You can still keep in touch with your friends via cross world friend lists or Discord. I left Balmung just before SB, and came to Lich because of the NA server move hindering my game in general (the ping was way too high after the move). I found a healthy RP community here and we're having lots of fun. I stayed in touch with my friends over Discord and we talk almost every day still, and play other games together. I even got a house here, something I never would have been able to on Balmung. Honestly, with the deserved reputation Balmung has had for the past year or so, I'm glad to be gone from there, as it only got worse after SB, as my friends tell me. The toxicity, salt and public ERP is disgusting. My new server has been a breath of fresh air. Balmung was bringing the entire data center down since HW. It needed to be locked, and I hope it doesn't open for a very long time, until the population balances out.
