I'm 100% in agreement, OP. I won't cross-post, but I made my points as to why I believe one or more officially designated RP servers are needed (not to mention were promised) here.

I'm getting nervous about this, myself. Open beta starts in less than a week, and considering data is supposed to transfer over to release, many people will be locked into a server choice. Which means one or more roleplay servers need to be designated before this weekend. The final server list needs to be released ASAP!

I'm hoping Balmung is designated the official legacy RP server, since most of the community is already there and it would cause the least amount of upheaval. There also seems to be enough demand to designate one non-legacy RP server, as well. There is a split decision as to which non-legacy server the community has chosen (the RPC voted Gilgamesh, the beta forums voted Behemoth). Officially designated servers would clear up confusion and point people in the right direction.