(07-01-2013, 04:33 AM)Mythicalbrit Wrote: So from what I am getting here most of the RPC members are heading to Balmung?Â
If so can some of the newer players(non 1.0ers) tell me why they feel the legacy members wont have such a big impact on their play? (just want to see how some of the newer players feels so I can try and decide if I should go balmung or not)
(07-01-2013, 04:46 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: How legacy players won't effect me?
Well, my reasoning is uh... kind of selfish and somewhat snotty The biggest reason I don't think Balmung legacy's will effect me is because there will be more of us than them. The Legacy RPers will have to adapt to the influx of new members or get left in the dust. The Beta forums was, at one point, trying to figure out how many people are actually "Legacy" but the most they could do was look up at the characters on XIVPADS. I think the number was 50,000 - 60,000. Total. That is TINY. On XIVPads there are 6,100 characters on Balmung, which ACTUALLY is not too bad so go Balmung. But the amount of those that roleplay may be in the low 100's. 100-200 people, if that. The core people who were really ingrained in heavy rp? Probably 30-40. Popular characters? 10-20. This numbers aren't scary numbers! SE is projecting much much bigger numbers of newbies than that. It's almost like a reset for Legacy players too. 90% of the people rolling on that server won't know who there characters are, or care. They have to prove themselves all over again.
Sure, they could stick to their little legacy group if they wanted, but they would become background noise if they did. Maybe they are okay with that, I don't know. But Legacy RPers are a nonissue.
Now we can talk about economy and server firsts or whatever, but right now I'm just specefically talking about the RP side of things
I also think this way, too, as ArmachiA does. I am not totally new...but I did not stick around too much in 1.0 either.
I guess "Server Firsts" are cool and while I'd like that...I really do not chase them or care too (unless I am with a group and get invited to do so or I luck into it...which probably will not happen). It's a non-issue with me.
I think any new people are just going to RP and bump into these group of RPC and naturally connect or continue doing what they are doing. While I do know about being "left out" because..."ELITISM!", I think generally, that's not the case.
Common sense-wise, look at it this way: Say v1.0 never ended. You are a new player coming to FF XIV and you wanted to find RPers on a server or the server with the most RPers. You search and find it. The game has been out for...8 months to a year, would you be intimidated just because there already were people who have an established RP presence there? It's just like any other long-running MMO that people try to track down the RP community. CoH. LotRO. SWToR. WoW. If the game has been running for many years already and they decide to roll on an RP server, the fact that there is already an established group of players is not going to scare them away! In fact, they may be drawn to it, even if all the "server firsts" have been covered (Is there even a "badge" for that in this game? I certainly don't care! Well, I care about leveling and equipment, but give me player-interaction of just being friendly in an OOC manner!)
Just because everyone gets a reboot...well, sheesh! How about this example: "Head-start"! Yes, you get your special code and key and get 3-7 days head start to play but the average person who picks up a copy when it hits the shelves does not. So, all these Head Start people have already formed Guilds and some probably already have done a few of the early "server firsts achievements" and are well on their way to do the later ones because they are ahead of you in levels.
In the long-run, this whole thing does not make sense. Yes, some may be concerned by putting a star or asterisk by their name or "This guy has levels on me" but this is not ANY DIFFERENT than any normal, long-running MMO.
When people worried that they could not create new characters on the Legacy server, sure. I'd be just as worried as them as I got cut-off from potential RP. I can empathize with that and a second server is cool. These other reasons? I just don't get it. It won't matter in a very short period of time after the launch, maybe even just one month after launch, it won't matter.
There definitely are people who know people here. Hardly anyone knows me here except...well, I will leave that mystery up in the air, although it isn't hard to guess for those who are astute and I won't deny it. This still does not scare me away from an "established" server with "established" players.