1) RP is a big part of MMOs for me (big enough to quit/not start playing over it), and as far as I know, Balmung is the "go to" RP server (not an official one like in case of WoW, but regardless).
2) My friend (whom I met in WoW around WotLK, we used to be in the same guilds through WotLK and part of Cataclysm) plays there (also for RP reasons).
As for transferring, if I'd have to transfer one character, and then would be able to roll new ones there to my heart's content (Which would be quite logical thing to allow, if someone has a character there, I mean, it's not like they can play more than one at the time, on the same account, right? So it wouldn't increase the server queues or load.) then I could go for it, but each and every new one, pass. (I know you can have all classes/jobs on one character, but I would likely want to have more eventually, again because of RP, different races, genders, etc., otherwise I'd end up with something like WoW's "((Not a DK IC))" but worse, imagine a female Lalafell with RP description "Is actually a male Roegadyn"
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