No, the article says it is locked now. I can forgive people being confused, because it took me two or three read-throughs to comprehend this, but I'll try to explain.
Here I will use two separate concepts: character login (accessing the game on a given server through a character that's already on that server), and character addition (placing a new character onto that server by way of transfer or character creation).
The timeline is essentially:
• On the 20th June, they will be adding new EU servers, with bonuses to incentivise people adding characters to them (by transfer or creation).
• On the 20th June, they will be restricting login for high pop servers, i.e. throttling the number of people able to log in to the World at once. This is nothing to do with addition of new characters to the server (by transfer or creation).
• Because they want to reduce the number of players affected by this login restriction, by increasing the proportion of players who are on servers not affected by the login restriction...
• ... AS OF RIGHT NOW, as a preventative measure for login congestion on the 20th, they have begun preventing ANY new characters from being added to the server BY ANY METHOD (either transfer or creation). You will note the sections regarding transfer and creation are written in the past tense.
• FURTHERMORE, they are adding some incentives for people to transfer away (i.e. raised gil cap).
• This is a measure intended to ensure that between now and 20th June, the population on the overpopulated servers can ONLY GO DOWN.
Here I will use two separate concepts: character login (accessing the game on a given server through a character that's already on that server), and character addition (placing a new character onto that server by way of transfer or character creation).
The timeline is essentially:
• On the 20th June, they will be adding new EU servers, with bonuses to incentivise people adding characters to them (by transfer or creation).
• On the 20th June, they will be restricting login for high pop servers, i.e. throttling the number of people able to log in to the World at once. This is nothing to do with addition of new characters to the server (by transfer or creation).
• Because they want to reduce the number of players affected by this login restriction, by increasing the proportion of players who are on servers not affected by the login restriction...
• ... AS OF RIGHT NOW, as a preventative measure for login congestion on the 20th, they have begun preventing ANY new characters from being added to the server BY ANY METHOD (either transfer or creation). You will note the sections regarding transfer and creation are written in the past tense.
• FURTHERMORE, they are adding some incentives for people to transfer away (i.e. raised gil cap).
• This is a measure intended to ensure that between now and 20th June, the population on the overpopulated servers can ONLY GO DOWN.
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