Balmung re-opened

[Fredco191]

Two minutes.

[Theodric]

If nothing else, the forum should be entertaining when Balmung crashes Aether and inevitably blocks a lot of people on other servers out of having a fair chance of acquiring a house for themselves...

I'll feel a lot of sympathy for those people.

[Zojha]

If nothing else, the forum should be entertaining when Balmung crashes Aether and inevitably blocks a lot of people on other servers out of having a fair chance of acquiring a house for themselves...

That makes for an interesting bet:
What will happen first, houses being bought out on Balmung or Balmung crashing?

We should put that on a twitch stream with a live commentary :3

[Cerbolt]

I'll be generous and say a week.

[Theodric]

That makes for an interesting bet:
What will happen first, houses being bought out on Balmung or Balmung crashing?

We should put that on a twitch stream with a live commentary :3

If it does cause issues, though. I hope it's locked by the time Eureka arrives.

[Ayer2015]

If it does cause issues, though. I hope it's locked by the time Eureka arrives.

I would be shocked if it is still open by 4.25 regardless

[JCharms]

Are there really that many roleplayers in FF14? I mean, why would you go to a server with that many issues unless you're a roleplayer? Or is it all just a bunch of horny teenage boys?

[DevonEllwood]

I hope the developers will be ready to hit that emergency maintenance "button" because I can't see anything going smoothly.

[DreadRabbit]

Are there really that many roleplayers in FF14? I mean, why would you go to a server with that many issues unless you're a roleplayer? Or is it all just a bunch of horny teenage boys?

Yes, enough to fill at least 3 servers now on Aether and at least one or two on the other NA data centers. Just like there are multiple RP servers on WoW, Guild Wars 2, ESO, etc. And thinking it's all eRP and "horny teenage boys" is horribly narrow-minded.

Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder are still popular (if not growing more popular thanks to streaming), and go figure, a lot of those types enjoy Fantasy MMOs. There are people who like to goof off with very laid back and more "social" RP and then you have those that craft novel-length campaigns and play them out in the game world. They basically make their own content while waiting for SE to drop new stuff. I'd argue the RP community is about equal to the hardcore raiding community in terms of numbers, if not potentially has more people since it's easier to get into. They're just more prone to grouping in the same servers because you can't always just cross-server for events and stuff.

[PepperMinty]