Petition to Lift Balmung Server Lock / Impact of Server Lock on FFXIV RP Community

[Nezerius]

Here's the thing: if they unlock balmung, it'll get swarmed with transfers and effectively have wasted the past year.

Unlocking Balmung doesn't necessarily mean that everything has to be unlocked. They can lock transfers, and limit character creation (like they already do on some of the other big servers).

And even then, unlocking it doesn't mean that everyone will swarm back to the server, considering that didn't happen when Gilgamesh was unlocked.

Except maybe the recent census that was just posted showing balmung at 22k active players. The closest server to that IIRC is 16k.(sure its not by SE, but if your "facts" are legit then so is the census"

Yea, im thinking balmung needs to stay locked.

You're looking at the wrong column in the recent census. The 22,562 numbers is from the previous census. The current top 5 is Balmung (21,507), Leviathan (19,250), Cactuar (18,339), Omega (17,863), and Louisoix (17,733).
However, if you look at the amount of characters at lvl 70, Balmung and Leviathan are even closer, at 12,857 to 12,031 characters.

If the net change stays the same, with Balmung losing just over 1k players between the most recent, and the previous census, it should probably be within range of a character creation unlock in the first half of 2018.

Someone Necro'd this thread?? Not against bringing it back but so everyone knows its highly unlikely the OP will respond if even look at this thread. They don't like forums cause to put it balantly they dont like people disagreeing with them.

A thread's discussion can continue without interaction from the OP. It's better to have a single thread talking about the Balmung server lock, than having a new thread about it every week.