Hello Risheid,
While I'm not familiar with the exact distribution of players. I can say with confidence that RP on both servers isn't "far and few between" the informal, inviteless Coffer & Coffin event on the 5th had some 40 attendees alone, and the Formal Cold Moon Gala had some 200.
Legacy simply dictates a "mature" (read: pre-existing) community of people from the previous incarnation of FFXIV. There are of course a large amount of new players on both servers. The limitation being that Legacy characters cannot be transferred to "new" servers. Where as new characters can go to either.
A note on the non-RP communities, Gilgamesh supports the /r/ffxiv subreddit from reddit.com if you know people there you would be more likely to find them on Gilgamesh. Balmung has a large population from the server mergers in 1.0, active in both PVE and up and coming PVP.
While I won't go so far as to say they are the same. They are hardly as drastically different (of course this is anecdotal.) as some would make them appear.
Either way, I would, if Roleplay is your primary incentive, suggest transferring.
Please feel free to message me in game or ask any further questions here. Best of luck and hope to see you in Eorzea soon!
While I'm not familiar with the exact distribution of players. I can say with confidence that RP on both servers isn't "far and few between" the informal, inviteless Coffer & Coffin event on the 5th had some 40 attendees alone, and the Formal Cold Moon Gala had some 200.
Legacy simply dictates a "mature" (read: pre-existing) community of people from the previous incarnation of FFXIV. There are of course a large amount of new players on both servers. The limitation being that Legacy characters cannot be transferred to "new" servers. Where as new characters can go to either.
A note on the non-RP communities, Gilgamesh supports the /r/ffxiv subreddit from reddit.com if you know people there you would be more likely to find them on Gilgamesh. Balmung has a large population from the server mergers in 1.0, active in both PVE and up and coming PVP.
While I won't go so far as to say they are the same. They are hardly as drastically different (of course this is anecdotal.) as some would make them appear.
Either way, I would, if Roleplay is your primary incentive, suggest transferring.
Please feel free to message me in game or ask any further questions here. Best of luck and hope to see you in Eorzea soon!
