Quote Originally Posted by Oscura View Post
Notice your own post to your poll shows 84 in Balmung's favor to 14 for Gilgamesh. The difference is staggering. Even if you were to somehow increase those numbers based on scale, the amount of roleplayers who play on Gilgamesh in this hypothetical is 16% of those that roleplay on Balmung. Now take into account the fact that the lifespan of roleplaying on Gilgamesh hardly even lasted to make any meaningful impact on the server or actually make a mark. If you ask the average player of Gilgamesh or even the average player period, no one associates Gilgamesh with roleplaying. This is not ignorance, it's simply because roleplaying is almost non-existent here. You being on Balmung even proves my point, which is that the whole "Gilgamesh as a RP server," thing didn't last very long. Even if you were never here or moved in the first place.

The small numbers on the poll also ultimately show that anything regarding Gilgamesh being bloated because of roleplay is either hearsay or purely anecdotal, because FFXIV-roleplayers is a minority of a minority. Forum posters on the official forums are already a minority, what do you think forum posters on a fansite are? I'm just posting in reply that Gilgamesh has NOTHING to do with Balmung and roleplayer's gripes with no official roleplay server, and to not pretend that our server became bloated because of roleplayers or that roleplaying had any substantial influence on the state of our server. It's just false information and you're pushing your agenda. Even if you read those forums posts they're from before the game even launched and far, far before Gilgamesh had a large or bloated population. Gilgamesh only started to become a problem around the era of second coil, and at that point most roleplayers had left Gilgamesh. So yes, hearsay.
*sigh*

http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthr...ight=Gilgamesh

"What's less normal and expected is that now that the vote is behind us and we have two official (well official for the RPC, still non official for Squeenix) servers, people still fight over which is "best". Every time a new player comes around and asks, you see people trying to pull them one side or the other."

Look, you want to put your head in the sand and claim Gilgamesh was never picked as a sister server to Balmung, that's your call. Doesn't change what actually happened. Saying Gilgamesh didn't bloat because of RPers is akin to saying the moon landing didn't happen. I've provided the site and multiple links. I was there when it happened. >.<

Oh, found the actual poll selecting Greg...

http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthr...ight=Gilgamesh