Truth be told, I don't think I would move unless most of my immediate friends/RP partners along with most of my FC (including all the leadership) and LS (also including all the leadership) were down to move. And only if I could move back if things ended up not panning out for whatever reason, either because people decided to just not move or because the people I currently RP with or have a vested interest in RPing with decide to move back or stay behind.
I don't think most of the RP community on Balmung would move, though, truth be told -- regardless of whether an official RP server was created/designated or not. Even if it was free and even if people could take everything with them (housing tokens or something, which I honestly think is a pipe dream because even with the moving feature they're implementing, you still have to buy the plot for full server price. I also do not think that letting people have special tokens to automatically have/buy a house is a good idea in general).
There are immaterial things that Square Enix cannot be reasonably expected to replace in the move over, such as RP connections and the like, and I don't think that the rules and distinctions that would come with being on an "RP" server (like the lore-compliant name thing? What if a character goes by an alias? Can SE be reasonably expected to monitor backstories and alter-egos?) would necessarily sit well with everyone who RPs. Plus there's the fact that PvE/PvP players might transfer to watch RP and be with their RPer friends, and it would kind of be unfair to make them change their names for "muh immersun" unless said name changes were also free. Realistically beyond that, PvE and PvP players would have nothing to lose by transferring to an RP server along with the RPers due to the cross-world party finder and stuff, unless it was placed on a different datacenter (which considering that Aether has both of the super-highpop NA servers, it probably would be I'd think? Primal definitely has population disparities but I'd think it's a bit more evenly-spread than Aether given the absence of the population black holes that are Balmung and Gilgamesh) which might make things a little more complicated for them...
... Of course all this changes if they were to add additional actual functionality to an RP server in order to enhance the RP experience. Then I might be a little quicker to the draw. Like if they added some small extra emotes (can I have that hand-waving thing Alphinaud does when he's explaining stuff please?!), or gave a discount for emotes on the Mogstation if you sent it to a character on an RP server, which they could cover by jacking up the price of Fantasias if it were sent to characters on RP servers. :^)
... Or even just raised the character limit a bit (One extra line?) on search comments for character info/bio links (an in-game way to have short character bios would sell me immediately on an RP server actually) or world PFs for advertisements. Stuff like that. Asking them to make an RP server already is, imo, already pretty unrealistic -- so may as well go ham with all of my hopes and dreams if it were to happen...
I don't think most of the RP community on Balmung would move, though, truth be told -- regardless of whether an official RP server was created/designated or not. Even if it was free and even if people could take everything with them (housing tokens or something, which I honestly think is a pipe dream because even with the moving feature they're implementing, you still have to buy the plot for full server price. I also do not think that letting people have special tokens to automatically have/buy a house is a good idea in general).
There are immaterial things that Square Enix cannot be reasonably expected to replace in the move over, such as RP connections and the like, and I don't think that the rules and distinctions that would come with being on an "RP" server (like the lore-compliant name thing? What if a character goes by an alias? Can SE be reasonably expected to monitor backstories and alter-egos?) would necessarily sit well with everyone who RPs. Plus there's the fact that PvE/PvP players might transfer to watch RP and be with their RPer friends, and it would kind of be unfair to make them change their names for "muh immersun" unless said name changes were also free. Realistically beyond that, PvE and PvP players would have nothing to lose by transferring to an RP server along with the RPers due to the cross-world party finder and stuff, unless it was placed on a different datacenter (which considering that Aether has both of the super-highpop NA servers, it probably would be I'd think? Primal definitely has population disparities but I'd think it's a bit more evenly-spread than Aether given the absence of the population black holes that are Balmung and Gilgamesh) which might make things a little more complicated for them...
... Of course all this changes if they were to add additional actual functionality to an RP server in order to enhance the RP experience. Then I might be a little quicker to the draw. Like if they added some small extra emotes (can I have that hand-waving thing Alphinaud does when he's explaining stuff please?!), or gave a discount for emotes on the Mogstation if you sent it to a character on an RP server, which they could cover by jacking up the price of Fantasias if it were sent to characters on RP servers. :^)
... Or even just raised the character limit a bit (One extra line?) on search comments for character info/bio links (an in-game way to have short character bios would sell me immediately on an RP server actually) or world PFs for advertisements. Stuff like that. Asking them to make an RP server already is, imo, already pretty unrealistic -- so may as well go ham with all of my hopes and dreams if it were to happen...
