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(06-06-2013, 11:57 AM)Blade Wrote:(06-06-2013, 11:32 AM)Lanos Blaquesun Wrote: When people come to this site they see Hydaelin Roleplayers Community
Not Hydaelin Roleplayers Community Balmung Server.
How bout that FFXIV rp community feel eh? I gotta say some of the responses here by the Legacy community come off a bit condescending.
The reason it is not called the Balmung roleplaying community is this:
More than two years ago, there was an attempt to collectively gather all the roleplayers onto a single server, to keep all the roleplayers together and not separated across servers as was the situation in XI. Â The site was meant to serve as a hub. Â
When the server names were announced, the community there at the time put names of a server to a vote; and Besaid (which would later become Balmung) was picked by the community on a majority rule basis to be the roleplaying server.
At the time, the site was pretty much the central roleplaying community of Final Fantasy XIV and that's where the name came from, and that collective community voted on a server. Â Read: This was not a group of people who started on Besaid/Balmung and then told everyone else to come to them. Â It was the community, representing the FFXIV roleplaying community as a whole (or at least, the largest RP community around for FFXIV at the time) that picked Besaid/Balmung. Â
That is the reason why it is called Hydaelyn Roleplayers and not FFXIV Balmung Roleplaying community. Â It has also been mentioned several times in previous posts that the community also supported roleplaying communities outside of Besaid/Balmung, though they did not fair well. Â But there's a reason why on the Linkshell pages a group is allowed to specify what server they are on. Â By and large, nearly shell you see there will be represented on Balmung, as the roleplayers who come here often want to be where there will be the majority of roleplayers.
But I want to say it again; this was not a community that sprung from Balmung and wanted others to train to them. Â The community existed before servers were named, and when they were named, a server was picked to centralize our efforts.
I know what the real answer is, but let me say this, by reading the posts of the legacy players would you say that your response would be apparent in their reactions?
A good FFXIV lore site: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Eorzea