(05-22-2017, 12:04 AM)Sig Wrote: You seem to appear to confuse disagreement with the ability to understand and process arguments. I've considered each and every counter argument and disagree. I don't exactly take posts offered by at most 15 people to refute basic, intuitive arguments we all take for granted.
Think about this: would we have anywhere near as vibrant, healthy, sustainable, and diverse an RP community if Balmung was not a centralized RP hub? The answer is no. We have enjoyed the benefits of a centralized RP hub for years. Reversing this and fragmenting the community could harm RP for all roleplayers for the reasons stated in the OP. No one is standing in line to transfer from Balmung right now for this very reason; at most people are rolling alts to show support. The vast majority of the FFXIV RP community depends on a centralized RP hub. They may not advocate for this expressly, but it's something most value.
I've already pointed out a dozen times how SE could alleviate this problem in a way that would not harm the RP community: reverse the transfer restriction (and implement alternative population control measures) or simply designate an official RP server. Nothing else will work.
1.) Literally no MMO has ever had a centralized server for RP and it's worked just fine. Yes, eventually they died. And guess what? Eventually this RP community will to. That's what happens.
2.) Change isn't bad. If you're afraid of it, that's on you. But it needs to happen for multiple beneficial reasons.
3.) And we've pointed out a million times that reversing the transfer restriction will destroy the servers and cause more issues. You, on the other hand, apparently don't know how infrastructure and servers work. They don't have infinite space. Balmung alone has caused the entire branch to crash. Designating an official RP server may be on their list but it's not the most important thing they can do. I'd rather they make sure the launch for Stormblood isn't complete ass before investing the time, money, and resources in either making a new server or putting <RP> on the end of a server's name just to appease people that don't have the capability of making decisions on their own.
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