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I'll toss my feelings in with the rest here.
So far it seems like there are some Legacy players whose roleplay does not interest me all that much, however all of the ones I've encountered have been nothing but friendly folks and helpful on this site, patient with newbies and informative with regard to the lore.
I say this because I see the number of server choices as being rather unfortunate for this community, as many people I've seen who are going to Gilgamesh seem to be doing so because of some beef with "Legacy players" (Some of them? All of them? No one's been all that specific). The people going to Behemoth are definitely doing so because they don't like this community, I hear.
But I'm not going to talk about Legacy players and their detractors. If we take them out of the equation, there's not a great reason to choose Balmung over Gilgamesh, or Gilgamesh over Balmung. I'm not even all that worried about griefers, because I've never been worried about griefers--I don't even blacklist them unless they get spammy while I'm typing.
So to me it just looks like there's not a good choice or a bad one, one way or the other, and the fact that there is a choice at all only serves to divide this community and foster loyalism, as people in this thread defend their server choice and make inferences about the server they didn't choose.
I'm discouraged by this community attitude.
@Toxa, I think the worst thing people could do now is vote for a new server. And Rock is right--there will be griefers everywhere. You learn to deal with them or you learn to ignore them, but it's rare that there are ever enough of them to really drive roleplayers out or meaningfully disrupt a roleplaying community. They aren't the norm.
@Rock, no offense, but the Wyrmrest Accord server is not a good example of a thriving server for Gilgamesh to aspire to by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe that server started as a shining bastion of hope for folks who were fed up with Moonguard and Thorium Brotherhood and elsewhere, but hostility and resentment resulted in that community practically closing its gates to new players and each other in later years, becoming a collection of isolated guilds floating in the aether.
I don't know how it's faring nowadays, but that's why I'm suspicious of communities that splinter away from larger communities due to some kind of strife.
I also don't think it's fair to say that the OP here has made their server choice. I like to think that there are many people like me who are still trying to decide, still feeling out the elements of this community in order to make a server choice that--make no mistake--is rather difficult.
We stand to lose out on roleplay with cool people either way unless we make a character on both servers, and then comes the often unrealistic expectation that we're able to sustain characters on both servers equally. That is quite a task. Further, for many it will come down to where their friends go, and some stand to leave friends behind if not all of ones friends choose the same server.
I'm not offering any answers here, I'm sorry to say. I only wanted to offer my perspective as a newcomer, because I think that a lot of the members here may be able to relate.
So far it seems like there are some Legacy players whose roleplay does not interest me all that much, however all of the ones I've encountered have been nothing but friendly folks and helpful on this site, patient with newbies and informative with regard to the lore.
I say this because I see the number of server choices as being rather unfortunate for this community, as many people I've seen who are going to Gilgamesh seem to be doing so because of some beef with "Legacy players" (Some of them? All of them? No one's been all that specific). The people going to Behemoth are definitely doing so because they don't like this community, I hear.
But I'm not going to talk about Legacy players and their detractors. If we take them out of the equation, there's not a great reason to choose Balmung over Gilgamesh, or Gilgamesh over Balmung. I'm not even all that worried about griefers, because I've never been worried about griefers--I don't even blacklist them unless they get spammy while I'm typing.
So to me it just looks like there's not a good choice or a bad one, one way or the other, and the fact that there is a choice at all only serves to divide this community and foster loyalism, as people in this thread defend their server choice and make inferences about the server they didn't choose.
I'm discouraged by this community attitude.
@Toxa, I think the worst thing people could do now is vote for a new server. And Rock is right--there will be griefers everywhere. You learn to deal with them or you learn to ignore them, but it's rare that there are ever enough of them to really drive roleplayers out or meaningfully disrupt a roleplaying community. They aren't the norm.
@Rock, no offense, but the Wyrmrest Accord server is not a good example of a thriving server for Gilgamesh to aspire to by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe that server started as a shining bastion of hope for folks who were fed up with Moonguard and Thorium Brotherhood and elsewhere, but hostility and resentment resulted in that community practically closing its gates to new players and each other in later years, becoming a collection of isolated guilds floating in the aether.
I don't know how it's faring nowadays, but that's why I'm suspicious of communities that splinter away from larger communities due to some kind of strife.
I also don't think it's fair to say that the OP here has made their server choice. I like to think that there are many people like me who are still trying to decide, still feeling out the elements of this community in order to make a server choice that--make no mistake--is rather difficult.
We stand to lose out on roleplay with cool people either way unless we make a character on both servers, and then comes the often unrealistic expectation that we're able to sustain characters on both servers equally. That is quite a task. Further, for many it will come down to where their friends go, and some stand to leave friends behind if not all of ones friends choose the same server.
I'm not offering any answers here, I'm sorry to say. I only wanted to offer my perspective as a newcomer, because I think that a lot of the members here may be able to relate.