Quote Originally Posted by FoxyAreku View Post
I get they're trying to be well prepared, but this might be a bit much. Hopefully everything goes back to normal after the 28th. Finally got a friend to try the game and this might have turned him off again lol.
I have the feeling this is less about "being prepared" and more about SE trying to force new players to populate Crystal. Every time I went to the world status pages, Aether and Primal were all evenly distributed between congested (Gilga/Cactuar/Leviathan), standards with the occasional lock on characters because of people online (Faerie, Sargatanas, Siren, Hyperion, Behemoth) and the others fluctuated between being standards with or without locks. For the last couple of months pretty much all Aether and Primal servers were having lockouts on character creation during peak hours.

Then you look at Crystal and it seems like people there only ever cared about Balmung and Mateus, while Primal and Aether had a better server population balance on them.
Even now as I'm writing this the only congested server on Crystal is Balmung, with plenty of prefferred and standards.
I guess people just didn't like Crystal for some reason, and now SE is basically forcing everybody to either move out of Aether/Primal if they want to play with new player friends, or be stuck on your home server as is.