Quote Originally Posted by Goemoe View Post
Congested is NOT useful, if you already have chars on your main server. Am I allowed to join my guild with a char from another server? No I am not. I see, why it is useful to prevent server transfers to congested servers, but making new chars, where you already belong is a kick in the face.

But there are way to few servers anyway. In Europe from currently 36 server only 4 are accessable at any given time. I check the serverstatus many times a day and never you are allowed to use 32 out of 36 servers. This system is simply pissing off new players. I am checking this often to get parts of my family to my server, which currently is not possible. If we could move a whole guild with all alts to a less populated server for free, well... but we can't. Currently congested worlds stops friends/families from long term fun. Always jumping worlds is not fun. I even told a friend not to start FFXIV, because of this. We talked about it, he plays something else now.

"Hey, wanna play FFXIV with me?"
"Cool, what server are you on?"
"[name any, it does not matter currently], which you can't join. But you can join me there with world jumps. Play on any free one"
"hm... can I join your guild there?"
"No"
"Well... perhaps another day then"
NA is actually even worse, out of 4 DC's, only 1 is open, it's their latest trick to force people to create a character on a dead DC, they know it'll die the second they open travel and transfer, but in the meantime, they can pretend that the DC is alive since all the people on the other 3 DC's have to travel to the new one to play with their friends. And then the people on Dynamis which is the new NA DC will have to use a paid transfer to the actually well populated DC's.

It's smart, and as usual, the community sits and never complains.

Congestion on NA was gone by week 1, why is it still in place at this point ? I wish those defending the DC travel lock could respond to this.

The community will gladly make a ruckus worth 500 pages about Wuk Lamat (which I agree with btw) but stays silent when they are unable to play with their friends or family, it's insane to me.