Can we haz a merge

[Xerius]

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.

[Mefuki]

1764 on Fenrir right now. Seems fine to me.

[Spectreman]

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

[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.

[detlef]

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.

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.

[FrankReynolds]

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.

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.

[svengalis]

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

[Minikom]

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

[Daemon]

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.

[Daemon]

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...