(08-25-2013, 03:03 PM)belderiver Wrote: I think it's frankly ridiculous that an alternative to Gilgamesh isn't being declared. Nobody knew about the server load issues at the time of its selection, but it's become obvious now that it's a problem and a serious barrier of access - and more than that, that the problem will continue in the form of long queue times into the foreseeable future, even if character creation is unlocked. It is obvious Square-Enix is struggling with managing their servers, and now is the time to choose and declare an alternative.She's right you know?
Arguments that the people who are on Gilgamesh are having fun, or that the RP community may be splintered are completely immaterial. The reality of the situation is that NOT declaring an alternative server will scatter the RP community across all of the servers that didn't want to put up with Gilgamesh's issues as opposed to separating it into three fairly reasonably sized populations.
More than that, people who have successfully rolled on Balmung and Gilgamesh won't be affected at all! I can't believe the people in this thread who are basically arguing that it's fine because they had a good time. You can continue to have a good time if everyone else who doesn't have the opportunity to play with you knows where to go!
Some of the same arguments for and against Balmung when a secondary server was demanded are now being made by people on Gilgamesh.
It is something I think to be fair that all community members need to consider. Saying that we don't want to fracture the community anymore is not doing justice to the people who don't want to play on a legacy sever and don't want to play on a heavily populated server.
We should be showing people who post these concerns the same understandings that those who wanted the second server begged for.
This is the state we created by splintering. It is also now only fair to listen to those who do not desire load times due to high server populations the same as those who demanded a new 'fresh' start on a non-legacy server.
To ignore these calls for another server would be just as bad if we told everyone who didn't want to play on a Legacy server to bug off.
We can't have it both ways. Once one group of concerns was addressed by naming a second server. Now because what could be a community that could rival the size of any other (we would not know unless they are given a chance to get into game together on a server) is asking for another server named because of concerns they have, they are not having their concerns addressed.
Please consider these players' pleas in a thoughtful manner.
Thank you.
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