Please open Gilgamesh server to new characters/transfers

[PuzzlePlate]

I agree, #FreeGilgamesh. Sadly it seems to me that it will only get worse over time that is until it's a ghost town and suddenly the server is merging with one of the low pop servers. The devs at least need to address this and take 1 a good look at the average player count. We need growth! Not stagnation!

[Thamorian]

Seriously I'm in what was a huge FC, now it feels so dead because we can't get any new players to cycle through.

[MistakeNot]

I suspect the overall active population of Gilgamesh is still quite substantial - else it would not remain congested.

For individual FCs I can see how thing could get dire. They will lose a few members now and then - like all FCs do - but have no new players to recruit to fill up the empty spots with.
Eventually FCs will have to resort to either poaching members from other FCs, or merge with some other FC, or disband due to lack of people.

[Zekaros]

I agree. The only time we have anyone active is during raid time. Then they just log right back off. Most of my friends list never logs on, or if they do they are just afk for hours at a time. The mentor system is completely pointless here. There is zero incentive to get my friends to play, because if I do I would have to leave the server and abandon my house/FC in order to play with them and help them out. Square Enix needs to actually pay attention to their communities.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Open.
The.
Server.

[_Sharess_]

Fully agree, it's choking the community down to bare minimums

[Clowd]

I have been checking to see if the lock has been listed after SB dropped so that I could come back. I server transfers to get the mount I wanted and now I am locked to Mateus which has great peeps but I rather be back home.

Cmon... please take my money so I can get back !

[cakesphere]

#FreeGreg, mentor chat is pretty much just a mentor LS at this point with no sprouts. There are already several open servers with higher pop than Gilgamesh at this point. Server will die without any new blood.

Most of my friends list never logs on, or if they do they are just afk for hours at a time.

Most of my friends already xferred off

[AlastorGaramonde]

This is all making sense to me now. I took a few months break right after I finished Omega the day it released and came back to get a house but have been busy IRL to actually seriously play since then.

I've been noticing a lot of things that were odd but didn't really understand why - things I've never noticed since playing since early release ARR.

* I've been in AST since I've been back and have not been kicked at all. Since my name starts with an A I'm usually first to go. Previously, I would have to rejoin daily.
* I've been to multiple Stormblood hunts where there were only 2 people there so everyone left.
* There was about 5 people total in Rhalgr's Reach last night at 1am EST.
* There are certain markets in the AH that have worked well for me since ARR that no longer work, because there's no new players to buy them.
* Party finder seems to be much less active.

And this is just my casual, log in for maybe an hour a day, observations.

Has this been brought up in a forum that is more easily viewed by SE? Kinda sucks to finally get a house and the entire server just logs in to do savage once a week. I've played other games where they failed to attract new players and the entire server was end-game... It does terrible things to the economy and community, and also alienates any new players that happen to pop in.

[Senn]

Open gilgamesh