Balmung is locked again

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Surprised it was open as long as it was, to be completely honest. Glad I got a full roster of alts just in case I need them for anything.

[Derio]

Considering over 1500 people transferred over in under 20 days which equals to about 30k or more for SE. I would say they might keep this cycle up. Encouraging people to move out each expansion with free transfers and bonuses. Then open the server back up and cash in again.

[Cerbolt]

It lasted a lot longer than I thought it would to be honest.

[NanaWiloh]

*sighs*

And now, to wait for the inevitable stampede of posts about unlocking it and how it isn't fair, and how locking Balmung is ruining the RP community...

*grabs popcorn* Wanna share with me?

Its already begun somone has already posted complaining about the lock

[Atreyu]

It was a good run while it lasted and it most certainly lasted longer than I thought it would. It was by far a fair amount of time for those who truly wanted to get in.

It looks like Balmung's gain was ~6k people in 20 days and ~1,500 of those were paid transfers in.
That is a LOT of people. That's almost an entire small server's worth of active population in under a month, so anyone who claims Balmung is dying, dead or anything of the like is fooling nobody but themselves.

All of my friends who wanted in (either to come back or those who never got the chance before) managed to transfer in from other servers (Zalera, Mateus, etc) so I'm happy as can be!

[Anzaman]

It needed to be done. Shouldn't have unlocked it to begin with tbh.

Kinda inclined to agree with this - pretty much my whole friend-list decided to transfer to Balmung while I was on break.

Got back to game and now I'm all alone on Odin, just tempted to cancel my subscription.

[Skivvy]

That's the reason Balmung got locked again. Each alt that enters the server regardless of where the creator is from is considered "+1" to it's grand population. For every alt that someone within got onto the server, is an added additional "+1" to it's total server population. This means that a single service account can make up a total of plus eight of the population. For every player that took advantage of the situation and created alts, that made Balmung's total population sky rocket. This made Balmung more congested than it originally was having already been the most population server in the game, is now even bigger since players felt they needed more alts on the server.

Looking at the census, Balmung actually has one of the lowest total number of characters created, we just happen to have the largest active playerbase https://ffxivcensus.com/

I could obviously be very wrong, but looking at the census, it doesn't appear that the total number of created characters is really that much of a concern. Even if a person has 8 characters on a single world (on one account), they can still only log in one at a time.