(11-18-2017, 03:02 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: snip
Wouldn't people quitting Balmung be exactly what SE wants to happen before they open up the server again? It seems awfully unlikely that the vast majority of RPers would quit RPing on Balmung, but continue logging into it in such high numbers doing other activities that the server would remain locked. Or we could assume that if the case is that non-RPers on Balmung have a large enough population to keep the server locked, that people would then transfer to other RP servers.
I don't think we're in any danger of FFXIV losing some large amount of RPers. They may shuffle around on different servers, but that was already happening. And the same would happen if they were all on the same server as well.
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So again, I'd ask whether this is a fear of not being able to find new experiences or new people to RP with, or a fear of lacking newbies on the server who aren't already part of someone else's RP? Like the feeling I get from these types of threads is that there's a bigger concern about no new people to indoctrinate or "get into RP" than there is about not being able to find new RP connections.
People namechange and buy fantasias all the time. Balmung isn't going to just suddenly run out of character ideas. And if/when the population has subsided, it would be opened again to replenish and population shortages, which do seem pretty unlikely to happen when the active population still doubles the soft cap.
