Instancing, server populations and other stuff...

Okay so where to start, first and foremost I think the biggest issue with the game atm is the fact server populations are so unbalanced, while on the surface the numbers may look healthy, most the servers have extremely high jp populations and despite your wonderful auto-translate system, many players don't feel comfortable playing interacially (yes, I'm fed up of being told jp-orny), this leaves most the EU/US (read especially EU) with little-nothing or no one to play with as things currently stand, I'm not sure what to suggest as an immediate fix to this issue, perhaps offer regional-only servers for people to transfer to which (hopefully?) have a higher target player base?

Secondly, instancing is -terrible- there's just no other way to say it, every piece of content that requires you to entered an instanced battlefield is congested to the point I'm typing this while sat in front of the AR2 entrance spamming enter attempting to get in. Yes, its great when you pay for a service, you can't actually use. Absolutely great.

Well thats about it and lets be clear, I still enjoy FFXI (into my 9th continuous years and still enjoying it, I must be a glutton for punishment), the game concept I enjoy, the current serious hardware and software issues leading to 30-60min wait times on entry (or complete inability all together) to actually play the content paid for I do not.

Well it's been 2 weeks of fighting my way through AR2. OR any battle field for that instance. And all SE does is wortless maints on the zone. Been doing one every day, sometimes more than one. Should be clear by now thats not gonna fix the problem. The problem here is battlefield sharing same instancies. Right now i'm thinking they don't really care and are trying to destroy the game, considering someone adressed the problem on a different battlefield thread and their answer was "we know about this but instead of fixing the problem we'll just gonna add more battlefields and screw you over even more"

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Originally Posted by Caradog

Okay so where to start, first and foremost I think the biggest issue with the game atm is the fact server populations are so unbalanced, while on the surface the numbers may look healthy, most the servers have extremely high jp populations

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Personally I think NA/EU players needs to gather on some specific server. Either SE can start it or by community. That's probably the best solution I can think of.