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

[SilverObi]

Maybe, but the people that did stay for FC/friends always seem to have an alt (or three) on Mateus. Kind of says a lot about Balmung; not pleasant things, either.

Not really unless you have some kind of bias. Balmung just has a lot of people and a lot of people means a higher chance for jerks or weirdos. It doesn't mean the location itself is worse than others. People left Balmung cause they were offered easier transfer and some didn't. Simple as that. There's really nothing to say about Balmung unless you buy into the memes or let a personal interaction color your opinion of an entire community. And to hear "native mateus" players say it, the people who came from Balmung "ruined" their server. So would that mean the bad eggs left or stayed?

[Ayer2015]

You could just transfer to another server with RP on it. You know, the whole point of the server lock is to disperse the Balmung player-base a bit after all.

[SilverObi]

You could just transfer to another server with RP on it. You know, the whole point of the server lock is to disperse the Balmung player-base a bit after all.

Honestly no point in telling him that, he decided to stay for his reasons and probably won't change. But he has to learn to accept his choice and not whine about it :/

I stayed on this server for my handful of friends and I'm fine with the lock cause it needed to happen -shrug-

[Jijifli]

Move to Mateus, like every person from Balmung worth interacting with did.

Glad to hear I'm not worth interacting with because I didn't feel like abandoning an FC I spent years in, friends who I RP'd with for years, to go to a server I know nobody on.

[Alaray]

SE will unlock the server when they feel the population count is no longer too high, by whatever parameters they set.

It's a bit of a bummer I can't play with some friends, sure. But I did make an alt, and they are all on the same data center so we can, at least, do things in instanced content together.

For RP, we just utilize Discord (like I have been for years prior with similar programs). And outside of friends, had plenty of people through tumblr/RPC/other Discord channels ask to RP with me and... I dunno, I just feel that if I put out the ads and actually do get some bites then someone who's a bit more outgoing should be able to find stuff (or, granted, you could just waltz into the QS since there's basically always people there looking for walkups).

Even then, I have some alts on Mateus because I can't create more characters on Balmung (I made up to 5 before the locks, and not really in the mood to spend money on fantasia/name changes), and I'd also like to get to know more people and kind of see how stuff over there goes. I probably won't officially move since I have too much to keep me on Balmung, but it's been fun to run around on an alt.

RP still seems to be thriving between at least Balmung and Mateus, though I can't speak for other servers that have RP communities on them.

[Septonyte]

I am guessing Balmung will be unlocked by the end of March. My reasoning is more business related than anything else.

[rachcouture]

Not really unless you have some kind of bias. Balmung just has a lot of people and a lot of people means a higher chance for jerks or weirdos. It doesn't mean the location itself is worse than others. People left Balmung cause they were offered easier transfer and some didn't. Simple as that. There's really nothing to say about Balmung unless you buy into the memes or let a personal interaction color your opinion of an entire community. And to hear "native mateus" players say it, the people who came from Balmung "ruined" their server. So would that mean the bad eggs left or stayed?

Three years of personal experience on the server with the server lock stagnation as the final (and for me, the biggest, though I was one of the last of my circle to leave) nail in the coffin isn't buying into memes or bias. I mean we're talking the same server who's RP community has a cross-game negative reputation. I can't think of any other game I've played with that kind of notoriety towards its RP community.

Glad to hear I'm not worth interacting with because I didn't feel like abandoning an FC I spent years in, friends who I RP'd with for years, to go to a server I know nobody on.

It wasn't intended as an absolute. Harshly sarcastic, yes. Please don't take it personal.

[SilverObi]

I mean we're talking the same server who's RP community has a cross-game negative reputation. I can't think of any other game I've played with that kind of notoriety towards its RP community.

RP'ers are always made fun of, that goes back to even WoW and in some servers FFXI. First thing I heard about WoW was Goldshire jokes so infamy seems common in places where ERP can or does occur. Balmung got a bad rep cause people didn't like how when Q&A sessions happened, a majority (sometimes) of the questions came from Balmung because its larger population weighted the chances of their questions being picked and the questions mostly related to glamour or adjustments other vocal parts of the community felt were unnecessary. Then this became a meme that Balmung is ONLY about (e)RP and that only bad players populate there.

Hell you still see it in threads now and again "oh this baddie came from balmung OF COURSE". Even though there's many players of varying skill spread across every server. And I'm sorry to hear that your whole three years of being on Balmung was apparently bad, perhaps it was who you interacted with on a regular basis. There's no debating your personal experience so I won't but please don't bash the server because some aspects of it weren't to your liking.

But honestly enough of bumping this thread, it needs to be let back into the void. Server is locked for a good reason and should stay that way until more people disperse

[Rufalus]

Yoshida mentioned in one of the live letters that they are working on social cross-world instances for role-playing purposes.

Locked worlds are entirely population control to prevent server instability. You can say no evidence but they aren't required make all of their data public so it's a dead end. Server equipment does have its physical limits of course and S-E have decided where to draw the line on max simultaneous users so that the gameplay experience is not severely impacted by lag and disconnects.

Balmung has been over the edge in the past where user experience was heavily impacted, like crowds of people in one place losing connection to the server all at once. At the same time, datacenters with less congested worlds were not experiencing problems. They had to encourage people to transfer away with big rewards and then lock it down to prevent ever getting back to that point. Bottom line they will not open worlds unless population decreases.

[BillyKaplan]

How're things looking with the census? I heard people say there're several worlds more populated than us at this point, both with active and inactive charas.