehow" that's gonna be the player's fault as well. I don't know how or why. But someone is always going to put the blame on players rather than SE, no matter how badly they eff up.

Of course it's the players fault. How dare we blame poor lil ole Square Enix. Unless it's about the cash shop! Then they're absolute monsters.

[Lexia]

I am aware Balmung was a legacy server. There is nothing there to keep legacy players bound to that server any longer, like there had been in the beginning.

But there is, people have friends (yes they could move also), FC (and yes there always join new one), but in my case a house. Yes SE would give me the amount I paid for the house back but I already checked out the server I thought about going to with an alt and all the housing in the zone I would want are gone so I would not be able to get a house back after transferring.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

This thread:

SE: The stove is hot.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: *Puts hand on hot stove and cries.*
SE: We said it was hot. First aid is in the bathroom. Go take care of yourself. We need to cook.
Balmung&Gilgamesh players: No! You hurt us, so you fix it!

Correction.

SE: The stove is hot, but instead of turning it off, we'll still allow people to use it... for a fee.
Balmung & Gilgamesh players: So we can use it if we pay you?
SE: Absolutely!
Balmung & Gilgamesh players: Cool!

[Hyperia]

Balmung is so large, they could make an entire data center out of it.

[Doki]

If I were to guess, I would say about 2 weeks after Omega is released:
People will be back to a schedule of logging in, capping tomes, and Omega clears in 1 night. Plus the rest will just quit entirely at the difficulty spike. Just a guess anyhow.

[Lexia]

If I were to guess, I would say about 2 weeks after Omega is released:
People will be back to a schedule of logging in, capping tomes, and Omega clears in 1 night. Plus the rest will just quit entirely at the difficulty spike. Just a guess anyhow.

Yea my guess would least for balmung and Gilgamesh is that least 25% of the population will drop off .

[Rhysati]

What SE needs to do, if they're not going to enforce the afk timer and ban people for exploiting, is to periodically take down any zone server with a retainer bell in it and purge the game of the 100s to 1000s of afk players. Cities, housing wards, housing interiors, and the endgame hubs all taken down every 45 minutes with system warnings broadcasted every 5 minutes starting at 30 minutes until zone refresh.

So...screw anyone that roleplays then? Gee thanks.