Can we haz a merge

Asura is feeling seriously deserted lately on average only 1k people, how about other servers?

You know Asura is the place to be best server ever! :D:D

Yeah, my server at times has 600-700 people up to 1400, you know a lot of them are mules and people afk.

Heh.. FFXIV was released earlier this week... and they had to close all the NA/EU servers due to overcrowding after a day...

school time & FFXIV came out around the same time. it will be back to normal soon

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Originally Posted by nyheen

school time & FFXIV came out around the same time. it will be back to normal soon

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Wish I had your optimism! lol

Cerb has failed to reach 1.5k since I came back from a break two weeks ago. Today was the lowest I have ever seen the game in the 8 years iv been playing (600 players) and that's not taking into account the mules,bots, elite statues etc...

I hate to think there's a chance Cerb might be closed down and its population moved after we were lucky enough to survive the last round with Hade's added to us. However its to the point now that unless your in a stable endgame(ish) ls there's no point in trying to gain good gear etc...

I'm jealous of anything consistently over 1000.

Valefor is pretty dead, I don't check it every day but it's pretty normal to see ~600 people in the afternoon.

I'm sure the server populations are so low now that they could be consolidated into 2-4 servers total.

No thanks... I like my name and don't want to lose it. u-u; And over half of the servers have a Meyi on them already.

Think they'd shut down low populated servers and merge low populated ones together so XIV has more space?

under 600 on valefor yeah, we can't even fill delve bossrun shouts with appropriate jobs or spend hours shouting.
They will probably have to merge or people will just unsubscribe out of lack of anything to do because SoA gear made all old content pointless.

Give it a month or so. People will leave XIV after they're first free 30 days are up. I don't mean everyone but the game just doesn't have enough to it yet to hold a very large population.

1764 on Fenrir right now. Seems fine to me.

1300+ on Asura right now, weekday work/school time still. Seems perfectly fine.

Its been 600-650 on Cerberus during NA time the last week. I bet 400+ are AFK or mules. My LS alone has 20 some mules online.

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Originally Posted by Sapphires

under 600 on valefor yeah, we can't even fill delve bossrun shouts with appropriate jobs or spend hours shouting.
They will probably have to merge or people will just unsubscribe out of lack of anything to do because SoA gear made all old content pointless.

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Yeah, even during JP time, Valefor gets pretty empty. It's no wonder that it took our NA linkshells so long to win at Delve, what with the depleted player pool.

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Originally Posted by Taint2

Its been 600-650 on Cerberus during NA time the last week. I bet 400+ are AFK or mules. My LS alone has 20 some mules online.

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I can attest to that. I've been on a few times recently where its less than 750 and most of them are in town.

20+ mules LOL I wander how many people actually play this game.

700ish during week days on Quetz up to 1200 or 1300 on weekeneds

Yeah FFXIV servers are so packed, its almost impossible to even login. Me and a friend had to make characters on other servers together just to play.

The game itself is different. I'm sure people who love FFXI will come back. Especially those who have played so long and accomplished many things in 11.

The way I see FFXIV? It's too easy. Too fast pace. Instant gratification and omg annoying Gilsellers spamming yell in game non stop. Through YELL!!! Not even private PM!!

I don't see myself playing FFXIV and possibly come right back to 11 for the fact that its easier to process looking at the screen and doing what you want.

14 is just too much visuals that it makes it hard to do stuff. Maybe I feel this way because I'm use to playing 11 on PC and then trying to play 14 on the PS3. I'm not thrilled over 14 as much as I thought I'd be.

So yeah after a month when free subscription runs out, I'm sure FF11 fans will come back after realizing the game is totally different than 11.

Personally I don't like easy games. I like games that actually take time to gain power, earn items, do stuff with people without wasting so much time trying to see and comprehend what's going on through the screen.

Too much visuals, menus, ugggh. I like 11 for the simplicity of the visuals.

Btw I probably wasted several hours trying to understand simple controls. It's not easy playing off PS3 controller. Games too complicated. Can't even select a person easy and can't select a monster without running up close to it. Oh yeah if 2 monsters are in the way?? You have to move over and hope you can select it..

So simplicity in visuals and simplicity in FFXI controls is why I would come back to 11.

And you can actually login and play!! Without hoping you won't get the instant sorry server is full try again later screen.

Lol I made a character on Balmung, couldn't login so I erased it and tried to make a new character and now I get a message saying I can't even create one because the maximim character creation for that world has reached its limit...

Then if you are lucky, just maybe you'll get in a "77 people are in queue waiting to login" and can afk until the server loads you in...

So yeah FFXI FTW...

Seems like you have to be level 30+ in game to use the forums. And you need to be high level to even use the auction house. But still doesn't prevent people from selling Gil lol..

So yeah those are also turn offs in 14. And I didn't even have to read the quest and figure anything out other than glance at where I have to go and who I have to talk to. They put the locations on the map and show you where to Go lol...That's how easy quests are.

Which I think defeats the purpose of playing a real RPG. Too easy sucks.

Point is hardcore gamers who are accustomed to FFXI might come back to this game.

FFXIV to me just looks too eye candy.

