(05-20-2017, 04:31 PM)EliBallard Wrote:(05-20-2017, 02:31 PM)Kage Wrote: To be fair, there is a sizeable portion of roleplayers who dislike RPC for any myriad of reasons. The question is: did people check or get enough social presence to get the word out to those communities?If they don't have a presence capable of knowing something like this is going on in any way, shape or form, they don't have enough of an infrastructure or base to support a community.
I follow a fairly wide amount of FFXIV people. You know what I see?
A) Don't panic no one is leaving Balmung. Nothing's happening.
B) Hey guys I know Balmung is closed. Come check out the community I am a part of on _____!
Nothing very widespread about getting large community efforts across all worlds to coming up with an alternative for NA. Just comments about "I don't think this is a bad idea to do it."
The majority of any similar effort I have seen has been on this forum with a small amount of those on the official forums and the even smaller tiny effort on the subreddit. I've seen the effort for EU on social media (tumblr, twitter, facebook).
Until this very week I didn't know that there was any presence of any large form on Mateus. I knew of Jenova's, Faerie's, and Siren's. I knew there might still be a struggling one linkshell on Midgardsomr as well as on Brynhildr.