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

[Nezerius]

Here's the thing: if they unlock balmung, it'll get swarmed with transfers and effectively have wasted the past year.

Unlocking Balmung doesn't necessarily mean that everything has to be unlocked. They can lock transfers, and limit character creation (like they already do on some of the other big servers).

And even then, unlocking it doesn't mean that everyone will swarm back to the server, considering that didn't happen when Gilgamesh was unlocked.

Except maybe the recent census that was just posted showing balmung at 22k active players. The closest server to that IIRC is 16k.(sure its not by SE, but if your "facts" are legit then so is the census"

Yea, im thinking balmung needs to stay locked.

You're looking at the wrong column in the recent census. The 22,562 numbers is from the previous census. The current top 5 is Balmung (21,507), Leviathan (19,250), Cactuar (18,339), Omega (17,863), and Louisoix (17,733).
However, if you look at the amount of characters at lvl 70, Balmung and Leviathan are even closer, at 12,857 to 12,031 characters.

If the net change stays the same, with Balmung losing just over 1k players between the most recent, and the previous census, it should probably be within range of a character creation unlock in the first half of 2018.

Someone Necro'd this thread?? Not against bringing it back but so everyone knows its highly unlikely the OP will respond if even look at this thread. They don't like forums cause to put it balantly they dont like people disagreeing with them.

A thread's discussion can continue without interaction from the OP. It's better to have a single thread talking about the Balmung server lock, than having a new thread about it every week.

[NolLacnala]

Do people finish up a different roleplay every day or something? Guess people don't know how to get creative anymore.

Most of the complainers are probably ERPers who have burned every bridge and need fresh meat for the lewd grinder.

[DamianFatale]

#LiftBalmung

[Settiesama]

#LiftBalmung

Give us one none cookie cutter reason as to why it should be? Without ignoring every reason why it should remain closed.

[Penthea]

I empathise and sympathise with players who feel locked out of a large rp community because of server locks. However it cannot be disputed that the bloated population of Balmung has created several issues for the server as a whole. SE acted way too late on this but better late than never.

The community designated Balmung as the rp server, not SE. There is no reason why the community can't do the same on other servers.

[Vidu]

Balmung is definitely still populated, but the amount of people in my fc's and friends list have dwindled massively. The amount of substantial RP FC's has been declining at a rapid rate as well. No new blood into the community is killing the roleplayers.

Can someone explain this argument to me? (I picked this quote randomly, the whole "we need new people"-thing has been brought up by several people)
As a non-RPer I just dont understand this - I always thought you'd find your RP-group and play with those people. Maybe have a second group with an alt or something, but basically: Continue to tell the story of your character, interacting with teh characters of your friends? So why do you need new people all the time? Are you going through "friends" so quickly?
I'm asking this because I've been playing this game with more or less the same people for years now - once in a while someone new joins our ranks (usual its not a person new to the game though, just new to the group - I'm sure I havent met all 15k people on Odin), while another person leaves but the core-group always stays the same.
I always assumed its the same for RPers?
Are you just getting bored by people a lot faster than I do?

(...please tell me its not really the ERP-thing...)

[Starfell]

#LiftBalmung

I agree or at least give people more of a reason to leave. Sucks that the lock is making some people unable to fully play together.

[Settiesama]

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From what I've seen, they either want to expand on-going rps by adding new people, and others tend to get bored of their storylines rather quickly and like to move on to other ones, and therefore want new people to rp with instead. I believe they don't like altering what has happened to them in the story so refuse to just adapt to a new background for a new storyline. Now, this would be an issue for them if they had rp'd with every rper in the server, but seeing how many there are, I highly doubt it so new people joining the server changes nothing.

I really don't understand it, but the whole argument they give of needing new people in the server for the community to survive/thrive is absolutely ridiculous. If they looked past that idea, they would see there is nothing wrong at all with the server.

[Rokke]

Can someone explain this argument to me?

Well, while you will likely have your "core" group of people to rp your character with, you do want to mix things up with others if you don't want the story to boil down to revolving around the same people forever. New character contacts are potential new scenarios that your character wouldn't have been in otherwise. Its less burning through friends and more branching outwards a la



the bigger the circles are, the more directions your character can go.

[Atreyu]

Can someone explain this argument to me?
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(...please tell me its not really the ERP-thing...)

It's nothing to do with ERP. Friends take breaks, get burnt out, decide to stop RPing for whatever reason.
Sometimes this happens with those who put on major events for the whole server, which is something that Balmung admittedly still has in spades, but in the long-term it could be detrimental.

For me, my reasons for wanting it to be unlocked are because I want to stay here (where most of my RP connections are) but also want my friends to be here with me, too. Many of my friends are stranded on less-populated servers with fewer people to play with. Many fellow RPers come from communities from other games, too, with whom they want to join up with in this world. For instance I came here from WoW and know most of my friends and connections from the guild we share on there.

Many of us are here either because we rolled in HW before the locks (or even longer -- I'm a relic on this server from Besaid in 1.0), but for others who came during Stormblood they're effectively cut off from the circles that may have made them interested in the game to begin with.

Granted, many of us have made alts on that smaller server to play with them, but this isn't the most alt-friendly game, either.