Question about Balmung.

[SorrowsEnd]

Considering it being the most popular server out of every server currently its something clearly special and nothing but hoping the community leaves isn't fixing it and will not fix it and needs something else to be done. How people cannot see that blows my mind and how they can defend SE for allowing it to get so big,locking the servers without stating it to anybody, 6months go by and nothing has happened and no word from the dev team i'm at a loss. I didn't want another 14 page issue on the matter but just some of the responses you people give is just mind blowing.

[Avatre]

nothing but hoping the community leaves isn't fixing it and will not fix it and needs something else to be done. How people cannot see that blows my mind and how they can defend SE for allowing it to get so big,locking the servers without stating it to anybody, 6months go by and nothing has happened and no word from the dev team i'm at a loss. I didn't want another 14 page issue on the matter but just some of the responses you people give is just mind blowing.

You want SE to fix it? They will take X amount of the population, and say "Welcome to your new home, no going back for X days" and have them FORCEFULLY transferred to another server. That is how it will end up going.

They offered incentives for people to transfer OFF before Stormblood and they locked it so it wouldn't go so far out of proportion that it caused the ENTIRE data center to collapse in on itself. Maybe they can limit it to one character per ACCOUNT to be on that server, give anyone with multiple characters there 30-days to remove all but one, and if they don't they will make the decision. But, oh wait, you want your cake, with ice cream, and get to eat it to.

[SorrowsEnd]

No they dont need to do that again they need to fix the servers so it can hold the current people and more, do an entire server overhaul so these servers from what seems like 1.0 be actually 4.0 and your damn right I want my ice cream and I wanna share it with my friends.

[Vidu]

No they dont need to do that again they need to fix the servers so it can hold the current people and more, do an entire server overhaul so these servers from what seems like 1.0 be actually 4.0 and your damn right I want my ice cream and I wanna share it with my friends.

Why do the servers need to be able to hold more people than they're currently able to hold when there is still space on some less populated servers? It makes no sense at all to spend money on upgrading server-capacity as long as there are servers that arent terribly overpopulated. And there are. Basically every server except Balmung.
You wouldnt buy a a third external harddrive for your PC until the current ones are all stuffed up, would you?

[KaivaC]

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Oh trust me, some of the responses you've been giving are blowing the minds of 'us people' as well. I doubt Square anticipated that Balmung would get as big as it is, and even before completely locking the server they did try to mitigate the growing size with restricting character creation there. That didn't really curtail the issue, so it was locked. Which has been said multiple times, but you coming here and pouting like a child because you aren't getting your way is mind blowing. I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but with your responses, all I can tell you at this point is to:

Deal. With. It.

Balmung's lock is not going to kill FFXIV - it is not the end all, be all server. Either your friends make an alt on Zalera, or you guys continue doing cross-world and maybe hang out elsewhere like discord.

[MistakeNot]

Considering it being the most popular server out of every server currently its something clearly special and nothing but hoping the community leaves isn't fixing it and will not fix it and needs something else to be done. How people cannot see that blows my mind and how they can defend SE for allowing it to get so big,locking the servers without stating it to anybody, 6months go by and nothing has happened and no word from the dev team i'm at a loss. I didn't want another 14 page issue on the matter but just some of the responses you people give is just mind blowing.

The reason Balmung is/was popular is simply because it was the biggest server. Yes, many people went there only because it was the biggest server.
It's also the main unofficial RP server which drew RPers there, but they are a minority of the population.

Your mind getting blown by the responses here says far more about your mind than the responses......