So about the realm transfer restrictions..

[taleisicas]

I recently realm transferred out of Balmung and into a less populated server in light of a friend that wanted to play with me. Sure enough, a few days after the transfer he decides that FFXIV isn't his thing anyway and I'm stuck here on my own. My own dumb fault, I guess. But I was wondering, since you can't realm transfer back to Balmung because of the new expansion, how long did it take for the realm transfer restrictions to be lifted at the release of Heavensward? The restrictions have been active for two months now.

[Adire]

I don't recall such heavy restrictions being on Balmung around the time Heavensward launched to be honest.

[Mikhaill]

To return to Balmung? Probably not for months, maybe even years.
The population of Balmung was bursting to full way too long and it is still full.
I personally don't want them to remove it until it's just about evened out.
New Characters would be fine in a window of time, but having people pay their way
here is awful. It's part of the reason we had a free transfer and the AFK kicker.
HW to SB are two different things because I don't recall waitin' 4 dang hours to login, or barely a
Q time at all. The place needs to thin out some more.

[Aronys]

Balmung won't free up for the next year, realistically speaking. Sorry, but... you won't be able to go back for a while. This current limitation isn't because of the expansion, it's because Balmung got way too big and they're basically begging people to transfer off.

[taleisicas]

Welp. Looks like I'm not going back home any time soon. Guess I'll have to get comfortable in Leviathan. \o/ Thanks for the replies, though.

[Breezelyn]

Welp. Looks like I'm not going back home any time soon. Guess I'll have to get comfortable in Leviathan. \o/ Thanks for the replies, though.

Hey! Leviathan isn't actually that bad if you find the right FC and friends. If you need someone to do stuff with, hit me up!

[Blood-Aki]

Considering they are still struggling to get people OFF the server shows it won't be open for a while, as it should be, I think you and anyone who has been on balmung or gilgamesh has seen the massive issues caused by congested/overpopulated servers. Why WOULD you want to go back.

[Roda]

Idk why you guys are saying it would take years for balmung to open. We've had non-queue queues during the most peak of times, and no instabilities during times of high traffic (well no non-ddos instabilities). I'm sure that they could take off the hard lock on the server now and we would be fine since I'm fairly sure the community has learned its lesson by now.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Idk why you guys are saying it would take years for balmung to open. We've had non-queue queues during the most peak of times, and no instabilities during times of high traffic (well no non-ddos instabilities). I'm sure that they could take off the hard lock on the server now and we would be fine since I'm fairly sure the community has learned its lesson by now.

Lol. No it hasnt. I've heard a ton of people saying the transferred off only until it re-opens again.

[Paladinleeds]

Lol. No it hasnt. I've heard a ton of people saying the transferred off only until it re-opens again.

Maybe SE could reopen the realms but put on a 10 year lock to SE accounts with characters that transferred off Balmung preventing them from creating any new characters on Balmung or transferring on to the realm. Maybe that would make it safer to do?