(08-28-2013, 12:09 PM)Theodric Brandt Wrote: I don't think we actually need an official role-playing server. Both GW2 and FFXIV have launched without any and yet they still have a pretty huge and active community of role-players. I think the community is stronger for it, since if people want to role-play they need to put a bit more effort in than usual which helps to avoid stagnation.
Furthermore, an 'official' server tag is meaningless unless it's going to be enforced and I've long since resigned myself to the simple fact that no modern MMO is going to ban or punish players tormenting role-players or breaching naming conventions as such a move would be terrible for PR. Not that I mind, since most players are fine with role-players provided it isn't forced upon them or they aren't exposed to some of the darker stuff that goes on beneath the surface such as public ERP.
This has nothing to do with whether or not we need an official RP server. That topic has come and gone. In late beta 3 they added new servers and tried to force people to roll on them by locking all the current worlds. I saw the possibility of that happening again.
Right now, the official servers are a train wreck. If SE plans on adding new servers, the idea of official RP servers was suggested because it would actually give a community (ours) a reason to jump from Balmung/Gilgamesh to the new ones. It would give us RPers new servers that aren't overloaded while at the same time reducing load on Balmung and Gilgamesh.
Of course, if SE plans on bolstering the capacity of the current worlds via server upgrades, rather then adding new servers, then this point is moot.
