Thoughts From Ex-Balmung Players?

So looking through the never-ending and ever-growing number of threads on Balmung, I felt like a thread with a higher level of credibility was required....I know, not exactly the best place for it, but oh well.

What I'm more curious about are the views from players that were on Balmung for some amount of time and have left to another server as well as whatever reason(s) those players had for leaving. Honestly couldn't care less about the thoughts of players either still on Balmung or who have never been there but hate on it because they can (because those threads are still going here), just want the opinions here of those who were there, but no longer.

You're probably going to get a mixed bag of responses on the matter. I knew some people who left because their friends were on other servers or because they wanted a competitive market edge on the smaller servers that they couldn't have here. While some others regret moving. I also know a few people who will swear up and down we're the worst server imaginable and that they wish they never joined in the first place. (And a few of those who we here are glad are gone because some were the problem children who got our server a bad rap in the first place.)

I can't comment since I'm still on Balmung, though I have several alts on Mateus and Gilgamesh, but that's generally been my experience in regards to those who left. Still this will be an interesting thread to watch.

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

I am happy to announce that 4.2 will bring a myriad of changes to the world of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, such as the deletion of Balmung. We would like to improve the gaming experience for new players by making the community a more pleasant place to interact in. We also felt that the population for the female Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te was too high, so we decided to tackle the issue at it's source and delete Balmung as well as the players in it.

Please look forward to it!

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You may also want to widen the range and ask roleplayers who created their toons on Gilgamesh when ARR launched instead of Balmung because they didn't want to compete against established players on a Legacy server.

Can't comment directly, as I've been on Balmung since Besaid folded into it, but I will say this. Of the people I've known that left the server during hell queues, there are a good number that regret it and will transfer back the moment it's unlocked. At the same time, a good number have happily dug in on their new server of choice (99% on Matteus), so take it for what you will.

Don't miss it.

I don't regret moving despite paying to get on there in the first place.
It was far too overcrowded for my tastes and I had to leave due to the amazing 9000+ queues of stormblood and the ''never being able to play once I got in'' and being kicked every few minutes by the game. :c
Oh and the servers move made my ping jump up super high so I had to adjust to avoiding aoes seconds before they appeared.
I hope its in a better place now but geez, I do not miss those times.
I definitely don't think its in the right place to be unlocked if the numbers on the census are anything to go by plus I would feel rather salty if they unlocked Balmung before Omega. >:/

I left due to the server congestion, and not being able to play, during SB. In hindsight, I regret it since I haven't been enjoying the game much since leaving.

I played on Balmung since its creation until the real EU servers were created, and that's when we moved with our FC. Haven't missed it even one second (of course, all the people I might miss moved with me). No queues or any server issues and the people have been great for the most part. We also made tons of gil moving servers. :)

I didn't leave Balmung, but the friends who did admitted to have regretted it.

I use to be on Balmung and honestly I do regret it.

I left for personal reasons that I don't feel belong in a thread such as this, but I think at the end of the day I ultimately regret the decision to leave. I realize what I had there was fine and now I struggle to rebuild myself in a server where I know nobody. If I could go back, I probably would unless I manage to improve my new server situation.

A FC mate cannot stop complaining about moving off Balmung, and randomly rants about Balmung was the perfect server. To this day he will not tell us as to why he left, though my guess he thought the server would unlock after 90 days so it would be a temporary thing, and did it for the incentives.

That is just my guess.

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Originally Posted by Awha

A FC mate cannot stop complaining about moving off Balmung, and randomly rants about Balmung was the perfect server. So willing to guess that he regrets his choice.

Though my guess he thought the server would unlock after 90 days so it would be a temporary thing.

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This just falls under the common case of, "I don't realize what I had until it's gone" sort of thing.

Just a curious question, but for those who regret moving from Balmung, would you move back knowing you'll have queue issues on patch days or regular days (I don't know if it's a daily issue) and being booted mid-play because of congestion?

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

This just falls under the common case of, "I don't realize what I had until it's gone" sort of thing.

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Just think of how many people will instantly transfer back to Balmung the moment it's unlocked...

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

Just a curious question, but for those who regret moving from Balmung, would you move back knowing you'll have queue issues on patch days or regular days (I don't know if it's a daily issue) and being booted mid-play because of congestion?

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I would. I would also not buy an expansion again until a month after release to avoid all the headaches.

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Originally Posted by Awha

A FC mate cannot stop complaining about moving off Balmung, and randomly rants about Balmung was the perfect server. To this day he will not tell us as to why he left, though my guess he thought the server would unlock after 90 days so it would be a temporary thing, and did it for the incentives.

That is just my guess.

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Most of the people lost during release when we had the most ridiculous queue times, and of course Balmung being Balmung, it was a gamble whether you'd even stay connected for the 3 hours you were waiting to get in. People were leaving in droves until the hard auto kick was established.

I left for personal reasons and because I got sick of seeing roleplaying literally everywhere.

I've yet to see it ever since I moved, and I'm glad for that.

(I have nothing against roleplayers I just got tired of seeing RP everywhere I went, not my cup of tea and all that.)

