Server Population

[Dragoy]

I'm a recently returned player on the Fenrir server and I noticed that during NA prime time the population is between 200-300... JP prime time is not much better at around 600-900.

Have yet to see it go that low at times other than right before/after a maintenance.

A little before this post, it was at 545 (on Fenrir), which is probably the lowest I have ever seen while not around a maintenance. Earlier today it was at around the more usual 1400, around my afternoon (some 8-9 hours ago from this point in time). Perhaps people were just logging on for them points, perhaps not. (Hopefully the log-in campaigns will come to an end some time soon, or at least the collector's items taken down from the 2000 points category...)

A couple of big reasons come to mind: people doing end-gamey content are bored; many feel there is little point in doing the latest and “greatest” events, especially when the equipment seem to be out the window with 1-3 version updates. That, and there doesn't seem to be any real goal to aim for (yeah, the game in that sense was always about getting the gear to get the better gear, but that used to take some time (and no, it's not that I'm saying time-sinks are good, but yeah, I digress!)).

Their incredible stance regarding the Mythic weapon quest-line and such do not make them look good, either.


The other reason is likely that many are testing the waters of Eorzea. Probably... maybe?

From these two, the first reason is the more heavy one, I think. I personally haven't even bought Adoulin of the Seekers kind yet; I'm still having fun with my friends away from there, so obviously I'm not speaking of personal experiences.
However, I know quite a few people who always did the latest things and built the greatest things. When those people have their Content IDs inactive, it's serious, and the way the future content moves towards should probably be thought of quite carefully indeed (not that it isn't important other times). Those people I know, find X|V boring as well, so that's not where they are at.


Could also be them schools starting up around some parts of the world again, too. Or was that a month ago? Meh...

Something like that, anyblue. ^^;


Oh, and balcome weck! I might suggest waiting for a time to see if perhaps server merges are going to happen sometime soon, which probably will happen if them numbers stay so low. Then again, if it's the name only you want to do it for, it's probably best to do that before, than later. Not that there isn't a possibility of you losing it yet again due to the possible merge. You probably get what I'm trying to say.

Always a horrible thing to lose one's original name. :\