SE, please designate a Role Play friendly server!

[BrusselSprout]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."

Oh snap

[Aric]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."

Yoshi and team is doing awsome keep up the awsome work

[Fensfield]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."

Oh hurrah, thank you so much for the response Bayohne! Not to mention carrying our concerns and all.

Who was it said we'd get a response Tuesday? Bang on the money. I put Monday as an outside guess earlier but still - hurrah! If nothing else this also puts to rest one of the arguments being hurled about by certain less friendly members of the community, too, hopefully.

Now, here's hoping us roleplayers don't have to go through too much palava come that time, and that the server's setup won't be too unfriendly to people don't like roleplaying so much as just being on a server with the sort of community is friendly to it.

Thanks again!

[TheVedis]

Oh hurrah, thank you so much for the response!

Who was it said we'd get a response tuesday? Bang on the money. I put monday as an outside guess earlier but still - hurray!

Now, he's hoping us roleplayers don't have to go through too much palava come that time.

Thanks again!

im sure 99% of the arguing thatl come when 2.0 hits and your offered a server is due to the fact youll have to transfer away from Balmung to a new server. And how people will whine its unfair they have to leave friends behind and itl split the community.

[Wynn]

im sure 99% of the arguing thatl come when 2.0 hits and your offered a server is due to the fact youll have to transfer away from Balmung to a new server. And how people will whine its unfair they have to leave friends behind and itl split the community.

QFT. This is exactly what is going to happen LOL. However, congrats to all you RP dudes, dudettes, and ladydudes on getting your own RP server at the end of the year. Hope you guys enjoy it.

[Fensfield]

QFT. This is exactly what is going to happen LOL. However, congrats to all you RP dudes, dudettes, and ladydudes on getting your own RP server at the end of the year. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Thank you, Wynn.

And yes, it's pretty obvious that'll happen if a separate server is created. Frankly, though, how is that different from any change to the game? Some group will always have issues, another will present reasonable counter arguments, and then there'll be one more whose members just act like idiots.

I suspect come that time I will be supporting any threads asking either that the official designation be applied to the server with the greatest roleplayer concentration, or any thread proposing a good idea for getting the community comfortably transplanted. But even if that motion fails and the RP server's creation is done clumsily, I still think the existence of such a server would be most beneficial in the long-run so.. yeah. I know I wouldn't mind starting over to follow the majority of roleplay. Of course that's only my opinion but.. that's kind of the point.

If anything, my concern is that the eventual creation of a roleplay server will make certain people feel it gives them free reign to be nasty to anyone fancies engaging in roleplaying on a server that isn't officially suggested for the purpose. But then, I guess there'll always be people are basically just horrible. Hooray for blacklists.

[Zottan]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."

That means there are going to be free world transfers to that server or... u are gonna have to pay to go that server?

[Rowyne]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."

Thank you SO much for this response, Bayohne! You're right, many of us were on pins and needles!

It would have been nice to put this in place now, but I think I can see the reasoning behind waiting. With 2.0 there will be a lot of server restructuring and even more upheaval than we're about to go through. But the idea right now is to consolidate the reduced playerbase to maximize the opportunity for group play. At least with the upcoming merge setup, there is still the opportunity for those in the know to come to Balmung and join the RP community there if they would like to. We just need to get the word out.

In regards to splitting up the community, it's too bad we didn't have a few official server designations right from the start. But we didn't, so now we can only go forward. I believe the least disruptive option would be to take the server that the community and its friends has already designated as the unofficial RP server (Besaid/Balmung) and just make it official. It would keep an already established server community together. However, as it has been stated, that is possibly unfair to some who play there and do not want to be on a RP server (though, it begs the question, if you are so vehemently opposed, why are you there?). So, we may very well see come 2.0 that the official roleplay server will be a brand new world, much like Ragnarok.

If the designated RP server is indeed a new world, we'll all have some decisions to make. For me, I see it being very simple. I came here from FFXI where I carried over my old linkshell. I chose Besaid because it was where the RP community was going, and I knew that being on a server with such a friendly, helpful and mature community would give my linkshell the greatest chance for longevity. And unless I have some major objections from members of my linkshell, the RP server is where we'll be going.

Again, thanks Yoshi-P and Bayohne for bringing us this information. It's a matter that's very important to me. I did not subscribe in January, but when the server merges gave everyone cause for concern and the possibility to finally officially designate a roleplay server presented itself, it was enough to get me to lay down money to make my voice heard.

This is fantastic news.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."

There is no reason to do this, the RPing groups that are on Besaid, are staying, so Balmung will be the new "RP" server, we already have one designated -.-

[TheVedis]

There is no reason to do this, the RPing groups that are on Besaid, are staying, so Balmung will be the new "RP" server, we already have one designated -.-

but they cant dub it official cuz itd be unfair to those who dont want it to be "official" thats why they will eventualy try and make one specificaly for RP thats called the roleplaying server