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Kylin · **09-03-2010, 12:21 PM**

I suppose the responses we're getting here (and on the other big sites) should have been expected. Either way though, nothing is changing regarding server choice unless something drastic happens between now and launch. We'd have the same drama if we chose any other server as well, probably moreso if there were other large communities going to the same one.

Tadir · **09-03-2010, 12:22 PM**

*Cheer!*
Also Castiel's next post will be number 800.

Asyria · **09-03-2010, 12:27 PM**

Hey, speaking of puns, am I pronouncing Beseid right if I pronounce it like Beside?
If so I could say that it's no use complaining now cause it's done and, Beseid, it's not like some sort of crazy RP-haters were heading there.

Tadir · **09-03-2010, 12:37 PM**

Heh, unfortunately, you aren't.

It's Bee, Say'd

Asyria · **09-03-2010, 12:59 PM**

So a bee said that's how you pronounce it?

Rhio · **09-03-2010, 01:12 PM**

Yep, bee-SAYD. Almost like it's spelled. (The second half has a long "a" rather than the short sound you'd expect.)

I really could care less about the server name. It's useful to me insofar as it's a reference point, but if they wanted to just call it FFXIV-SERVER-X THEME that'd work just as well. The name stops mattering after about ten minutes.

Trizzip · **09-03-2010, 01:13 PM**

Rhio Wrote:Yep, bee-SAYD. Almost like it's spelled. (The second half has a long "a" rather than the short sound you'd expect.)

I really could care less about the server name. It's useful to me insofar as it's a reference point, but if they wanted to just call it FFXIV-SERVER-X THEME that'd work just as well. The name stops mattering after about ten minutes.

But what an agonizing ten minutes it can be Tongue

Rhio · **09-03-2010, 01:16 PM**

Brin Ahlrine Wrote:But what an agonizing ten minutes it can be

I find it helps if you mentally replace the potential server names you wanted with names you would never get but you want anyway.

For instance, I'm really upset that we didn't wind up on the Gilead, Serenity Valley, Normandy, Thedas, Exodar, or Kryta servers. Wink

BloodHecate · **09-03-2010, 03:22 PM**

Well, one positive way of looking at this is that it all balances out.
The other towns servers in Final Fantasy XIV would normally have the advantage of having a nice name while Besaid would have the disadvantage of being the truly unfitting and out of place one, being simply awful and a worst choice to many people, including myself. Having the most important communities on the internet acts as a counterweight, giving the poor thing a fighting chance. Making the place more bearable and equal for many people than it already is. And I suppose that's an entirely fair compensation, taking a notably bad or cringeworthy server and bringing it up to the level of the other servers through sheer overwhelming importance of it's community.

I'd also like to remind people here that the conversation between me and others started by simply me stating that "I am disappointed" in no more than a fairly solemn way, and others responding "Why" continuously. If there was anyone provoked here, it was me. There's too much of a tendency to judge post of a minority opinion as as being a troll. A troll is a provocateur who's purpose is to rile up and disrupt a community. That some people had come in recently to call me a troll, immature, and a griefer for nothing other than admitting to being made in any way unpleasant, sad, or disappointed by a turn up, is highly disturbing.
Voicing a disappointment is healthy way for people to get relief in a situation they find unsatisfying. If many people in the community were simply saying "I am disappointed over the Final Fantasy XIV fatigue system, but I will have to grit my teeth and bear it." instead of provoking other fans of the series, I think the entire fanbase of this game would be in a lot better of a position right now. And the former, like I have done, is a lot more mature than what the majority of the Final Fantasy XIV fanbase is currently engaging in.

I, certainly, meant no means of sparking drama. I expressed honest disappointment, for my own relief. I did not intend to invoke hard feelings between members, which is my understanding of the term "drama" in it's usage on internet fora. And I wish that people would be more understanding when people are disappointed by an aspect of a game and voice so in a reasonable fashion, instead of blaming someone who is dogpiled of being a troll, immature, a griefer, or whatever derogatory label to draw further ire from the majority. It's this sort of thing that does exactly what a troll does to a community, make it more uncomfortable for people than it has to.

In any case, I'm feeling a little less annoyed by the name now, and my mind has gotten more used to the fact one very good and important thing has a very noticeable drawback, at least as far as more frivolous things as server names are concerned. And being able to voice my feelings on the matter here and elsewhere, like others, has certainly helped bring me to this more comfortable point. I'm still not comfortable with and never will be comfortable with this server name, but I'm not feeling that overwhelming shock I was feeling yesterday. Not enough to have been taking this too seriously in my mind yesterday that is, but enough that now I don't have half as big of a desire to express my disappointment as yesterday.

In any case, I'll always slightly cringe when I see that server name and am reminded I'm on it, and will always have to keep telling myself things like "it's just a name" or "it's the people on the server who matters" or pretending on on a server than I'm not and giving it a nickname. Like other have said, things like that happen. I was a little bit shocked that it was my least favorite, though. I still feel like ending this off with another vocalizing of my disappointment, I know I'm not going to likely get a number favorite name, that's highly unlikely and overexpecting, but it was a bit shocking and disappointing to be one of the few choices I actually hate. What a case of sore luck.

Tadir · **09-03-2010, 03:25 PM**

That was a lot of text. Just mentioning. And everyone is entitled to their opinion. It won't change though, so I see no point, on either side, about going on and on about this topic. We have the server. That's the important part. What it's called makes no difference.

Asyria · **09-03-2010, 03:26 PM**

We can all move on now, yes?
The longer this gets dragged on, the worse it's going to get.

BloodHecate · **09-03-2010, 03:53 PM**

I'm sorry, I felt like I had the need to respond to some later comments eventually.
I'll try to help this be dropped, then. Though I suppose that means this thread will die and not be heavily posted in later, as there's really not much to say on topic to such a subject, other than whether one likes or dislikes the name as we have done. What will go on in the server would probably come into another thread.

I'm glad to at least have a roleplaying community, on a happy, popular, well developed storyline epic Online Final Fantasy like XIV. And as I have stated at the very beginning, that's more important than having a cringe-causing, disliked, or whatever word I would use to describe the name. Just like I would rather even play this game under the lowest possible settings, than not at all.

Now, if I can only just have one of my applications accepted like I am very worried about.

Tadir · **09-03-2010, 03:56 PM**

Stick posts never die. They live on quietly, observing all only to rise again from the depths of obscurity into pertinent topics once AGAIN!
*Cue "Who wants to live forever" by Queen*

Asyria · **09-03-2010, 04:04 PM**

BloodHecate Wrote:I'm glad to at least have a roleplaying community, on a happy, popular, well developed storyline epic Online Final Fantasy like XIV. And as I have stated at the very beginning, that's more important than having a cringe-causing, disliked, or whatever word I would use to describe the name. Just like I would rather even play this game under the lowest possible settings, than not at all.

So very true!

Who waaaaaaaants to liiiiiiiiiiiive foreveeeeeeeeeeeer!

Tadir · **09-03-2010, 04:05 PM**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs

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