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This is my #1 selling point for EVE Online. One Shard. ONE Shard. There is no debate. No new EVE player will ever have to ask which server is the best for this, that, or the other. If you play EVE then you play EVE. In a game with as many loading zones as FFXIV has (partially due to RAM constraints on the PS3) I see absolutely no excuse beyond MMO traditionalism to keep the entire FFXIV player base as a single realm. Each physical server would still fulfill a function and support different zones within that realm. But, of course, this will never happen as SE has gone with a more familiar format.
Since my dream for the FFXIV world will never be possible, I am forced to make a choice. As I have said before, and as Nate seems to have indicated, I have chosen Balmung as my home out of respect for those who have blazed the trail before me and worked hard through a mechanically horrendous game to provide the best and brightest community they possibly could. I would see it as a slap in the face to tell those who have worked so hard, "Thanks, but I'm going to play somewhere else so I don't have to be with anyone who is level 50." That said, I'm not saying that everyone who is rolling on any server than Balmung feels that way. I'm also not saying that rolling on another server is due to malicious intent in any way. But regardless of the intent, no one can argue that this does divide the RP community.
Other forums indicate that there will be RP communities beyond even the two that will be supported here. Each server is going to have to fight for its ability to thrive and that means competition over resources. In this case, the resource is a new player. There is absolutely no way to completely eliminate this competition unless both communities are 100% equal in every single way, which is never going to happen even if we try. And if you set up a rule so that no one on the forum can make a post to sway a new person's opinion one way or the other, simply laying out facts about Server B and Server G, the majority of players are going to pick the larger community by default and the small server still loses.
I sincerely hope that each and every person who plays this game, RPer or not, finds the server that is most cohesive with what they think is fun. I wish the players of Gilgamesh and other servers the best of success in building something great. Just please understand that eliminating the competition for new players is impossible. It goes against human nature. We just have to be as sportsmanlike with that competition as possible.
Since my dream for the FFXIV world will never be possible, I am forced to make a choice. As I have said before, and as Nate seems to have indicated, I have chosen Balmung as my home out of respect for those who have blazed the trail before me and worked hard through a mechanically horrendous game to provide the best and brightest community they possibly could. I would see it as a slap in the face to tell those who have worked so hard, "Thanks, but I'm going to play somewhere else so I don't have to be with anyone who is level 50." That said, I'm not saying that everyone who is rolling on any server than Balmung feels that way. I'm also not saying that rolling on another server is due to malicious intent in any way. But regardless of the intent, no one can argue that this does divide the RP community.
Other forums indicate that there will be RP communities beyond even the two that will be supported here. Each server is going to have to fight for its ability to thrive and that means competition over resources. In this case, the resource is a new player. There is absolutely no way to completely eliminate this competition unless both communities are 100% equal in every single way, which is never going to happen even if we try. And if you set up a rule so that no one on the forum can make a post to sway a new person's opinion one way or the other, simply laying out facts about Server B and Server G, the majority of players are going to pick the larger community by default and the small server still loses.
I sincerely hope that each and every person who plays this game, RPer or not, finds the server that is most cohesive with what they think is fun. I wish the players of Gilgamesh and other servers the best of success in building something great. Just please understand that eliminating the competition for new players is impossible. It goes against human nature. We just have to be as sportsmanlike with that competition as possible.