Please Unlock Balmung

[Jokerbug]

Personally, I'd like it if they would let us that already have characters on the server to make more characters since having more than one character isn't the problem. That's just me though and I doubt there's a way for them to do that without allowing other people into Balmung. I also happen to have four blank spots that I regret not filling when I had the chance.

It's for selfish reasons of just wanting more characters to play and create stories with and entangle them into the same communities my other characters are in. Sure it would be great for more people to be allowed on the server, but stability is something that's also appreciated. We can only hope SE is being as transparent as possible about the issue and they haven't given a reason that they aren't. So hopefully more people move off so I can fill my character slots and maybe some new blood will come in then.

[ManuelBravo]

No...No... Please no Unlock Balmung Server is nice and stable. If they unlock it people will begin to complain again and as always an endless circle. Also seems many of troll society has transferred out and is kind of peaceful for now.

[Lilseph]

I understand the reasons behind locking Balmung out, it was and it still is a very busy server. It saddens me that I can't bring my friends to play with me though. I have a FC and a couple of houses that I can't just leave behind considering how hard they are to get. Besides that, I have a lot of people playing here too. I wish that, if they slowly start to lift the restriction, they could make it so only people with a "invitation letter" can transfer over. Something like "recruit a friend" campaign but with transfers.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I understand the reasons behind locking Balmung out, it was and it still is a very busy server. It saddens me that I can't bring my friends to play with me though. I have a FC and a couple of houses that I can't just leave behind considering how hard they are to get. Besides that, I have a lot of people playing here too. I wish that, if they slowly start to lift the restriction, they could make it so only people with a "invitation letter" can transfer over. Something like "recruit a friend" campaign but with transfers.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but how do you determine who gets to invite someone, and how many? If every "active" player on Balmung got one free invite, and even if only half of the players took that free invite (but let's be real, a portion would be selling their invites on the side), going by the unofficial census numbers, you'd get an additional ~7,500-10,000 players. Given that your ~20,000 players currently is too much for the server, how do you think that's going to play out?

You can't do it for one person because they really want it without giving the same chance to everyone else.

Personally, I'd like it if they would let us that already have characters on the server to make more characters since having more than one character isn't the problem.

This, though. I don't understand why they don't still allow current accounts to make new characters, but I guess it's something to do with their back-end coding.

[DevilsDontFly]

The problem is that Gilgamesh was the go-to server if you wanted to raid. Cross-server party finder and raid finder killed the purpose of having a raid dedicated server, for the better. So now even though the gates to Gilgamesh are open again the influx of players is still not that high. Gilgamesh is no longer the second highest populated server. Gilgamesh is no longer even having queues to log during prime time on the weekends.

Balmung on the other hand even with character creation lock and server transfer lock is still leagues ahead any other server in population and activity. You still have queues to log in on a regular basis. And I know the moment the gates open we can safely expect a data center crash due to the absurd amount of transfer and creation requests. Balmung is definitely not ready to be open again.

[Kazgrel]

Why do people from Balmung deserve some great transfer incentive? I left Balmung shortly after 4.0 launched. My boyfriend came with me and we joined up with people who were doing the same be it from Balmung or Gilga.

The idea you deserve something more than what is already being offered is just insane to me.

This 100%. If they were to do this, I’d expect a retroactive reward as a result since I was one of many who bailed on Balmung early on at 4.0 start. See how silly it starts getting when people keep demanding a king’s ransom to leave Balmung?