(06-05-2017, 02:53 AM)Swanmay Wrote: That's all well and good, but the server is locked to everyone who wants to join an RP community, and will be for the forseeable future. With nowhere to go, those RP'ers not currently on Balmung can have a home to start another community on the EU data centre. The community is already fragmented because of this. Furthermore, MMOs can have more than one RP community and be successful. Look at WoW as an example, two large servers (Wyrmrest Accord and Moon Guard) and that's only the US side. The EU side also have a couple of, albeit small but no less succesful servers.
Lastly, roleplayers are the minority. The needs of the many come before the needs of the few as it happens, and while SE seems to do more than most other companies with regards to being specifically RP friendly, they wont designate Balmung as their official RP server. It would be nice, but it's unrealistic.
Wow also has an enormously larger population than FFXIV, so yes, it has the bodies to accommodate two major RP servers. Plenty of them. FFXIV doesn't get even close, so it's much more convenient to keep the vast majority of the RP population focused in one place.
I wouldn't be so sure that, at least on Balmung, RPers (including heavy and light) are a minority. And I certainly don't agree that SE seems to do more than most in being RP-friendly. They never did the most basic of the RP-friendly things, which is giving us a RP server.
Personally, I won't contribute to the fragmentation of the RP community, like I didn't when people pushed the split between Balmung and Gilgamesh (which crashed and bushed for obvious reasons). If others want to leave, that's their prerogative, but I have the feeling that they're gonna regret it on the long run.
