Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
It is not about being with the popular crowd. It is about being with a crowd at all. People who RP generally want to be around other people who do RP so there are plenty of people to RP with.

It has nothing to do with prestige or any such silliness, but has everything to do with the simple fact that to do RP you need to be where other RPers are.
This. I'd love it if Zodiark had a better RP scene. But there aren't that many people interested in it. Venues are just afk spaces for people to loop dance emotes. I know Omega was considered for a while to be the Balmung of EU, but I don't think it ever reached the same numbers or style overall. People still flocked over to the Crystal Datacenter regardless, because that's where roleplaying was happening.