(05-19-2017, 05:28 PM)Kage Wrote: <snip>The real question is: Is Balmung so big that if it stays at its current levels during patch lull and pre-expansion lull, that SE will decide to split it anyway as it did the FFXI server?
I don't think we have any way to know, but my guess is they're probably already planning on a server split and they're waiting until after the expansion sales plateau so that they can prevent financial blowback (because if they reorganized servers right now, there would almost certainly be a significant dip in initial sales volume of Stormblood).Â
Locking down the server is, IMO, Step 1 of the plan. Step 2 will be incentives, which will be insufficient to budge most players because they will probably miss the mark as to what's important to the players. We have 26k according to that chart. Even if 25% leave due to incentives (which would be a spectacularly successful outcome), that still leaves 19,500 on Balmung, which is still more than the population of the next most populous server Gilgamesh which is also locked down right now. I just don't see another likely outcome for Balmung other than a split.
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