(08-05-2013, 01:58 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: Speaking from a personal point of view there are a lot of times when I'm sad to see people who are on Gilgamesh, not because I want everyone to join Balmung, but because there are so many great roleplayers in this community and I know a lot of them I'll never get to meet in game and experience RP with them, simply because of the rift in servers. Now if you imagine that it's not just Gilgamesh, but there could be other smaller communities out there as well filled with wonderful RPers we'll never even meet, even on the RPC, but that we could all be brought together if we had an official server. Or at least most of us would be brought together.
This accurately describes my own feelings on the subject. What was once a very simple decision for me when I signed up for this community is now something I often mull over, now that I've gotten to know some of the people who will be on Gilgamesh (as an example)... their concepts and their ideas. I'd like to become involved with the community, and I identify with their motivations for splitting, but I don't want to spread myself too thinly.Â
Knowing that there might even be other servers where micro-communities are going to spring up makes me wish even more that we had an easy way to unify things in-game. Even if it was something at the social infrastructure level, such as cross-server channels, groups (with being able to see the other players), or similar. Forum roleplays and such are one way, but in my opinion, that's only part of the experience.