Petition to Lift Balmung Server Lock / Impact of Server Lock on FFXIV RP Community

[Lazaruz]

Argument in Support 1: Prohibiting transfers to Balmung divides the gaming community and discourages potential subscribers from purchasing the game to play with their friends.

If their inability to play with a friend makes or breaks the decision to subscribe to the game, FF14 is not for them to begin with, and it's only a matter of time before they permanently quit regardless. I've seen it happen first hand with people I've been in FC's with where they almost immediately left the game entirely upon someone else leaving

Argument in Support 2: There Is No Evidence That Balmung’s Current Server Population is Excessive or Detrimental.

Neither is there any proof that it isnt above or close to what the server hardware can reliably handle. And the absence of proof, is not the proof of absence.

But I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit anyway given the queues on Balmung during primetime and major content releases

Argument in Support 3: Prohibiting transfers to Balmung is devastating to the long-term viability and health of FFXIV’s large roleplay community.

So is hoarding it all on one single server, knowing full well that it cannot support every single person with a interest in participating. A healthy community would've spread itself out so you could possibly attract even more into the crowd, as I have no doubt there are those out there that could very well get into RP if they only got a good taste of it for FF14. (Only reason I'd even want to transfer to Balmung is in my experience no other server has that level of community due to hoarding the Roleplaying community). This is a player made problem to the outmost degree, and hypocritical in the extreme to blame SE for

But I guess it's more important to have a cool kids server then actually get a healthy community going. That way you have something to use as a shield when your toy gets taken away

Fallacious Argument 1: “Balmung is over populated, and SE will lift the server lock when it decides to.”

This argument is rooted in speculation, circular logic, and is not an argument in the first place. The argument amounts to little more than the following tautological nonsense: "the server is locked because SE says its locked and SE is right because it says its right." This is not valid reasoning or the basis of any respectable opinion. The entire point of this thread (and others like it) is to apprise the development team of the need to unlock the server.

No, it's not.

As we've seen many many times by now, SE both can and will unlock servers once population drops beyond what they consider a acceptable margin to the ideal max capacity, or how did you think Gilgamesh earned itself a unlock? It most deffinetely wasnt because of their players complaining on the forums days on end.

Balmung in all likelyhood needs a much more significant drop then many other servers, as while character creation remained lock, transfers didnt, and many people ACTIVELY advocated for using that loophole for getting on the server, which I can only assume contributed to further bloating of the population. It was only a matter of time untill SE had to put their foot down once the community refused to play ball with those whos job it is to make sure the game is both stable and playable for everyone.

Fallacious Argument 2: “The RP community doesn’t need one server, and can exist on multiple servers.”

I reffer you to my comment about Balmung's lock being "detrimental" to the RP community. Something I, just for the record find even more hillarious when you yourself pick appart that statement with

Servers serve no purpose to the RP community, and their only function is to divide an already small community across a pointless technical barrier.

If they dont serve any purpose because it "divides" the community, why are you enforcing said divide by trying to hoard it all on one single server?

Again, here's an idea, if you're afraid of how small your community is, maybe you should, oh i dont know, expose new people to it instead of hiding away in a corner? Your community wont grow if you dont allow it to grow in the first place


Conclusion: It's fine to be angry when your toy gets taken away from you. But atleast have the maturity to admit it instead of hiding behind easily deconstructed arguments