SE it is time

[Draylo]

So start the shout yourself? Maybe people on your server already have linkshells. I personally never ever shout for any content, I do it all with my LS.

[Balloon]

So start the shout yourself? Maybe people on your server already have linkshells. I personally never ever shout for any content, I do it all with my LS.

I already said that I shout, and your ls isn't going to go away if we merge. I play in EU Times mostly, and it's hard to get a ls for that. I have played in NA times and it's not much better.

Things might be fine for you, but for some others it really isn't. And I get why they aren't merging, with a healthy japanese population it is likely to cause issues with how they instance, but I still think something should be done.

[Mitruya]

I play during NA EST daytime which I guess is EU afternoon/primetime ... my EU friends have noted the lack of players during that time frame. (about 400-500 people online give or take) It is really pretty dead on Valefor if you don't already have a group to run with (or have BRD I guess). When I first log on in the morning it's just Japanese shouts, then sporadic English shouts throughout the day, usually selling something. Then again I play on console, my computer is in another room so I can't check the online shout thingy all the time, but other people have commented on it as well.

[Rubicant82]

Maybe if part of the census should have been players online per server per region/times to allow people to see which servers are more popular for what times and move to a server that is more convenient for them.

[Selindrile]

Servers are underpopulated with NA/EU, the problem is that they are appropriately populated on the JP side, so a merge might help us, but it would possibly cause overcrowding issues for the JP... no easy answer the way things are.

The bigger issue as I see it is that JP and NA no longer work together at all (in my experience), I haven't had a JP answer an NA shout and join our group in, probably years. And I can't remember the last time a JP player actually responded to a /tell request of mine to join a group. I am (and everyone I know is) now completely ignored when I send tells to JP shouters as well.

There were communication issues when we strove to do things together, sure, but now, oftentimes, it's a complete shutout.

The only time I get to party with JP players is the friends I have from a long time ago, if they shout, I sometimes build a multicultural party, but these times are few and far between, as it is now though, JP players never accept NA into events, nor do they almost ever join NA-started events.

[Draylo]

Servers are underpopulated with NA/EU, the problem is that they are appropriately populated on the JP side, so a merge might help us, but it would possibly cause overcrowding issues for the JP... no easy answer the way things are.

The bigger issue as I see it is that JP and NA no longer work together at all (in my experience), I haven't had a JP answer an NA shout and join our group in, probably years. And I can't remember the last time a JP player actually responded to a /tell request of mine to join a group. I am (and everyone I know is) now completely ignored when I send tells to JP shouters as well.

There were communication issues when we strove to do things together, sure, but now, oftentimes, it's a complete shutout.

The only time I get to party with JP players is the friends I have from a long time ago, if they shout, I sometimes build a multicultural party, but these times are few and far between, as it is now though, JP players never accept NA into events, nor do they almost ever join NA-started events.

Yeah, its like that on my server too. I sometimes wonder if the JP even exist, I never see them.

[Xysto]

i don't think the NA's play ffxi anymore at all, the entire game is dead