I am going to try my best to not sound even remotely snobbish or elitist here. So please, read this in your minds as such. This post is not an attack or a prod, but an actual, honest question and opinion held solely by me from my experience.Â
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If you are considering re-voting and selecting a new server on which to play, why not select Balmung and join the original section of the community under a single banner? I've never really understood from a Role Play perspective as for why people wanted to roll on another server to begin with. I can and do understand it's their choice to do so, but I do not however understand why. The existing player base has been here for almost three years. That's three years of experience, teamwork, story and friendship. We aren't going anyways and are always welcoming to new players even after the original launch. Some joined even towards the end of the era and they were accepted like they had been around since the start.
The only two reasons I can see people wanting to start on another server are the "SERVER FIRST" people and the Hardcore player base who do not want to RP but instead to grind out content as fast as possible so they can lord around in their +1 STR subligar or what have you. Seeing how Role Players tend to focus on endgame second or third, rather then first, this shouldn't be an issue.
But yet, here we are, with a community split over a simple issue that sounds often time like "We don't want to play with the older kids" because of one bad experience in the past with someone else in another community from a different game. It's disheartening.
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If you are considering re-voting and selecting a new server on which to play, why not select Balmung and join the original section of the community under a single banner? I've never really understood from a Role Play perspective as for why people wanted to roll on another server to begin with. I can and do understand it's their choice to do so, but I do not however understand why. The existing player base has been here for almost three years. That's three years of experience, teamwork, story and friendship. We aren't going anyways and are always welcoming to new players even after the original launch. Some joined even towards the end of the era and they were accepted like they had been around since the start.
The only two reasons I can see people wanting to start on another server are the "SERVER FIRST" people and the Hardcore player base who do not want to RP but instead to grind out content as fast as possible so they can lord around in their +1 STR subligar or what have you. Seeing how Role Players tend to focus on endgame second or third, rather then first, this shouldn't be an issue.
But yet, here we are, with a community split over a simple issue that sounds often time like "We don't want to play with the older kids" because of one bad experience in the past with someone else in another community from a different game. It's disheartening.
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