It would prove hard to do a merge as i bet if you logged in during JP prime time the numbers would be 2k plus at least they are on my sever

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Originally Posted by Riggs

It would prove hard to do a merge as i bet if you logged in during JP prime time the numbers would be 2k plus at least they are on my sever

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I stay logged in 24/7. I work at a computer. It's never over 1,500 on Cerberus. It's usually a lot less.

It have been like this for a while now. Not just because ff14, Lakshmi barely reaches 800+ players online for almost a year. Half of that number are afks/mules. the only days that have 1k+ is on weekends

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Originally Posted by Tohihroyu

Think they'd shut down low populated servers and merge low populated ones together so XIV has more space?

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Do you think they use the same server hardware for FF11 and FF14? Do you think each FF11 world is on a single server dedicated for only that world?

Original post deserves 100+ likes.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Do you think they use the same server hardware for FF11 and FF14? Do you think each FF11 world is on a single server dedicated for only that world?

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If they were smart, all this crap would be running on hundreds of Virtual machines at some giant data center that provides physical and network security, redundant power company connections, Generators, connections to multiple top tier fiber providers, fire / flood alarms systems and off site redundancy.

Knowing SE though, it's probably on some old Dell tower servers in a basement somewhere.

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Originally Posted by Daemon

Seems like you have to be level 30+ in game to use the forums. And you need to be high level to even use the auction house. But still doesn't prevent people from selling Gil lol..

So yeah those are also turn offs in 14. And I didn't even have to read the quest and figure anything out other than glance at where I have to go and who I have to talk to. They put the locations on the map and show you where to Go lol...That's how easy quests are.

Which I think defeats the purpose of playing a real RPG. Too easy sucks.

Point is hardcore gamers who are accustomed to FFXI might come back to this game.

FFXIV to me just looks too eye candy.

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Stop spreading false information.
To use the forums you simply have to be registered on the lodestone. To use the auction house you only need to finish the 2nd tutorial main story mission where you are told how it functions along with how to use npc vendors.

Even if you can find the npc the real part of the quest is completing their request instead of fruitlessly running around for hours, their requests can involve killing x creatures to searching for well hidden objects.

The game is purposely easy in the beginning to allow leeway for players to get used to the game's systems; from how quests work, to dodging AoEs, to understanding the various mechanics of their jobs and using tools such as medicines to survive. Such quest is the level 15 main story battle in which not using an antidote to cure the poison makes it extremely easy for most players to lose.

End game there is various challenges that are by no means easy but are fun, rewarding and challenging but most of all fair whilst all abiding by the rules established early in the game.

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Originally Posted by FrankReynolds

If they were smart, all this crap would be running on hundreds of Virtual machines at some giant data center that provides physical and network security, redundant power company connections, Generators, connections to multiple top tier fiber providers, fire / flood alarms systems and off site redundancy.

Knowing SE though, it's probably on some old Dell tower servers in a basement somewhere.

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Actually in a dev post over at FFXIV news page the head producer explained that they are indeed using computers as their servers. So yeah you were right on target.

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Originally Posted by nyheen

school time & FFXIV came out around the same time. it will be back to normal soon

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It'd at least recover a bit if fall update:

1. Fix REM properly.

2. Introduce next tier of delve boss that offers 10 times more challenge than current delve boss content.

3. Bring back sense of accomplishment for everything you'd do in this game, and keep players motivated, want to stick around, with their close friends and LS.

If they continue to give players crap boring easy content like skirmish2 that has nothing to do with epicness nor excitment, and REM stays dead, I'm done with this game, and I expect a lot of other players disappointed with current game direction would quit too.

548 people on Cerberus right now... 4:00pm PST

594 online on Valefor at this moment. Been crafting all day because there has not been a single shout for any relevant content the entire day.

1250 on Shiva at 10:30am CST (12:30am JST) so JP Prime Time is just winding down.

To all the idiots out there that say it will be too many people during JP prime. When I started playing in 2004, there were consistently 3k people on sometimes 3500 or more. So the servers can definitely handle the load.

In all honesty, if there isn't a merge announced soon I will probably be done with the game all together. I have taken various breaks over the years but I always came back. This time, if I leave it's the end, because chances are if I ever do decide to come back, the game will have been shut down by then.

Abyssea has killed the game, it has created nothing but unskilled tards who have no idea how to play their jobs properly.

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Abyssea has killed the game, it has created nothing but unskilled tards who have no idea how to play their jobs properly.

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That explains you.

Shiva: 653 as of 2pm CST (8pm GMT) Euro Prime Time.....yeah....

Well we are at 735 around 2pm Est. This is getting rediculous, we couldn't make skirmish without the support of my LS, see shouts for Plasym farming...takes forever. WKR's hours to get a group to go in, its not lack of interest its just lack of people.

950 on Phoenix right now. Not as bad as others, but lower than normal, used to see 1.3~1.4 or so at this time of day.

If Asura merges with another server i hope it doesnt merge with remorans that merged with another server.

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Originally Posted by Spectreman

If Asura merges with another server i hope it doesnt merge with remorans that merged with another server.

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Nice way to treat your fellow players Spectreman, that's the reason this game is dying.

Remora merged into leviathan, which has a much better reputation for being player-friendly then Assura.