Removing Server Lock

[Agnes]

Hi; I'm just wondering, since it's been going on 5 months now, what does it take for SE to decide when a server doesn't need to be locked anymore from character creation or server transfer? I'm asking because being in gilgamesh the server lock was at first good to stop the influx of people when 4.0 started from filling up an already, then, inundated server. However, since the 4.0 hype has significantly died down, the risk of such an overflow is very unlikely. Gilgamesh is the 12th most popular server today and some servers more congested than it, like Leviathan, Cactuar & Behemoth, don't have the server lockout implemented. So I was just wondering what qualifies a server as "congested" to the point that they need to be locked out and suggesting that maybe it's about time gilgamesh's doors be opened up once more

[Melondra]

If that server is locked it has reached it max capacity. The only way that server will be unlocked is if people transfer off that server to a less populated one and free up that server space. You never know it may happen.

[Agnes]

The only other "Congested" server is Balmung; the most populated server in the game. Again, servers like Leviathan, Cactuar & Behemoth are more populated than Gilgamesh but those servers do not have a server lockout. So I don't understand why Gilgamesh is still locked.

[Alien_Gamer]

You've been given the reason, there's too many people on Gilgamesh still. Your data is all from players scraping the lodestone for data and is not accurate.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Gilgamesh needs to be re-opened.

And anyone chiming in not on the server needs to go back to their server because they don't know the seriously awful implications of not allowing friends to join their guilds of friends.

These closed servers are killing the most active communities in the game by allowing no new blood and waiting until everyone unsubscribes. Then what? Nothing. Because Square-Enix has shown no care whatsoever in their last two Live Letters.

Why hasn't Square-Enix provided ANY updates about FC-wide transfers in the last six months? Because they don't care. And the communities on these servers know it.

[silverlunarfox]

You've been given the reason, there's too many people on Gilgamesh still. Your data is all from players scraping the lodestone for data and is not accurate.

This. Even if they aren't active, theres still too many players on Gilgamesh. Unless those people move, or remove accounts, they'll still judge off that number so it won't reopen till something changes.

[Ageofwar]

I really don't know how to make my option known without being abusive, which in part is down to all the "unlock Balmung/Gilgamesh already" thrends (might be worth reducing this down to 1 thead)

I'm sure that SE is monitoring the server number over time and making decisions based on the data they are getting back.

Balmung - I don't see being unlocked anytime soon, no matter how much the community wants new people on there as long as they cling to wanting balmung to remain a high populated server.

Gilgimesh - if what i'm reading correctly and if SE's data supports it in theroy could be re-opened with 4.15 or 4.2

at the end of the day if the population causes server instablity with each seasonal event or each new patch then these 2 servers with not be unlocked