Dev response to Server Merge please.

[InpendingDeath]

It amazes me how quick people forget that FFXI was never a shout/pickup group game at all before Abyssea.

You simply joined linkshells and did your endgame, I never saw a shout for content outside of help with artifact quests ever on FFXI before abyssea.

Well i've only played for about 3-4 months so I can't speak for the past.

Read then post, orders of operation.

[Pixela]

Read then post, orders of operation.

Well this is your problem. Almost everyone that is capable has already done this content, you're late to the party and asking people to do stuff that very few need. All you're going to get now is the people that were unable to do it before, which means they will be undergeared or simply not very skilled/experienced.

I'm not sure what you're shouting for, if it's bcnms for papers then many are capped or solo those now. If it's high tier delve, people won't join unless you're highly geared and known to be a good leader. Shout for stuff like WKR and you'll usually get a big group there.

Server merge won't fix the problem you're having, what would fix it is an updated party finder system, but chances of that are slim.
Yeah everyone will have a different opinion, and I do not know current populations on other servers. Just hard to call a game a MMORPG with such low numbers considering any other has 2k+ at any given time shouldn't this one have atleast 1,000 at any given time?

FFXI is one of the very few games that you can tell how many are online, I can't think of any other mmo that lets you know how many are online at once. Thinking all these games have thousands of players on at any time is kinda silly.