Quote Originally Posted by OmnysValefor View Post
People bandwagoning to Asura rather than trying to put any effort into forming parties only makes the situation worse.

Yeah underpopulation sucks but overcrowding does too. At times, getting into Ambuscade can take a few minutes on my server with <300 people.

I say what I've said before: If SE just won't do merges, they should do a free server transfer campaign. They should take some of the burden of the skewed population distribution. I don't want to go anywhere leaving all of my friends behind, but it's annoying to look at shouts on FFXIAH and see, I'm not kidding, shouts from as much as two days ago.
When people do try to start parties, no one joins them for 2 reasons: 1, there is no one to join, or 2, the few people that ARE on the server are in a linkshell that plays with the same people everyday. <--- These are the people that don't understand why merges are necessary, because they've been playing the game this whole time and already have a list of players to do things with. It's not the same for new and returning players. Usually the only way to get into a setting like that is to already be friends with someone in the LS. The days of posting recruitment posts and shouts are sadly long gone, so linkshells on small servers typically don't acquire new recruits because they don't need to. They're in their own little world, they won't even play the game if they have to play with "pugs." It's silly.

I like pugging, I like meeting people, it's how I got into my current linkshell and how I've met most of the good friends I've already made in my brief time on Asura.

And seriously, let's not act like "overcrowding" has been a thing in FFXI since 10 years ago... The few minutes wait to get into Ambuscade to EASILY get these AMAZING BIS items from joke content absolutely does not count.