Quote Originally Posted by Caradog View Post
Problem is that a sizeable portion of those 800 people are either JP, of which a large portion utterly refuse to interact with anyone else. And a large chunk is taken up by inactive mules, do a search in jeuno and the adoulin cities, I wouldn't be surprised if 300-400 of that 800 can be accounted for there. I doubt much is going to fix the dwindling population issues, a flat out merge I agree probably isn't the best idea but perhaps offering regional servers could help to bring those playing in similar time zones together.
FFXI has always been this way, nothing you stated is new.

The problem is no new content + a portion of players that think they can do everything via shouts. Something that is totally alien to FFXI.