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I am going to quote this once more. Of these bonuses, how many fit your incentives for a mass-exodus. They haven't stated their designated worlds yet. What stops you from choosing this option. If they cannot give you everything (ie Housing), will you still stay?

Given Mateus has been going on for nearly-- 4-7 months now?? I think you already are. I'm curious how many people there are though. If you know the majority, I'd still say it's not... what people are looking for. How big is the 'web' so to speak? How large is the network?

Unsurprising. The general populace on the official forums views Balmung's issues as a problem of Balmung's own making.

They most likely are talking about the afk auto-logouts when they talk about the character login restrictions. Which is not at all unexpected.

Type more and edit in your additional words. Edit bypasses the character limit.

With the Lodestone update of this "Preventing Congestion on High Population Worlds", character creation and transfers TO Balmung are now suspended indefinitely. Along with Balmung, transfers to Gilgamesh are also suspended.

It's essentially a job and requires more than just a few tens of people. It also can't rely on just a few because the basics of a community can be found in the basics of an FC which not all FCs thrive and survive.

Oh, indeed. In the space of getting an EU hub as well as an NA secondary, I don't think choosing a totally new space would be a good idea but it's always something to take into consideration.

Any decisions should probably be held off until further announcements about how many and where in regards to Worlds transfers unless the congestion really isn't as bad as some people believe. EU is due for some additional worlds so I assume that some may want to even try for those, irregardless of whether or not I think that is really a good decision or not as you won't be able to see what the health of the world is like.

To add to the OP here's the lodestone link. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/fee198ff2f37cd22f5b138f7672360440abe9651#_ga=2.14455735.1694938568.1495006447-1964040259.1484653876 On the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood on Tuesday, June 20, login restrictions will be put in place on highly populated Worlds which may result in players having difficulty logging in. In light of this, a number of preemptive measures will be taken in order to ensure players have an enjoyable experience playing FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. We will also begin taking steps to encourage an even distribution of active players across all Worlds. Suspension of World Transfers to High Population Worlds Transfers to the following Worlds will be suspended until their active player populations have stabilized. Gaia Bahamut Mana Chocobo Mandragora Shinryu Aether Balmung Gilgamesh Suspension of Character Creation on High Population Worlds Character creation on the following Worlds will be suspended until their active player populations have stabilized. Gaia Bahamut Mana Chocobo Mandragora Shinryu Aether Balmung Gilgamesh Increase to Gil Limit for World Transfers To better accommodate players moving from high population Worlds to low population Worlds, the amount of gil that can be transferred with characters and retainers has been increased as follows (Please note this also applies when transferring to high population Worlds): Players Before: 1 mil to Players after: 10mil Retainers: 100k to 5mil If players are able to transfer characters without problems after these changes, we will consider removing the gil limit on character transfers. Addition of EU Data Center Worlds and Improvements to Population Distribution All Worlds on the EU data center are presently experiencing high levels of player congestion. To resolve this issue, new Worlds will be added at the release of 4.0. Moreover, players who to transfer to or create new characters on designated Worlds across all data centers will receive special bonuses as described below. * Pleased be advised the bonuses planned for implementation are subject to change. Bonuses Transfers to designated Worlds will be free of charge. EXP bonuses will be applied to designated Worlds (up to level 60). Gil and free play time will be awarded to newly created characters that reach a certain level on designated Worlds. EXP bonuses will be applied to newly established Worlds (up to level 60). Gil and free play time will be awarded to newly created characters that reach a certain level on newly established Worlds. For players who own personal housing, we are planning a number of provisions including a reimbursement for the full price of the estate, and compensation for the cost of furnishings which we will add in subsequent updates moving forward. We also plan to accommodate free companies members that plan to move together with or without a free company estate. We thank you for your patience and understanding as we strive to create an enjoyable playing environment for players on all Worlds.

Yes you do because I've quoted the opening post, of which are quotes from the official forums, about the topic of which you would know they do. not. accept. your. complaint. of. <100 ms. ping. I'll do it again for you. Good on you for having less than 100 ms ping. I had over 100 ms ping consistently even while raiding Savage. Not. An. Issue. I played Black Mage on Titan EX just fine. If you had issues, that was not the ping's fault.

You went from Montreal Canada to East Coast to Sacramento to East Coast. Yes the ping will be a tad worse. 3 ms to 75 ms? 75 ms is not that bad lol. Are you seriously complaining about 75ms? Better servers, -newer- servers, better infrastructure. Edit: if you thought the relocation was for pings, you need to re-read.

Uuuh yes. And no, queues aren't World of Warcraft lol affairs. Think with HW (early) release the 'worst' queue time I got was 11 minutes? It's really not that bad. Unless Aether was suffering from login problems. Then that was bad. I'm hoping the server relocation and the constant working on the servers in the 2 years since HW release that we won't see the issues. IE if you weren't constantly bypassing the auto-logout there were times when people couldn't log in for hours. Aka me.

That's actually sorta why they released this some time after the MSQ patches went live and before the patch. So discussions around the Stormblood Theme Video won't be about how it's spoiler-y and focus on threading discussion for the story in the expansion. It's the same with Heavensward theme where it showed 2.55's climax. I really... sorta want to know everything about Fordola and Yotsuyu, the arguably very grey-black to black on the scale of black/white/grey sides in the conflict. Lyse is very much white in that aspect but the Live Letter and 4.0 page indicate just how much we may see from Fordola and Yotsuyu, who are heroes of their own stories. Classic, quality Father-Son Bonding moment. Nothing like good ol' revolution for ya Raubahn and Pipin! I think I'm pretty queer enough to not need to say this but. I'm so fucking gay. Step on me Yotsuyu. Are these the Azim Steppes Au Ra bird mounts (similar to how Griffins are more Ala Mhigan) or are they more Doman? Did the Prince do something special to call them in (both Au Ra group and the birds)? Please no. Why is Urahara here?

... there's a few 'spoilers' in there if you want to discuss the Stormblood Theme. lol

It's semantics but it's actually a day of subscription for ALL players as all players are affected for the long period (24 hours) for what is an issue that is 'supposed' to only affect NA players.

Monday, May 22, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. (PDT) Show Details Information related to FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Using live gameplay, Yoshi-P will showcase and discuss details regarding the job action changes following the battle system adjustments! As the show will be filled to the brim with new details, dedicated question gathering prior to the broadcast will not be held this time. However, we will be monitoring the #XIVLive hashtag on Twitter during the show. [link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ka3PwPa1JI]You Tube[/link] Live ([link=http://sqex.to/44a]http://sqex.to/44a[/link]) Niconico Live (http://sqex.to/etW) Twitch (http://sqex.to/htj)

Figures. When has this game given hopes for players to earn what they want? Amount of inventory space and Armory Chest space they are giving is pretty small for a "huge" data transfer to another place. I am just taking a grain of salt from this news. Did you actually read the forum post quote I put in the OP? There's a few good, major reasons for this relocation and upgrade.

That's not happening at all lol

Reminder that this is HAPPENING!!! in less than a week. Make sure your gardens aren't going to be affected!!

Except the White Mage symbol is upside down. That's rather interesting. Well it would look odd for a rapier to point down?

I am dumb. Only just realized that the RDM symbol is literally a cross mix of WHM and BLM

Lalafell barely ever make it into the cutscenes. In fact, I feel like I've not seen one except for seeing them as the 'specials' like job characters/adventurers ?

Better benchmark video. 3_JxY2pRHn4