Quote Originally Posted by Rokke View Post
I don't think it would matter now even if they made an official rp server anymore. The problem with balmung is that people are so rooted in their communities. With all the incentives, the main one being a better chance at a house, we only lost a couple thousand at 4.0, and around half of those people have already been "replaced" by returning players (25k @pre-lock -> 21k @4.0 -> 23k @current).

The ghost town servers finally have some semblance of a population, a new DC full of new servers (RP or no) would be overkill.
They did not do enough intensives soon enough. They really need a new server with a RP label on it, I am sure people will move. People moved to
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ghlight=Mateus
and took all the housing and i wasn't enough apparently as it seemed they filled fast.

It is not "overkill" when they completely lock out 2 servers from making new characters on it.

Quote Originally Posted by Pence View Post
Please elaborate, I'd love to see how adding a new data center would fix population balance, RP or housing.
um... I thought it was obvious? There isn't enough room for the housing shortage so we need a new server. How come EU got one but we didn't?