Quote Originally Posted by MiquSuke View Post
Wait...they've been locking servers?
Several servers, including Balmung and Gilgamesh (this one is now re-opend) but also servers on the JP datacenters I believe, have been locked for transfers - as in: you couldnt transfer your character to those servers anymore. This happend around spring of this year, if my memory isnt failing me. Til then people used that to circumvent the more or less permanent lock on character-creation on those servers - make the character on a less populated world, pay to get it to Blamung/Gilgamesh/any other server you want it.
This only happend to servers that reached or actually went way over the capacity they can hold - since the automatic lock on character-creation wasnt enough, they finally had to lock those servers for transfer aswell, while offering incentives to transfer to less populated worlds - apparently that isnt enough for some people on Balmung though who dont understand or dont care about the problems their overpopulated server is causing.
Case and point: Balmung remains locked, Gilgamesh got unlocked since the population stablized enough and most other servers have nothing to worry about.