Player opinion request: When do you think they will re-open transfers to Omega/why?

[dgabrielm]

So, it's been 3-4 months since transfers to the Omega server were blocked for server stability reasons, but now that the transfers are no longer free, and the server has been placed in the 'normal' list, how long do you think it will be until SE re-open transfers?

Do you think it will be any day now and they're just still busy implementing 4.1 fixes? Or is there another reason why they might be holding off? I would have thought that since Shirogane housing was all gone within 20 minutes of release they might decide there is no longer a practical reason to stop transfers.

[worldofneil]

I thought it might be 4.1 for all the reasons you listed above as well as a lot of people passed the 90 day lock so transferred back off again.

But since that didn't happen who knows... 4.2?

[MistakeNot]

I do not know when transfers to Omega will re-open.
It likely depends on the size of the active population, but since I do not have access to the actual number of active players on each server I do not know exactly how Omega compares to the other servers.

[NekoD]

I have nooo idea. I had thought 4.1 but apparently nope. I have several friends who have been waiting for months now to join me and some of their other friends and Square isn't even giving a timeframe or criteria as to why it's still blocked after so long.

It's getting increasingly frustrating and even moreso by this complete lack of transparency.

[Lunemi]

I was also one of those hoping for them to re-open during 4.1.
Wondering if they forgot about it due to all the Shirogane drama?
The bf and I have been waiting to play together for almost 3 months now, its getting ridiculous.
I wish they'd update us on the situation since the population has most definitely thinned out by now. :/

[dgabrielm]

That's proper annoying. For me, thankfully I got the mrs, my sister and a friend to transfer during the hype, but my best mate is locked out and he's put a load of time into his character so he's not going to make a new one or anything. And he's flippantly said he can't be bothered to transfer to Louisoix first (because I started on balmung, then moved to Cactuar to play with him), so that was the end of that lol. Personally, like many others, I have a bucket of gil from the sale of housing on my old server along with some items I bought that were trending 3 months ago and are now not going to make me the profit I had hoped. I'm starting to think maybe they want the markets to stabilise first to stop opportunists like me, or they didn't want to convenience the gil sellers or something like that.

[dgabrielm]

Seems to me that since they've made it into a standard world (i.e. we'll have to pay for the transfer), it must have stabilised. The whole data centre is too full and I'm glad for the extra servers but sometime I wish I'd known Louisoix was going to be released a week later so I didn't have these issues. Plus there would have been better pickings for housing (because I checked with a new character and there were plenty of decent plots for longer than there were on Omega). Also I feel ambivalent about being on a really busy server. On the one hand there is really healthy crafting business on Omega (but what is up with material prices atm are the gatherers on strike?) but on the other hand I like being on quieter servers, especially now since the DF uses the whole datacentre. Obviously now I can't move to Louisoix because I put too much work into housing etc. Wouldn't be worth the move now.

[locusts]

I'm wanting to add my voice to this discussion and say that Omega should have been reopened already. With the active population surveys showing that Omega is about level (if a little less) than the older EU worlds, it's well beyond time that Omega was reopened. If you guys want Louisoix to be filled, simply block new character creation on Omega and the other high density worlds until its level. Singling out Omega at this point is silly because the bonuses have been removed, and it's frustrating, as I know a lot of people who wish to transfer on to play with me and my free company but have at this point been waiting for months.

[Slipikin]

Edit: Oh....you want people to join you.

[Auryom]

Here to chime in/add voice as well. I myself have been keeping an eye on Omega's opening for the past 3.5 months now, and I still am confused as to why it's consider a pseudo congested world. This is especially confusing when sometimes Shiva would open up, and at some points Odin as well, but Omega would remain as is. To top it off, the dev's and a large portion of the community doesn't seem to really mind the situation, which is understandable given the recent housing situation, and the always-looming Gilga/Balmung server close. Either way, I do feel as though some transparency or at least some update on the transfer situation, however minor it may be, would go a long ways here. Even if it's something like "Opening in 4.2"