Quote Originally Posted by Arillyn View Post
Balmung was the RP server named by the community before 2.0 launched. There were many RPers in 1.0 and when all of us had to decide which servers we wanted SE to move our 1.0 characters to there was a lot of discussion amongst the whole community on where people were going to go. Everyone had to decide to move their character to another server or stay where we had originally made our characters - because some of the servers were staying in Japan and others were being moved to NA. During that time RPers chose Balmung to be the unofficial RP server and it has remained that way to this day. When people could no longer get onto Balmung and there was no housing to be had, the RP community decided they needed to move to another server that had a lot of housing open. That was Mateus because that server's population was so small and entire wards were open. So a lot of people moved to Mateus including whole FCs and it became another unofficial RP server.

Also SE encourages RP. They made a tag for it and housing tags so people could put what their house is (tavern, bakery, etc). Just because there is no official RP server doesn't mean SE looks down upon it, they don't at all.
I wasn't debating whether SE looks down upon RP. I was stating there are no official RP servers, so what RPers may claim is an "RP world", or "RP datacenter", isn't so.

A bunch of overflow RPers taking it upon themselves to rush a world, and (again) proclaim it is now an "RP world" is just a bad look. It still doesn't make that world an actual RP world, it wasn't before, and it isn't now. Until SE makes dedicated worlds for RP SPECIFICALLY, RPers should keep in mind the others who may not want to participate or view that spam in their chat.