I'm not going to tell people who want to play the game a certain way that they, in fact, can't play it that way until they get to a server that's locked - and could be locked for a long, long while. I'm never going to tell people how they should play the game. And saying "We all need to be on Balmung, don't make a second server" is in fact telling them that. They pay 15 a month, they deserve to be able to roleplay as well.
Balmung's rp community won't die for a while yet, We can afford to help build a community on Mataeus or wherever we're throwing our support. We should be worried if it gets into 4 or 5 months (A legit concern) but Balmung will not go down in flames come Stormblood's launch without new folk. WE'RE FINE for a little while. We can take those few months of "fine" and help newer rpers get what they want out of the game. We have our connections and our houses and our friends and our community, and the new players can't join that. Telling them they have no other option and shrugging our shoulders at them going "Whelp too bad, wait for Balmung" is something I, personally, refuse to do.
I know how frustrating it can be to not play where you want to play (I started on a PVP server with my friends in WoW, I hated every minute of it because I wanted to be on an RP server... I eventually moved anyway) and how you want to play.
Balmung's rp community won't die for a while yet, We can afford to help build a community on Mataeus or wherever we're throwing our support. We should be worried if it gets into 4 or 5 months (A legit concern) but Balmung will not go down in flames come Stormblood's launch without new folk. WE'RE FINE for a little while. We can take those few months of "fine" and help newer rpers get what they want out of the game. We have our connections and our houses and our friends and our community, and the new players can't join that. Telling them they have no other option and shrugging our shoulders at them going "Whelp too bad, wait for Balmung" is something I, personally, refuse to do.
I know how frustrating it can be to not play where you want to play (I started on a PVP server with my friends in WoW, I hated every minute of it because I wanted to be on an RP server... I eventually moved anyway) and how you want to play.
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