Petition to Lift Balmung Server Lock / Impact of Server Lock on FFXIV RP Community

[MistakeNot]

Probably when i'm dead. ;-; I think my issue is, its very hard to recruit or meet new people when there are no new people on the server. It also does stagnate roleplay.

There might not be any new people on the server - but I bet there are lots of people on the server that you have never interacted with in the past and who thus would be new to you.

[MistakeNot]

You are getting more RP in an EU server because you are from EU (like myself), which doesn't mean that RP doesn't need a central hub. In fact, Omega has been chosen as the EU central hub, and I suspect that's why you might find enough RP there.

Yes, of course that is why I find more RP there, and why I transferred there in the first place.
Omega (and Mateus) would not have been chosen as additional (unofficial) RP servers unless Balmung had been locked though - before that there was not enough interest in establishing additional RP hubs.

[Derio]

I just want it unlocked to see the flock of people spending all that money to move back only to get the server locked again. And then see people cry about it here on the forums again.

Thats why they need to unlock Balmung.

[Alien_Gamer]

In any case, to everyone else, why is it that people who want Balmung open are causing you such distress? There's a lot of "oh gods not again" drama, simply because this is a matter that doesn't affect you at all, and thus you don't want to hear about it?

SE stated why Balmung was being closed and what it would take to reopen when they closed it. In general, those who are asking for it are taking the view point of they don't care/don't believe SE and just want it reopened anyway regardless of any ill effects it would have. They also tend to drive their statements with hyperbole like "Balmung is dead/dying"...when its not. Its changing and shrinking but not dying, there is a large difference there.

The OP in this thread is so over the top illogical and closed off to any other view beyond his own that this thread itself is almost comical in nature. That and this is the 3rd thread about it for Balmung in a couple days on top of the several Gilgamesh had going that people are just tired of seeing new threads about it; nothing has changed, nothing has been updated, if someone really needs to comment on the situation they should discuss it in an existing thread.

Its a simple problem with a simple solution but the OP and others asking for Balmung to be reopened just don't seem to get it.

[kikix12]

In any case, to everyone else, why is it that people who want Balmung open are causing you such distress? There's a lot of "oh gods not again" drama, simply because this is a matter that doesn't affect you at all, and thus you don't want to hear about it?

If a kids pet dies, it dies. No matter how much he comes crying to his parents that he wants them to revive his Poochie, Poochie cannot be revived. All they can do is buy him a new pet to replace Poochie, but he doesn't want to. So whenever they are out, he screams at the top of his lungs that he wants Poochie back and that they are horrible because they don't want to bring it up. And he decided that there is no proof that Poochie cannot be revived and that they are just lying.

As a bystander, even though I'm not the one directly affected by it, after some point if I came across that kid and his parents often enough I'd get pissed. Not because the kid got a problem that, to him, is huge, but because he cannot understand the fact of the matter being impossible.


Balmung is locked due to server limitations. It is IMPOSSIBLE to solve, except by completely scrapping the server, transfer data from it to a much "fiercer beast" and run that up. But not only are there inherent technological limitations to that, it also costs a WHOLE lot. At the point that we're talking about, 10% increase in performance can increase the cost by 50% or more. Way more. It is far more efficient to just buy multiple other servers to share the burden.

As such, it's not that the original poster have a problem. It's about him being part of the problem. He may not mean it and no one told him that...but that doesn't change the fact.

[jarlmcqueen]

It's detrimental to the server population when you have to wait hours to log in to play the game when content drops.

[Fhaerron]

OP should obviously go sit in a corner and eat a Snickers.

Bad joke? I'll see myself out now.

Was a good joke!

[Oaken]

Unfortunately, I lack the time to solo a dozen or so uniformed, disinterested internet forum heros who regurgitate tautological arguments and show blind, lemming-like deference to SE's undisclosed business decisions, and who are so unfamiliar with the mechanics and structure of the RP community that they can't begin to even understand how a server lock impacts the RP community.

Reasonable people who can think for themselves are not content to believe a proposition without evidence. At the end of the day, there is no evidence of that Balmung's current population levels are detrimental or excessive. There are no queues or technical issues. The lock is causing stagnation and fragmenting FFXIV's RP community into increasingly isolated communities that will accelerate stagnation. Pointing to a decision made six months ago by your benevolent technocrat under a completely different set of circumstances and declaring your blind loyalty to that technocrat proves nothing other than your own ignorance.

These arguments have been made and repeated several times, and there are simply better things to do than address the same flawed thinking.

[CaTi]

These arguments have been made and repeated several times, and there are simply better things to do than address the same flawed thinking.

This is the truth people. there are better things to do than address OP's flawed thinking.

And please stop using the thesaurus to pad your posts OP. It's not actually doing you any favours.

[MistakeNot]

At the end of the day, there is no evidence of that Balmung's current population levels are detrimental or excessive.

The evidence is that SE has closed Balmung - something they would not have done without reason.
SE could of course be wrong about the need to keep Balmung closed - but it is a fact that they have access to much more information about the actual population levels and about how much load the servers can handle than you or I have.

Additional evidence is that keeping servers closed mean that SE are losing out on the transfer fees of people willing to pay to transfer to Balmung - few companies will refuse money without good reason.