Suggestion: Turn Balmung into an Official RP Server

[Abriael]

We need to NOT label Balmung as the Official RP Server. That's throwing gasoline onto a grease fire with a couple of sticks of uranium for good measure of lethality.

Not really. The overwhelming majority of the RP community is already on Balmung, and will always be. There isn't much gasoline left.

We need RP'ers to acknowledge a new server as the Unofficial RP Server, because Square has stated several times they have no intent of adding labels to their servers, and would prefer the community of players to determine that for themselves. Rather than constantly bothering SE about this like parsers, we just need RP'ers to pick another server and move on. Balmung had its time, and it'll never truly die, but NOW is the time to get in on the ground-level in building a new RP community.

There's been a pretty strong and active campaign to have RP'ers gather on Mateus as our new unofficial RP server. Polls have been taken across various websites and tumblr and what have you. If you really want to support RP and the RP community, it's time to move off of Balmung.

If you think those incredibly low numbers show any concerted intent of the RP community to move to Mateus, I see a lot of naivety there. All Mateus will accomplish is to slightly splinter the RP community, with the overwhelmingly vast majority remaining on Balmung. It's simply gonna be another Gilgamesh, which will die off as soon as the Stormblood push levels out.

At this stage, it would be much easier (although still challenging) to incentivize non-RPers to move off balmung, because the majority of the RP community won't budge after 4 years on one server just because a few people tell them to.