Will Balmung ever open again?

[Helenii]

First of all, if I break any rules, I'm sorry, this is my first post in the forums.

I'm a new user so I don't really know how the congested world thing works but, how long does it usually take for a server to get out of the "congested" status? I was very disappointed to learn that I can't play on Balmung, and I was wondering how long will it take until I'll be able to.

[linay]

It depends on if space becomes available. Balmung was opened temporarily at least three times last year that I can recall.

[NekoNova]

Please don't open Balmung, we've been working so hard to contain "Balmungities" to their server.
Please do not spread it.
It's not good for you :P

[Antonio_Xul]

You will be able to travel there soon with the world visiting thing they are adding.

[Senn]

I don't know if it'll open any time soon, but since you're on goblin, you'll share the same data center as balmung. You'll be able to visit that server. If you're still wanting to transfer to a populated rp server, I think the next best option would be maetus, which will also be on the same data center as balmung.

[Helenii]

Please don't open Balmung, we've been working so hard to contain "Balmungities" to their server.
Please do not spread it.
It's not good for you :P

LOL that made me laugh, thanks haha. I wish I could drop it but I honestly just want to RP with my only friend in FFXIV lol, but I guess I'll have to be patient.

[BillyKaplan]

Please don't open Balmung, we've been working so hard to contain "Balmungities" to their server.
Please do not spread it.
It's not good for you :P

You realize people can transfer out of Balmung, right? Thus spreading it. And with world transfer coming soon, people won't be able to visit so long as we're still congested, but you can bet we'll be visiting outside of it...
Quarantine only works so long as not only do things not go in, but things also don't come out...

[Cidel]

Don't lose hope. In the week of JP's Fanfest lots of people supposedly said they were quitting/unsubbing over not getting male Vieras for ShB. Server space should open up in the near future, maybe?

[LaylaTsarra]

I suspect it will open soon given there will most likely be quite a few transfers when free transfers open up after the server reorganization. There are many who aren't happy to be moving to Crystal and will be staying with Aether. Just give it a little time given the server transfers are pretty soon, next week I believe.

[Helenii]

Thank you so much, everyone! You gave me a glim of hope I will continue leveling my character to get it ready ^^