Petition to Keep Balmung Server Locked

[Oscura]

Pretty great how this thread went from decent satire to just people being petty and pathetic.

We get it, it's cool to hate Balmung. It doesn't stop you from looking like a tool when you get personal about it.

[Ladykria]

I think it's quite ridiculous to hate an entire server because a few people out of the 20k made it look bad for you, but by all means go ahead. It's just human nature after all.

I wouldn't say hate, but extreme dislike and annoyance that you guys demand to be treated any differently than any other server out there. SE didn't make you guys special snowflakes. You did that on your own when you began declaring you guys were the central hub for RP, something SE never wanted, hence why they will never declare an official RP server.

[Skivvy]

I wouldn't say hate, but extreme dislike and annoyance that you guys demand to be treated any differently than any other server out there. SE didn't make you guys special snowflakes. You did that on your own when you began declaring you guys were the central hub for RP, something SE never wanted, hence why they will never declare an official RP server.

Some history for the masses. Back in 2010, there had actually been a poll amongst the players to try and figure out which server to name as the unofficial RP server. Besaid won the poll.

When ARR launched About 18 months before ARR launched, Fabul and Besaid merged to create Balmung, bringing the unofficial RP server title with it. So there you have it. It's not so much that we suddenly began declaring ourselves anything, it's that the early players of XIV 1.0 had put the decision to a vote and settled on Besaid, which eventually became Balmung.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Some history for the masses. Back in 2010, there had actually been a poll amongst the players to try and figure out which server to name as the unofficial RP server. Besaid won the poll.

When ARR launched, Fabul and Besaid merged to create Balmung, bringing the unofficial RP server title with it. So there you have it. It's not so much that we suddenly began declaring ourselves anything, it's that the early players of XIV 1.0 had put the decision to a vote and settled on Besaid, which eventually became Balmung.

Besaid and Fabul merged into Balmung before 2.0 launched, not for the launch. It was around 6-12 months before the servers shut down IIRC.

Edit: Looks like around Feb of 2012. 18 months before 2.0 launched.

[Skivvy]

Besaid and Fabul merged into Balmung before 2.0 launched, not for the launch. It was around 6-12 months before the servers shut down IIRC.

Edit: Looks like around Feb of 2012. 18 months before 2.0 launched.

Ah, thank you for the correction! I was not playing at the very end of 1.xx - I just know I was placed on Balmung when ARR launched.

[New_Game_Plus]

Honestly, I hope it stays locked. Lets others try out different servers.

[dinnertime]

I wouldn't say hate, but extreme dislike and annoyance that you guys demand to be treated any differently than any other server out there. SE didn't make you guys special snowflakes. You did that on your own when you began declaring you guys were the central hub for RP, something SE never wanted, hence why they will never declare an official RP server.

See, this is what I've been saying. You lump those small minority who think that way with the majority of Balmung.

Not everybody thinks that way. I never demanded anyone to treat Balmung like it's special.
Also other servers were free to do also make their servers the RP hub and nobody was stopping them. I've never heard of SE disapproving that at all.

By the way, official RP servers won't help with anything.

[Magic-Mal]

Please don't turn this thread into Oaken's. Oscura is right.

[otarolgam]

It is exactly this kind of behavior that makes us not have any respect for you guys. Why should SE have to invest time and money into strengthening only ONE server? I'm sorry to break the news but there are other live, ACTIVE, worlds out there that you guys are missing out on just because you want to isolate yourself to one server. We're living out here, outside your guys 10 foot wall of isolation.

It wouldn't be investing time and money into ONE server, it'd be coding a solution into the mess of ancient code so that a crash WON'T happen on the Data Center while one server becomes a superpower on it's own.

[Lazaruz]

It wouldn't be investing time and money into ONE server, it'd be coding a solution into the mess of ancient code so that a crash WON'T happen on the Data Center while one server becomes a superpower on it's own.

I dont know if I should just shake my head, or laugh at the sheer level of ignorance