I think most of the arguments both ways have been summed up.
Let me toss in my logic as a non-legacy player for choosing Balmung. (Yes, yes, I realize my registration date is from 2010, but I only played XIV for like a week post-beta.) Because of the misconceptions surrounding Legacy servers and the existence of a small, but dedicated extant RP community, for some, there's an inherent barrier to entry to joining Balmung. Since the "server first" endgame on Balmung is guaranteed to be locked in from day 1 by the existing progression crowd on the server (all of whom will be starting in on the raid content pretty much immediately), the only reason why a person would choose Balmung is for RP.
As a result, I expect to see (and the flawed, though interesting, server choice survey shows this) a higher population of RPers per capita on Balmung than on any other server. Since my primary objective is RP, that makes my choice easy.
While I'm sure your crew can have a great time on whichever server you choose, I personally want to be on the server with the highest probability of any person I run into being an RPer or, at least, RP friendly. It seems to me that Balmung is that server.
Let me toss in my logic as a non-legacy player for choosing Balmung. (Yes, yes, I realize my registration date is from 2010, but I only played XIV for like a week post-beta.) Because of the misconceptions surrounding Legacy servers and the existence of a small, but dedicated extant RP community, for some, there's an inherent barrier to entry to joining Balmung. Since the "server first" endgame on Balmung is guaranteed to be locked in from day 1 by the existing progression crowd on the server (all of whom will be starting in on the raid content pretty much immediately), the only reason why a person would choose Balmung is for RP.
As a result, I expect to see (and the flawed, though interesting, server choice survey shows this) a higher population of RPers per capita on Balmung than on any other server. Since my primary objective is RP, that makes my choice easy.
While I'm sure your crew can have a great time on whichever server you choose, I personally want to be on the server with the highest probability of any person I run into being an RPer or, at least, RP friendly. It seems to me that Balmung is that server.
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