Hi all, i actually had a few questions regarding this for some time now and have been reluctant to bring it up due to the locks causing an uproar but i thought it would be a good time to ask as 4.2 is right around the corner.

Balmung player population atm under https://ffxivcensus.com/#realmactive registers 13,767 characters active as of now. With that in mind i have noticed most if not all of the highest active populated NA servers reside on the Aether Datacenter.

Balmung is still locked out, that has not changed.

With that in mind however, this is where my curiosity comes into play. Leviathan registers as 12,741 active characters and has no lock what so ever. Even new characters can be made on the server, though it is located on the Primal Datacenter.

So to the question then, In terms of World Distribution and lockout. Is it purely based on the world? or the overall population of the Datacenter?