
Originally Posted by
HokujinDoujin
This needs to go. Locking down a server for weeks, or even months at a time makes it impossible to play with your friends. "Your friends can roll on a different server and transfer over to play," is nice but has completely gutted Free Companies. And those with active Free Companies cannot recruit new players because they're on Congested servers, and those without active Free Companies cannot find them, because they're on low pop servers. You cannot fix this by telling players, "no, do not play with your friend, play on one of these smaller servers instead." No one is going to do that. Even with free transfers, Balmung, Mateus, Faerie, remain locked near year around. All it does is make the game unnecessarily frustrating.
Few years back, you could reliably make a new character or transfer over to a big pop server, so long as you did it outside peak hours. Now your only chance to roll on a server where your friends play, as a new or returning player, or simply someone who has made friends with a group on another server, is to wait for weeks, or even months, for the transfer window to reopen. It stinks. And now with servers getting shut for even visiting, you've turned what was a functional if unnecessarily complicated system into something that causes nothing but frustration.
You have had years to fix this. WoW doesn't have these issues. ESO doesn't have these issues. These are entirely self-made issues on your end. Fix your game. We've been patient. My patience, as an 11 year veteran of FFXIV, has nearly worn out.
Thank you.