Quote Originally Posted by SophiaDL View Post
just a little commentary here because this is actually pretty funny to me

have you ever been to balmung lately ? balmung is literally the RP/other kind of RP hubs, i dont know what you're talking about "weathered this kind of congestion", everyone is literally on crystal for RP, it's the same situation but for RP, there's not anywhere as much anywhere else, like please if you are going to speak on a topic at least do a tiny minuscule amount of research
Apparently you don't know the actual history of Balmung or you don't know what weathered means. Balmung was labeled as Congested for 80+% of the year for the last 4+ years with noone able to create new characters. Before Endwalker, every single housing in Balmung was taken up including apartments in every ward and subdivision in every neighborhood. Housing as a whole was non-existent on Balmung to the point people were paying 500M-1B for a large Goblet back then. Roleplay communities also regulary cap housing that restrict people from joining their friends, cap housing wards that prevent people from even getting inside, dealt with years of harassment that had venues locking doors to prevent future guests from entering, used to regularly lock players out of community discords from not having character/phone verification, making report/ban threats off of associations that prevent people from joining their friends. OG RP people aren't new the concept of being told "no" when it comes to congestion in general or joining their friends. And most would find it lowkey almost weird for people to complain about losing their friends on one data center, when most of them have friends on every single data center that they've made from actually socializing, and venue owners deal with the severing of connections of hundreds, potentially thousands of staff, partners, and guests. And yet, they aren't the primary one's here on the forums despite background frustration I've heard. One of the primary rules of the RP community in itself is "No means no". You aren't taught or expected to challenge things when something gets shut down. If you are locked away from your friends, you take the loss and meet up at a different time or have them come to you instead. They eat the inconvenience instead of screaming about an entitlement because they realize it's out of their hands and would rather walk away than get an accusation of "being disrespectful" or "inconsiderate of others" because it leads to situations getting worse including getting blackballed by an entire data center's worth of venues like what raiders have been doing to Aether.