Balmung appreciation thread

[Gyson]

I suspect many people who dislike Balmung either couldn't get on it, had to leave it for some reason, or envy it on some level. That's the impression I get based on the ways many people rant about it.

I also recognize that a very tiny fraction of FFXIV players ever visit the forums, and so most players don't even give Balmung (or any other server) a second of thought.

I think you're a bit delusional. I was on Balmung for a year and was extremely happy I left (Of my own accord with a self paid transfer) for Gilgamesh.

I said "many", not "most" or "all". If you disagree with that, that's fine, but you may be the delusional one in that case.

I notice you also didn't clarify why you left, or whether you actually even disliked Balmung in the first place (now that you're gone).

No, you pretty much implied most people are just jealous, which is fairly delusional. But, carry on patting yourself on the back.

Again, I said "many", not "most". That word seems to keep tripping you up for some reason. I also listed "had to leave it for some reason" as a potential reason, implying resentment rather than envy. I notice you're choosing not to harp on that.

Look, I get it. It's difficult for you to disprove that "many" people are jealous, so you insist I meant "most" people because it's an easier position for you to defend. But if you want to be annoyed at me, do it for something I actually said, not something you said.

Please don't overthink it. The surge in resent for Balmung is very obviously due to SE accommodating them and a handful of similarly populated worlds at everyone else's expense.

That would be misplaced anger then, since it was Square Enix that chose to allow and profit off of server transfers even though they knew Balmung was over capacity. They are the ones that manage server populations. If they managed poorly, it is them you should be taking issue with, not the residents of a server who did nothing more than go somewhere they were allowed to be.

You even say "resent for Balmung is very obviously due to SE accommodating them" - who is "them" in that statement? The residents of Balmung? As if Square was actually accommodating anyone outside of their own self interests. Balmung residents didn't ask for the server to be filled beyond capacity. Balmung residents didn't ask for Square to fail to manage the population properly. Balmung residents didn't ask Square to accepts payments for additional transfers to a server they claimed to have closed.

Do you realize Balmung residents can't even create additional characters on their own server? So while you get to have 8 characters on Siren, some Balmung residents are only allowed 1 (even though additional characters from the same player don't actually add to the population). Where you see "accommodation", I see a server that is being penalized by a company that took financial advantage of its popularity.

You may have been under-thinking this.

Delusion is pretty rampant on Balmung.

Surprise, Jandor is posting something negative about Balmung residents yet again. We can probably /thread now.

[XLauncher]

I suspect many people who dislike Balmung either couldn't get on it, had to leave it for some reason, or envy it on some level. That's the impression I get based on the ways many people rant about it.

Please don't overthink it. The surge in resent for Balmung is very obviously due to SE accommodating them and a handful of similarly populated worlds at everyone else's expense.

[Theodric]

Please don't overthink it. The surge in resent for Balmung is very obviously due to SE accommodating them and a handful of similarly populated worlds at everyone else's expense.

That's quite the conspiracy theory.

[HyperSMB]

That's quite the conspiracy theory.

I mean, I didn't give a rip about Balmung at all until this expansion hit and suddenly we get logged off everyday due to AFK exploiters in your server.

[Theodric]

I mean, I didn't give a rip about Balmung at all until this expansion hit and suddenly we get logged off everyday due to AFK exploiters in your server.

Balmung isn't the only congested server, every datacentre has at least one or two servers that are considered to be overpopulated.