Crystal Datacenter Locked

[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.

[Jojoya]

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.

XIVcensus focuses on max level characters. The all characters data is going to include trial characters and bots as well. Balmung has been on the Congested status the most over the years so it would make sense it would have the lowest overall characters created.

Lucky Bancho's census (he does them roughly quarterly) will track characters over level 60 so while closer to accurate, it still doesn't tell the entire story. It's deliberately focusing on characters over level 60 to remove trial characters from the number (which also eliminates most but not all RMT bots). But it also eliminates low level characters belonging to new players who are subscribed.

XIVCensus (last updated start of January as of this post): https://ffxivcensus.com/

Lucky Bancho's census spreadsheet (most recent update Dec 31st): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=627409761

For the Lucky Bancho census, the column to pay attention to is Column N ("this time") which is the current number of characters over level 60.

If you sort that column in descending order, all 8 Crystal worlds are at the top of the list. The Congested worlds on Aether and Primal match the top 3 worlds of each respective data center for level 90 characters (last column on the spreadsheet).

Personally, I'm surprised that SE didn't mark all Aether and Primal worlds congested alongside Crystal but then perhaps that was predicted to cause problems by forcing all bots to also be created on the new worlds. Bots on Dynamis are already pretty high profile because of their number compared to the relatively low player population.

I'm also surprised to see that the EU worlds (other than the 4 new ones) have pushed Tonberry out of the top position for non-NA worlds. Tonberry used to have a substantial advantage in population among the non-NA worlds.

[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.

[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.

[Slayer25c]

Already cannot create characters on Seraph -_-

There 3 other servers on there u can go to

[NanaWiloh]

"And so it begins" -Fable

[SpiritedMare]

And I had just about talked a couple of IRL friends to come join my husband and I on our server, too. Also we were wanting to roll new alts ourselves, since we had just come back from a long hiatus and wanted to see the whole story again. *snaps fingers*

Here's hoping this restriction doesn't stick around for very long at all, I guess!