Balmung re-opened

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Speaking as someone who has been on Balmung the whole time, the server handled it amazingly well.

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There was just so much energy and positivity, at least when I was last logged in. Plenty of people shouting "welcome newbies and welcome home returners" in world chat, a good number of FCs were openly recruiting. It was nice to see.

I made my Balmung Moolge-Lala, So I'm happy now

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

I second this. I created an alt on Zalera, be it for transfer or a foothold if I got my alts on Balmung directly, and Ul'dah in its entirety was just barren. It was so jarring and unwelcoming.

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Made a character on Balmung this morning around 9:30 EST and there were more people in the Quicksand alone than in all of Ul’dah on Zalera. :(

We have housing plots out the wazoo, at least. From what I saw, everything on Balmung is already spoken for (no surprise).

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Originally Posted by Kazgrel

Made a character on Balmung this morning around 9:30 EST and there were more people in the Quicksand alone than in all of Ul’dah on Zalera. :(

We have housing plots out the wazoo, at least. From what I saw, everything on Balmung is already spoken for (no surprise).

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Yeah but most of the people on Balmung are AFK on Balmung :P

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Yeah but most of the people on Balmung are AFK on Balmung :P

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True, about half the folks in there were afk. :p

Piles of sprouts, though, even by preferred world standards,where seeing sprouts out in the world is very common compared to my tenure on Balmung, which could be summed up with “what’s a sprout?”

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Originally Posted by Kazgrel

True, about half the folks in there were afk. :p

Piles of sprouts, though, even by preferred world standards,where seeing sprouts out in the world is very common compared to my tenure on Balmung, which could be summed up with “what’s a sprout?”

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Balmung Sprouts = Alts that never completed the story to the point where the sprout was lost. :p

I'm so happy to see new folk on Balmung. All so friendly. I hope they stay.

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Originally Posted by SicariusSeven

I'm so happy to see new folk on Balmung. All so friendly. I hope they stay.

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I'm sure quite a few people will stay on Balmung (especially those who came back) out of fear of another lock.

I finally had some time to log into my Balmung character yesterday. Ul'dah was really amazing to look at. If I were not bound to European datacenters due to latency issues, I'd be switching realms for sure, and probably be overcoming my 'fear' of roleplaying in a foreign language I don't feel as confident as in my native one.

Good grief that's a lot of bots @_@;