Congested Server Status

[SophiaDL]

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.

This is all done to force people to transfer and for them to get money, that's why the entirety of Aether is closed yet again, funnily enough, right before they shut it all off, Aether was open for transfers, same for Balmung.

This is honestly just about the money, its to force people to transfer and make money off of them, this congestion stuff is also just to pretend that the game is booming with players while it has been going down extremely fast since DT with a massive drop from 1.4m to under 1m players (and probably more, that was for the previous Q, so this one will probably be worse), them removing it would be them admitting that the game's playerbase is dwindling so I doubt they will turn it off anytime soon, they would rather keep this image that the game is full to the brim (which is false, it's basically deceiving players).

Both Dynamis and Materia are also failures, in the case of Dynamis, they've tried everything to try and get people to transfer there, as an old Dynamis resident (this is an alt) I was stuck there for an entire month, people were forced to make characters there at DT launch, the second they opened the gates to transfer to other DC's, a mass exodus happened because no one wanted to be on a dead DC, they really thought that forcing everyone there and making them stuck there unable to DC travel was going to make people want to stay on Dynamis, all it did was convince people like me to get the hell out of there as soon as possible in case they decide to do another "lockdown" and keep us stuck there away from everyone. The idea they had to keep players on Dynamis actually worked agaisnt them and a massive amount of people left the second transfers opened.