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(06-24-2013, 03:50 PM)Ellie Wrote:(06-24-2013, 03:21 PM)Crow Wrote: If we begin to talk numbers (and this is me assuming again, I know I really shouldn't) won't the influx of people be the majority over the established group that has been here for a while? If you really did want to see the RP community flourish wouldn't you do anything in your power to see it grow in the best way possible?Â
Actually from what we've seen, most of the newcomers to the RPC seem fine with rolling on Balmung, so I don't think it's really a matter of new players vs legacy players, but a matter of whether or not the people who want to roll on a new server outnumber the people who want to roll on Balmung.
And yes, we do want to do anything in our power to help the community grow and flourish, but attempting to force everyone to abandon their 1.0 characters would utterly destroy this community. Besides, after some time, there will no longer be any functional difference between joining a new server or a legacy server.
@first bold; this is very true, and unfortunately not something we can accurately measure in time before the actual game releases..Â
@second bold; that argument could be used for both sides when it comes down to it!
So here's the scenario I'll give you. If you were someone who RP'd and did not know of any established community except that there was a legacy RP server and a non-legacy RP server, which server do you think the new person would join? (knowing that legacy meant people from the 1.0 age)
I will say this; if no official non-legacy RP server is announced the community will most definitely be split..
(06-24-2013, 04:00 PM)Auralily Wrote:(06-24-2013, 03:48 PM)Crow Wrote: It's true there are things like lore we might need to get familiar with, but other than that we know our way around Roleplay.. and after coming from the Tera RP community, I just want to be in the place with the most people.
Why is anyone comparing FFXIV's community to Tera's community, of all communities? Tera's RP community is the worst I've ever been in, and out of the games I've RP'd in (WoW, TOR, TSW, GW2, Aion, Tera) Tera is the -only- community I couldn't get into. The only game I started with on at launch was Guild Wars 2, and I still made made a place in all of those games but.. Tera. The entire universe's Roleplaying community in any game should never be compared to Tera. Never ever.
Edit: Not a personal attack on you Crow, you're the third person I've seen do it on the forums, and I don't know how many times I saw it in Shout chat on Gilgamesh in Phase 2, first round beta.
No offense taken seeing as I agree with you. It's simply the only thing I can compare my RP experience to, as that's where I rekindled my passion to RP. I played Aion for over a year and didn't RP there, and my only other RP inclusion was chat-based back on P2P sharing networks almost 10 years ago.Â
Though I will say I'm seeing an eerie correlation when it comes to Elins and the cat-race of this game..