Resolving the Balmung Population Issue at Minimal Cost to the Benefit of All Players

[Verius_Nox]

If you want to keep your half day que, stay there. I know if I couldn't play when I wanted to, I'd hop to a lower pop server and let my friends know via discord Where I went and to join me. (yes, if you are truly "embedded" you'd have contact outside of the game).

You can have contact with people outside the game, and still be embedded. Don't be patronizing. My post was directed at the OP for wanting to force a sub-culture of people to transfer off, when people who would transfer off have already.

I dunno, we left an fc house with 4 rank 50 airships behind, as well as friends and the like. But we dealt with it rather than spend half the day complaining on the forums while sitting in queue. The people of Balmung created the problem they face, by telling everyone "oh, just create a character and transfer it over 3 days later, thats how you bypass the character creation locks!"

The queue doesn't bother me, I'm not complaining about them, because it goes away after a week or two of every expansion launch. It's literally nothing, but whatever other words you want to throw in my mouth, go for it.

[DreadRabbit]

I've been reading about this both here and on the Hydaelyn roleplayers forums and I truly do not believe SE designating an RP server is going to solve the problem (not by itself anyway). The issue is that the people on the RP forums are almost too nice and considerate to make a set choice.

Balmung did not get its reputation and popularity because SE told people to go there. Balmung got its reputation because we, the players, told everyone else to go there. Go google search "FFXIV which server should I join" and comb through the results. For years, and even some entries in 2017 before the complete lockdown, people essentially said "If you're in NA and like to raid, go to Gilgamesh. If you like RP or are casual, you should go to Balmung." Guess what happened?

The players have to do that again for another server. SE can and should probably put a label on the servers, and that will help with initial server traffic. But if a community is to be built, on say, Mateus (that's the big one I keep seeing around as one with potential) then it's the players that will have to take the reigns at that point. From now on when people ask "Which server should I join?" start telling people the servers you guys have picked.

Pick a server or two. Make a thread here, tell people on the FFXIV Reddit (even ask the mods there to help keep it pinned for a few weeks or something), and even the groups on Tumblr. Get the word-of-mouth going. That will go towards building a new RP server far more than waiting on SE to slap a label there. Yes it's hard work that nearly no one wants to do, but all you have to do is come up with a server name. Pick a name, let the internet telephone game do the rest for you. You're going to have to do this anyway if SE makes the decision and also decides to accept transfer money again to Balmung once expansion hype dies down.

[Xieveral]

Exactly. Not only free transfers, but also chocobo feathers and millions of free gil.

The incentives are hardly worth it if you're a homeowner. Unless they can guarantee you a house on the new server or implement a way to move your housing over. This is what I'm holding out for.

[Centershock]

The people of Balmung created the problem they face, by telling everyone "oh, just create a character and transfer it over 3 days later, thats how you bypass the character creation locks!"

Yeah, no. See quote below.

Uh, no, they accepted money for a service that compounded their server's congestion issue. Their business model, thus their fault for the results that followed.

SE is wholly at fault for this. They ALLOWED people to do it in the first place. They willingly took people's $18 to transfer to Balmung. KNEW this was a problem, otherwise they'd have left Balmung completely open and never imposed a character creation lock. If it was such a huge problem, logic would dictate that they'd have done this transfer lockout WAY BACK WHEN instead of doing it just now.

Why did so many people transfer here? It's not just because it's an RP server or it's casual-friendly whatever else. I think a major factor is because there's always something going on 24/7. I mean, I could be on at 2 am PST and see PF's for EX trials or Alex Creator Savage.

But please. Continue to blame the playerbase when all they want is to not be in small servers and be able to play with their friends. And be able to indulge in RP if they want. It's so easy to blame other people whey don't have this problem in the first place.

[jameseoakes]

Yeah, no. See quote below.



SE is wholly at fault for this. They ALLOWED people to do it in the first place. They willingly took people's $18 to transfer to Balmung. KNEW this was a problem, otherwise they'd have left Balmung completely open and never imposed a character creation lock. If it was such a huge problem, logic would dictate that they'd have done this transfer lockout WAY BACK WHEN instead of doing it just now.

Why did so many people transfer here? It's not just because it's an RP server or it's casual-friendly whatever else. I think a major factor is because there's always something going on 24/7. I mean, I could be on at 2 am PST and see PF's for EX trials or Alex Creator Savage.

But please. Continue to blame the playerbase when all they want is to not be in small servers and be able to play with their friends. And be able to indulge in RP if they want. It's so easy to blame other people whey don't have this problem in the first place.

You can't really blame SE for this, the problems with Balmung have been visible on this forum for a long time and people still kept pushing that to do anything in the game you need to be on Balmung and telling people how to get round the restrictions, especially now you have cross worlds PF so you can join those groups on any server.