On House Relocations...

[Sothis]

Gilgamesh is also a resource drain and blaming Balmung alone for Aether's problems is a mistake on my part, I am sorry about that.

But I haven't seen any Gilgamesh players expecting SE to cater to them and their overpopulation problems, while 90% of the angry-at-housing-and-demanding-sweeping-changes threads are specifically from Balmung players. So while Gilgamesh is also responsible for other sets of issues, they really don't have any hand in the current problem. Which actually is an interest contrast - why is one heavily overpopulated server expecting to be catered to while another seems mostly content with the current situation?

[Enjuden]

Gilgamesh is also a resource drain and blaming Balmung alone for Aether's problems is a mistake on my part, I am sorry about that.

But I haven't seen any Gilgamesh players expecting SE to cater to them and their overpopulation problems, while 90% of the angry-at-housing-and-demanding-sweeping-changes threads are specifically from Balmung players. So while Gilgamesh is also responsible for other sets of issues, they really don't have any hand in the current problem. Which actually is an interest contrast - why is one heavily overpopulated server expecting to be catered to while another seems mostly content with the current situation?

The loud people are not the ones you should listen to.

[Elamys]

Which actually is an interest contrast - why is one heavily overpopulated server expecting to be catered to while another seems mostly content with the current situation?

Balmung is ultimately a server for roleplayers (albeit not officially) and housing is like catnip for them, so the interest in it is much higher. Gilgamesh's main jam appears to be raiding, which isn't supported much by housing. I actually don't even see many players from Gilgamesh posting on the forums in general, though, so that's strange.

Also, yeah, these forums aren't super representative of the game's main population. I don't know the exact number anymore or who it was but someone on the forums has a signature from a poll Square did as to who posts frequently on the forums and it was something like only 6% of responders - an abysmally low number. Even worse when you consider how many people probably didn't do the poll. So that's a good thing to keep in mind.

When it comes to in-game, I'm not seeing a whole lot of people upset about the situation. Most people were, I think, prepared to be disappointed with this last patch, and nobody really talks about housing now as they've moved back on to playing the game normally. Those who were lucky are having fun decorating and I'm happy for them.

[Settiesama]

Balmung is ultimately a server for roleplayers

Ok, no. Balmung may be the go to server for roleplayers, but it is not a server for roleplayers. You'll find roleplayers are still actually the minority in Balmung.

[Elamys]

Ok, no. Balmung may be the go to server for roleplayers, but it is not a server for roleplayers. You'll find roleplayers are still actually the minority in Balmung.

Obviously, but you can't really deny that RP is still a huge part of Balmung. It's kind of what the server is known for. It's a huge server, with a huge population of RPers (minority or not it's still very large) and that's probably why the interest in housing is so much higher than in other large servers.