As a former Balmung resident from early HW to early ShB I agree that the current state of Balmung is courtesy of World/Data Center Travel. The tourists turned it into the very thing everyone meme'd about. What was once a small contained corner of the server took over the whole joint making legit RP places harder to manage. I moved to Mateus and honestly... it gives me the same vibes old Balmung used to. Hells, our Quicksand has actual RP going on inside of it like Balmung's used to. Hope on over to Buscaron's Druthers? There's a good chance you'll find RP there. Hell one time a friend and I started RPing there and all of a sudden a whole ton of people were. It was amazing. It's sad that Balmung has become something else these days.