It's not fair to current players? Screwing over new players is even less fair lol. Everyone currently playing migrates to new servers, guess who suffers most? You can't say "well they don't matter" or "they'll catch up"..no, if current trends will tell you anything, it's resonable most people currently playing are not.

They're locked out for current players FOR NOW simply for the sake of new players it seems like. No matter what you say, moving old players to a brand new server will affect it period. 200k or 100k..doesn't matter, it will have an effect on the new economy if there's say 5k people moving over, that's already a ton of gil flowing around and prices will reflect that. There's a reason they're adjusting the value of the gil and prices on NPCs you know.