Quote Originally Posted by Vrankyl View Post
We have actually spread out the RP community, as there is quite a large and thriving community on Mateus as well, not to mention at least one on the EU servers as well. Balmung remains congested because no one is moving off of it, because most of the people there are very well established. Those without many ties to the server, or wanting a change have already left for Mateus and the EU server. There are also decent sized RP communities on Jenova and Siren as well, and pockets of it spread elsewhere. I know Hyperion made some noise recently about their community.
Not to mention when they did open it, it was flooded with bots almost immediately. A good chunk of people have already left and at least on tumblr, most of the Balmung community is more than happy to promote other servers and boost recognition for them. By now most people coming to RP on FF14 actually have choices of where they might want to go and hardly anyone is saying they /need/ to come to Balmung to feel included.