Are all the servers dead

[Wristflick]

I am a returning player and I was wondering if there are any populated servers at prime time US their is less then 600 players is it like that with all servers I am on Phoenix and this server should be buried underground. What is the population on your servers?

[Tidis]

I believe the biggest servers right now are Bahamut and Asura.

[bungiefanNA]

Asura seems to be ti for the English-speaking community, in large part to the REDDIT site and linkshell pointing people there, and the low cost of server transfers at times like this. FFXI has lost a lot of players to attrition from FFXIV ARR, other MMOs, real life as people grow up and get more time obligations the dropping of German and French language support,, and the announcement of the end of development last month (no new content after November's patch), as well as various bans recently (more salvage exploits and finally cracking down on speed and position hacking). They don't want to do server merges until Rhapsodies is released, in case it causes a bunch of people to return.

Bahamut appears to be the Japanese equivalent to Asura. Ragnarok was decent if you could play in East Coast USA primetime, but I'm in Alaska and that just wasn't working for me to get stuff done. Asura is the only server I've seen 1000 or more people on, and the REDDIT LS hangs out at the max of 64 people online during much of the day. Ragnarok was usually about 700-800.

[kaerin]

As someone who was on bahamut and moved to asura.... Asura has tons of people. You should move to asura

[nekroturkey]

Asura has tons of people at 99. If you do a /sea all 1-98 though, the number is usually between 100-200, even when there are 900-1000 people on.

[Seillan]

Asura has tons of people at 99. If you do a /sea all 1-98 though, the number is usually between 100-200, even when there are 900-1000 people on.

I wouldn't really expect that issue to be any better on any other server -- heck, it's probably worse. Aside from the handful of us returning/new players that trickle in, I'd wager that the large majority of players have about every job they want at 99 already, and have probably had them there for awhile even. Just the nature of the beast in this genre.

[Teleste]

I can vouch that Asura is very active. We are home to the official Reddit linkshell with over 400 active players. Find more information here: http://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLinkshell

[Valonquar]

Maybe they will server merge again sometime?

[Castanica]

Once they stop making content I think a huge chunk of players are going to have to stop paying the sub, as much as you love something you can't let a company basically rip you off. Paying a sub for nothing is awful, they will be making like 99% profit which is disgraceful.

[bungiefanNA]

Maybe they will server merge again sometime?

They said in the Freshly Picked after the Rhapsodies announcement that they aren't doing server merges until after Rhapsodies finishes releeasing, in case the servers get a big boost in population from returning players sending it off into the sunset.