I left after the server move, and mostly due to it. The game became almost unplayable for me, as my ping skyrocketed. I'm from EU and was on Balmung since January 2014 until May 2017. I do miss playing with some friends who are still there, but I choose to actually be able to play the game, rather than just pay a monthly sub to RP only (as that was basically the only thing that I could do after the move). I left with a friend who also thought similarly and we played the game together all of the time, so that worked out in the end. I hope some friends may soon follow as Balmung isn't the best place to be RP wise for EU people due to all of the events starting at midnight our time, and I found some neat roleplayers here on Lich.

Do I miss Balmung? I would lie if I said I didn't miss some things. I do have many good memories of it, but In the final few months I got annoyed with it and the consequences of the server move solidified my decision to change server. I didn't even wait for the free transfers and transfer benefits. I paid for the transfer and established myself on Lich before Stormblood dropped and then enjoyed the expansion with new friends.
One of the things I miss the most is seeing RP everywhere I go. This is a smaller server RP wise and it's mostly events that are public. Walk-up RP and random RP in the world is extremely rare. But It's fine, I kinda like this now. I adapted and moved on.

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

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I find it hilarious that your Miqote hate is for the OTHER kind of cat-girls, but not YOUR cat-girls.

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Originally Posted by Xerek

You may also want to widen the range and ask roleplayers who created their toons on Gilgamesh when ARR launched instead of Balmung because they didn't want to compete against established players on a Legacy server.

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I thought about that, but RP hasn't been the only reason why people flock to Balmung. You have players coming for friends, for cheaper prices (side effect of high-pop servers), a better gameplay experience that comes from the level of activity created by high-pop servers, or because they simply have nothing left on their current server.

Also, thank you all to those who have responded and are responding because I believe that this sort of information is something that devs can make better use of than countless "petitions" that won't ever hold water. As for the Balmung residents giving the same "my friend" story, if you could get them to post here so that those stories hold a little more weight, that'd be much appreciated!

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Originally Posted by Clover_Blake

I didn't leave Balmung, but the friends who did admitted to have regretted it.

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I never regretted my decision to leave Balmung behind and went to Odin. I did this back when Leviathan EX was some of the current content though. But man, many players there was more toxic than what I ever had encountered in WOW even. And for some reasons I was even begged to move to ARR when it launched, when I had been on Saronia/Sargatanas all the time I played in 1.0.

I left Balmung after the Stormblood expansion hit due to the outrageous queue times and the free transfer out of congested servers. I had been unsubscribed for nearly a year at that point, so I left very few people behind. The FC I was in was still around, but I only knew one person. With the cross-server party finder and duty finder, I don't feel like I've missed out on anything. I'd leave Balmung again in a heartbeat.

Bonus: On my new server, I stumbed upon an old friend that I knew from XI (thankfully, he was still using the same unique name) that I had lost touch with for ~10 years, and now we do a bunch of stuff together.

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Originally Posted by CosmicKirby

I find it hilarious that your Miqote hate is for the OTHER kind of cat-girls, but not YOUR cat-girls.

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Of course! Dirty trash they are..

I left Balmung but not completely to play on servers I already had houses and characters on. Mateus & Faerie. As soon as the queues died down, I went right back to Balmung. I had transferred from Faerie to Balmung 3 or so years ago. This is also after playing on Siren as well. Honestly there's so much going on here. This is coming from a non-rper and someone a bit recluse. I remember being amazed that I progressed further on an alt in a month's time than I did in 2 YEARS on two small-mid pop severs. I get Balmung isn't very one's cup of tea but to me it just offers so much more than the other servers. Servers I've been on is Jenova, Siren, Mateus, Balmung, Faerie, Gilgamesh, Sargatanas, Cactus. Zalera, & Brynhildr.

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

Just a curious question, but for those who regret moving from Balmung, would you move back knowing you'll have queue issues on patch days or regular days (I don't know if it's a daily issue) and being booted mid-play because of congestion?

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It's not something that happens daily. Everyday you might get really short queues that's less than 20 people but you can get in after the second try. There will never be congestion so being booted out for it won't happen.

Obviously, long queues will happen depending on what a patch brings, one being Housing. Otherwise, you'd get longer but still fairly normal queues.

The 2-4 hour queues and server congestion from SB was just a one-time thing, and It'll happen again when a new expansion comes out.

I don't understand why people bother to talk about certain World? What is the point? I don't think anyone gives a toss about it plus who cares?

It's just another world in this game. Stop making a big deal out of it.

I left the server before the lock simply because at the time, I'd sort of hit that point where I didn't have anything to lose. My RP character died in an event (voluntary OOCly, I accepted the consequences of stupid actions), I had no house (nor hope of getting one), and as for friends, all my RL friends played on other servers, and the in-game ones I could keep into contact with, via Discord. So I decided to go for Mateus. Got myself a house, which was awesome, and joined the growing community of RP'ers over there. I've been pretty happy since then.

Balmung may be large, but there is a strong clique mentality there as well. A few FCs I tried to get into had their recruitment closed, but their enjin/tumblr pages were constantly listing newly recruited people. It was a matter of who you knew. I didn't know anyone, so I was out of luck.