Crystal Datacenter Locked

[Eshura]

Is this just for the new housing lottery dash? Every world server can't be as jam-packed as Balmung... I'm paying multiple characters on one server and can't make any (that's been an issue on Balmung forever though).

[LaylaTsarra]

All of crystal is currently in a congested status. Can't make new characters anywhere. I think we are going to see more and more of that as they add data centers and new servers. The idea is to balance populations.

[Eshura]

That seems unlikely to me, but then I don't have access to their server census either... sounds more like they just locked it to force people to go elsewhere.

[Amarande]

I think we are going to see more and more of that as they add data centers and new servers. The idea is to balance populations.

Yeeeeep. And sadly I expect it to work poorly.

If anything, it was Aether that should have been locked, especially with the culture norm having so rapidly become "everybody have fun tonight, everybody Aether tonight ..." if you actually want to DF with decent queue times (FWIW, on Dynamis, it seems to be 11ish minute advertised queues for EW casual content. As White Mage. I can only imagine what it's like for the poor DPS), or if you want to PF at all - in fact, exactly what I feared would happen with DC visit (just like with World visit, the player culture becomes forcibly dominated by the most hardcore datacenter).

We've probably hit the WoW peak, and managing server population at that point is impossible ("balancing" actually backfires later on in the game's lifecycle, since as the smaller servers' population wanes people transfer more and more to the largest servers, leaving most of the smaller ones as noob traps. At least DC and World visit is a thing here, unlike many games where all you can do at that point is restart or pay a pretty penny to transfer off ... conveniently, of course, such servers are universally "recommended" by MMO operators for new players, LOL).

[Renalt]

Yeah I got lucky when I was able to transfer Renalt from Faerie to Balmung. I have alts I would like to make there but it seems like it won't happen for a long time. Might make my alt characters on one of each Data Center. I can always DC/World Visit if needed.

[Skivvy]

So the funneling to Dynamis has begun!

[Kewitt]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/

[Hasrat]

While I'd entirely agree there's some element of directing players to the new DC, I also wouldn't be too shocked if the populations here might be just a little higher than average. Prior to DC travel, having a Crystal character would be the only means of getting to hang out on Balmung.

[DixieBellOCE]

That seems unlikely to me, but then I don't have access to their server census either... sounds more like they just locked it to force people to go elsewhere.

Check out xivcensus, just google it and you will find the population data.

Balmung actually has the lowest overall population on NA of characters of all levels.

NA realms are all over 20k endgame players (players that have completed the achievement 'endwalker') , with Gilgamesh being just over 25k.

The new servers have much lower populations, so its find that they are locking older DC's and letting people migrate to the new ones, DC travel lets you go anywhere after all.

[EstelleCere]

I wonder how long this would take, i assumed it was cause of the new patch and things would level out eventually. Not saying i was trying to get into crystal though, i was trying to get onto jenova but had to settle for siren at the moment since jenova got locked.