OP, please consider that this game has gone through a number of changes since release, probably more than any other MMORPG on the market. A lot of decisions were made as things developed with no knowledge about how things might have changed in the future.Â
There was a community vote way back before the launch of 1.0 for an unofficial RP server, Besaid was the victor. Unfortunately 1.0 was a mega-flop, and one of the consequences of that flop was Besaid merging into Balmung. Fast forward to the release of 2.0, when SE informed us that legacy players would not be allowed to transfer to new servers at all, that left us with pretty much one option - to continue supporting Balmung as a major unofficial RP server. Many newer players wanted a fresh start, which is totally understandable - a very small number of these new players even went so far as demanding that legacy players delete and re-roll their characters on the new server so that things would be "fair" to the new role-players. After some sound and fury, a vote was held for a non-legacy server, and Gilgamesh won the vote.Â
At this point it's very unlikely that SE will ever declare an official RP server, and I sincerely hope they don't. Can you imagine the divide that would cause here? I'm sure as many players would feel the urge to stay as they would to go.
As others have said, the aim to support Balmung and Gilgamesh is all about concentrating as many RPers in as few places as possible and is the result of decisions made under pressure by the community - and each of those decisions were only made after vigorous debate. It's not about snubbing roleplay on Faerie or any other server.
There was a community vote way back before the launch of 1.0 for an unofficial RP server, Besaid was the victor. Unfortunately 1.0 was a mega-flop, and one of the consequences of that flop was Besaid merging into Balmung. Fast forward to the release of 2.0, when SE informed us that legacy players would not be allowed to transfer to new servers at all, that left us with pretty much one option - to continue supporting Balmung as a major unofficial RP server. Many newer players wanted a fresh start, which is totally understandable - a very small number of these new players even went so far as demanding that legacy players delete and re-roll their characters on the new server so that things would be "fair" to the new role-players. After some sound and fury, a vote was held for a non-legacy server, and Gilgamesh won the vote.Â
At this point it's very unlikely that SE will ever declare an official RP server, and I sincerely hope they don't. Can you imagine the divide that would cause here? I'm sure as many players would feel the urge to stay as they would to go.
As others have said, the aim to support Balmung and Gilgamesh is all about concentrating as many RPers in as few places as possible and is the result of decisions made under pressure by the community - and each of those decisions were only made after vigorous debate. It's not about snubbing roleplay on Faerie or any other server.
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