(09-15-2016, 03:49 PM)Cassandra Wrote:(09-15-2016, 11:51 AM)Graeham Wrote: I've said this before but the developers really should just acknowledge that certain realms - such as Balmung - deserve special treatment. That may seem unfair to some but...let's be honest here: Balmung is almost always going to be very busy for as long as the game exists. I believe some of the other bigger servers out there are also consistently busy.
I suspect the reason they don't is because they hope to encourage less people from transferring off other servers to Balmung and Gilgamesh. Blocking transfers as a whole could backfire, since people may up and quit if they wanted those particular servers for whatever reason. Making it slightly inconvenient though won't drive them fully away.
It boggles the mind why they decided to allow people who own houses to also buy apartments.
My guess is that housing is tied directly into the release of their server software. Naturally, we can't look at that. But if they had to have special builds only for certain servers, it'd make maintenance a nightmare. Never let there be multiple versions of your software be out there in the open. (When versioning matters with features). ...then again, China and Korea have their own, but SE also isn't running those servers. They're just licensing their software/client.
RE:Why can someone buy them all? Because SE probably isn't coding for the largest server. They're likely coding for the medium or average server out there where most of these resources aren't 100% maxed out within minutes. The housing craze is really only this insane on Balmung and a couple other servers, but mostly Balmung. It'd be nice if they made exceptions.
SE honestly should be blocking transfers when they say creation is locked. Their website even states that people aren't supposed to be able to transfer onto a closed server, although we see it happening all the time. (Otherwise all the gil farmer bots would be dead by now). The only way I can really see them trying to solve this eventually is to offer free transfers OFF an overcrowded server. At least until the populations would stabilize a bit.
