Crystal Party-Finder, Please for the love of god.... Stop with the club-spam..

[Kes13a]

Funny story...I have a coworker who plays on Hyperion who keeps nagging me to move there. I decided to split the difference and made an alt on Hyperion. Was chugging through the story until I got to "It's Probably Pirates"...we came a hairs breath away from wiping a third of the way into Sastasha...let that sink in...wiping in Sastasha.

So much for the "elite" legacy servers.

thats actually rather hilarious. I mean, I am certain it happens on Crystal, its just, I dont think I have ever been in a party that came close to that. at least not on normal

[Remish]

Balmung had its reputation before Mateus even had a population of note - which, of course, mostly came from Balmung in the great exodus. The two might as well be one.

Ah yes. The great Balmung exodus. That is a historical chapter in FFXIV's life span that many have forgotten about and most new players never heard of. Apart of me was wondering if this would happen again when they bring the new 4th NA data center in.
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For those that don't know. The tl;dr summary of the great Balmung exodus was basically when half Balmungs role play community was fed up with the state of RP on the server that most decided to leave. They were upset at lack of housing for their RP venues. The sheer number of trolls in Ul Dah shout. Yhe login queues. And ofc, being lumped in by default with the ERP crowd. So a vast many of them had migrated to Mateus which was the lowest populated server at the time and was among the only few with open plots of land left untouched. At first all was great. The role players got homes on Mateus and started hosting events. Things seemed swell until their Qucksand turned identically and exactly into Balmung's. It was a spitting image. Coupled with the fact you couldn't make Alts on Balmung, everyone decided made them on Mateus instead so they could look for ERP. It didn't help that while disgusted with Balmung's culture, they hadn't realized how heavily engraved it was into their own behaviors. That quickly made things feel like one had never left Balmung. Within half a year, Mateus was a carbon copy of Balmung in every possible way. The role players having realized this had given up and returned back to Balmung where they at least had the friends they knew among other possible benefits such as cheaper markets or other things.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I decided to go to one of the popular club postings venues and when I got there, it was just a bunch of people doing the /beesknees and not one single person talking. Riveting RP.

[AnnRam]

ERP/RP was a mistake.

[Vahlnir]

thats just lies plain and simple. I know quite a few people that have cleared high end things with PF. are there a lot of RP'ers, yes. but there are also many that know what they are doing and maybe they wouldnt let you play with them, I kdont know, but Crystal is hardly the train wreck its reputed to be.

Yeah, it's definitely not THAT bad. I was just posting about my personal experience. With the bad there is also some good. The same could be said for any server/data center.

[RHarris1349]

Please for the love of all that is good, curb your party finder club-spam.

I'm so glad you said something. It's off the cringe-charts, for real. I won't go into how much I dislike the ad revenue they're trying to rake in, but it's pretty damn stupid regardless in my opinion.

So what am I supposed to do? Divide my attention away from playing the game I logged into to be afk in someone's third-party hacked house while I hit up Twitch ads to listen to some nutter all alone in his house mixing sets he didn't compile? The worst part is people do that. I guess we're better off, but couldn't one just go to a club in real life? Not sure if someone living 100 miles away from a large metropolitan area would even be interested in that anyway, market-wise it's an insanely small demographic they would be pandering to. People can do what they want, maybe we're better off having them over there while we do our own thing. /shrug

Question!: What's the cringy-est promo anyone one of yall have heard? Recently I heard, "come DJ *such-and-such* will MELT your SOUL." XD lmao, I was like, UH NO! Nope, why would the WoL do that after all that we've been through??? Haha, idk man, that's some new marketing for me, lol

[Vahlnir]

I'm so glad you said something. It's off the cringe-charts, for real. I won't go into how much I dislike the ad revenue they're trying to rake in, but it's pretty damn stupid regardless in my opinion.

So what am I supposed to do? Divide my attention away from playing the game I logged into to be afk in someone's third-party hacked house while I hit up Twitch ads to listen to some nutter all alone in his house mixing sets he didn't compile? The worst part is people do that. I guess we're better off, but couldn't one just go to a club in real life? Not sure if someone living 100 miles away from a large metropolitan area would even be interested in that anyway, market-wise it's an insanely small demographic they would be pandering to. People can do what they want, maybe we're better off having them over there while we do our own thing. /shrug

It doesn't really bother me that people use the PF to recruit for RP venues. It is indeed recruiting players, just en masse. I've never been to one of these venues though and I never plan to. The amount of repeat ads is obnoxious though. Just...post your crap once and be done, I say. I'm usually cycling through the tabs relevant to me (so basically anything but RP) so I don't really pay the "Other" tab much mind, but I know how ridiculous it can be.

[Jybril]

Question!: What's the cringy-est promo anyone one of yall have heard? Recently I heard, "come DJ *such-and-such* will MELT your SOUL." XD lmao, I was like, UH NO! Nope, why would the WoL do that after all that we've been through??? Haha, idk man, that's some new marketing for me, lol

I don't see anything wrong with it? Lmao, let people RP what they want.
It's not hurting anyone. If anything we do deserve a break from all these fetch quests from these NPC's
and saving the world for the 10000000th time and I don't even RP and I'm from Balmung.

[Raven2014]

For those that don't know. The tl;dr summary of the great Balmung exodus was basically when half Balmungs role play community was fed up with the state of RP on the server that most decided to leave. They were upset at lack of housing for their RP venues. The sheer number of trolls in Ul Dah shout. Yhe login queues. And ofc, being lumped in by default with the ERP crowd. So a vast many of them had migrated to Mateus which was the lowest populated server at the time and was among the only few with open plots of land left untouched. At first all was great. The role players got homes on Mateus and started hosting events. Things seemed swell until their Qucksand turned identically and exactly into Balmung's. It was a spitting image. Coupled with the fact you couldn't make Alts on Balmung, everyone decided made them on Mateus instead so they could look for ERP. It didn't help that while disgusted with Balmung's culture, they hadn't realized how heavily engraved it was into their own behaviors. That quickly made things feel like one had never left Balmung. Within half a year, Mateus was a carbon copy of Balmung in every possible way. The role players having realized this had given up and returned back to Balmung where they at least had the friends they knew among other possible benefits such as cheaper markets or other things.

Sound like (current) great California exodus, except the sentiment is probably ... opposite?

[LittleChickenNugget]

Question!: What's the cringy-est promo anyone one of yall have heard? Recently I heard, "come DJ *such-and-such* will MELT your SOUL." XD lmao, I was like, UH NO! Nope, why would the WoL do that after all that we've been through??? Haha, idk man, that's some new marketing for me, lol

The cringiest thing would be to think people are RPing as the WoL. We're not, we're regular adventurers working our way through the world very much with limitations. So to me, it would make sense that someone who had a really bad journey just take place would want to go somewhere for a drink and maybe entertainment.

Doesn't make the spam of it any less eye-rolling worthy.