An open letter from a Balmung player

[Aldotsk]

As a fellow Balmung player, I am starting to feel that the people who make threads like this for Balmung is giving me the urge to leave because they act like special snowflakes and require self entitlement without understanding why other servers need players and need to balance the population of the preferred servers.

[dotsforlife]

As a fellow Balmung player, I am starting to feel that the people who make threads like this for Balmung is giving me the urge to leave because they act like special snowflakes and require self entitlement without understanding why other servers need players and need to balance the population of the preferred servers.

Entirely this and nothing more.

People (such as the op for example) need to grow up or bugger off. No one is being "mean" by responding with the cold hard truth. That's reality. Get over it. Your selfish needs/desires do not outweigh the common sense here. Which, if it isn't obvious, isn't in your favor.

[Skivvy]

First of all, Balmung is still the most populated server in the entirety of FFXIV.. so I don't know what your problem is.

Secondly, this issue is a direct effect of the players not SE. This does not include the people who were forcefully put in. No, this is the fault of every person who knowingly created characters and joined Balmung when it was already locked. Knowingly transferred into the server BECAUSE it was locked. That is why the server is an overpopulated mess. Everyone jam-packed themselves into one server then complain they can't/won't leave. Now it's locked even from transfer. Deal with it

So SE ‘locks’ the server as it is getting too congested, but they will happily still accept payment from those who want to skirt around the lock - and yet this is only the player’s fault?

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m content with the lock, but that is some weird logic you’ve got there.

[BigRed5392]

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the way mmo servers work, datacenters are located in server batches, too much data in one place can crash a system. Aether has had to restart numerious times because gil and balmung process too much data. a server can support 5000 concurrent log ins. both gil and balmung top that 10 fold.

Plus add to the fact the devs completely locked the servers from creation and transfer, it means it was a serious to the servers health.

if you go to the lodestone, and look into how often aether crafted from ARR, you see why.

to put it on perspective, it is like playing skyrim going to a small room and item duping cheese 5000x should see how fast the game starts to lag up.

[Lunafreya]

If you dont want to leave then dont? Nice attention thread. Tell us about your new erp next.

[Knahli]

Between Balmung and Gilgamesh, this must be at least the fourth or fifth topic about this in the space of a few days, and considering that the community is clearly not in overwhelming support of your perspective, your efforts are most likely just coming across as obnoxious rather than passionate.

[MoroMurasaki]

the way mmo servers work, datacenters are located in server batches, too much data in one place can crash a system. Aether has had to restart numerious times because gil and balmung process too much data. a server can support 5000 concurrent log ins. both gil and balmung top that 10 fold.

Plus add to the fact the devs completely locked the servers from creation and transfer, it means it was a serious to the servers health.

if you go to the lodestone, and look into how often aether crafted from ARR, you see why.

to put it on perspective, it is like playing skyrim going to a small room and item duping cheese 5000x should see how fast the game starts to lag up.

I am the first to admit that I don't know much about the technical workings of this game/MMO's in general so I certainly wouldn't try to poke any holes in your theory but without some kind of confirmation isn't a theory all it is?


I just think with the big focus on getting people to transfer to smaller servers if entire data centers were routinely going down because of Balmung SE would publicize the issue as further reason to relocate.

I don't know, I'm just hesitant to leverage such an accusation without any kind of proof. What you're saying makes sense to me but again as someone who knows very little about that I don't think my technical opinion is worth much.

[Magic-Mal]

So SE ‘locks’ the server as it is getting too congested, but they will happily still accept payment from those who want to skirt around the lock - and yet this is only the player’s fault?

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m content with the lock, but that is some weird logic you’ve got there.

Both are at fault I guess but it's still mainly the players' faults by a long shot. You couldn't get in the normal way. You had to pay. They could've charged $60 and it wouldn't be any different. SE acknowledged that small mistake. It's time for Balmung to acknowledge theirs.

What can SE do after this? We all know if they unlock it, everyone and their grandma(literally even!) will trample back into Balmung and complain later about housing, hunts, lag, and that SE sucks for being negligent about population control.

SE had no choice but to officially take control because the players of Balmung in general, had none.

[Rita1989]

I disagree that everyone will flock to Balmung when there is little incentive to unless it's to specifically play with someone you know on the server or rp but Mateus can fill that role now and it costs nothing to create a character.

The big reason people wanted to play on a bigger servers were mainly to have an active PF because some servers it was completely dead like Zalera and if you wanted to raid it was almost impossible.

With the cross server PF those issues are gone now.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

I disagree that everyone will flock to Balmung when there is little incentive to unless it's to specifically play with someone you know on the server or rp but Mateus can fill that role now and it costs nothing to create a character.

The big reason people wanted to play on a bigger servers were mainly to have an active PF because some servers it was completely dead like Zalera and if you wanted to raid it was almost impossible.

With the cross server PF those issues are gone now.

Balmung offers something no other server does, and that's a really large vocal community. It's different than any other server.