An open letter from a Balmung player

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Rita1989]

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

It's really no different from any other server I have characters on multiple servers and it's basically the same.

[Magic-Mal]

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.

You'd think that but players won't. Players would flock to Balmung because it's Balmung. That's how it got so big in the first place.

"What's the most populated server?"
"Balmung"
"Cool thanks!"

People clump up wherever there are other people. That's why Rhalgr's Reach and Limsa are always laggy. That's why Idllyshire was laggy. That's why Balmung has 25,000+ people.

People herd. It's that simple honestly lol.