Game is a ghost town after server split.

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Originally Posted by BokaSmowl

Yes, I mostly play at off hours. From 11pm-6am. The game still felt alive at all hours even these late hours before the split. Maybe I'll have to swap to a European data-center and see if I can play with the lag.

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I missed this earlier apparently. But yeah, this is part of your problem right here, if not the biggest part of it. That is not prime time. 11pm is on the tail end of it and prime time usually ends a couple hours later, so no wonder things slow down. It's also a month before early access so a lot of people are taking a break. It should pick up as we get closer to Shadowbringers launch and new players join to catch up.

I play on Chaos, with less servers than Aether, around 4 to 6 hours behind the rest of them, and it's not dead when I play. It's a bit hard at certain hours to get into a duty, but it isn't a ghost town. What you're experiencing is, as others said, the pre Expansion period when most of the playerbase takes a break.

See i'm having the opposite problem.

Coeurl used to be empty. So empty that i used to know everybody's name off the top of my head.

And now it's one of the most booming servers on the crystal datacenter. I have wait times now. I understand why they split them.

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Originally Posted by Rosentretter

I play on Chaos, with less servers than Aether, around 4 to 6 hours behind the rest of them, and it's not dead when I play. It's a bit hard at certain hours to get into a duty, but it isn't a ghost town. What you're experiencing is, as others said, the pre Expansion period when most of the playerbase takes a break.

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Louisouix is the only Chaos DC server with many small plots for sale around 470 and is already in above half of it's capacity if not more I did create one character there to get one of the houses and every time am to long in there is queue.

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Originally Posted by AnnaRosa

Louisouix is the only Chaos DC server with many small plots for sale around 470 and is already in above half of it's capacity if not more I did create one character there to get one of the houses and every time am to long in there is queue.

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470 what? No lol there's plenty of plots available but not 470... No one wants to live in The Goblet x)

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Originally Posted by Rosentretter

470 what? No lol there's plenty of plots available but not 470... No one wants to live in The Goblet x)

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The Goblet is a bit of an acquired taste outside of the inner ring around the pool. Personally I didn't mind it but it's not very scenic or vibrant for the most part.

The population decrease isn't as noticeable during prime hours, but if you play mostly at night I could tell a big difference starting the week of the split. Perhaps a majority of the late night gamers are on primal or crystal. Or maybe they started playing other games that week because it's the end of the expansion. Or maybe they log in, see nothing going on like me, and THEN go play other games... There's a threshold in online games where once the population gets low enough, it plummets. This is a great game, and I'd just hate to see it start dying because of bad decisions like fracturing the player base. I already lost a good portion of my friends because of the server split.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

The Goblet is a bit of an acquired taste outside of the inner ring around the pool. Personally I didn't mind it but it's not very scenic or vibrant for the most part.

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Everything is so messy in there, it's an effin labyrinth, and the position of the houses, specially the mansions, makes me think it got really, really rushed.

I'm on goblin and I feel like since the world transfer system, I see more people.

I've only recently moved to Cactuar so I'm not sure how it usually is but it seems populated enough. Que times seem about the same as I remember them being in HW too at this time outside a couple pieces of content (particularly Yojimbo) that could be chalked to not nearly as many people needing it compared to some other content. My lvl roulettes for example have been dinging at normal rates, same for EX, Trial, and Alliance raid.

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Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld

I never said I was unhappy. I'm just not used to having people wandering around so much in the open world.

As for DPS queue times, I would have quit this game a long time ago if that actually bothered me.

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Back in the ARR days the Central Highlands and Northern Thanalan were THE places to level for 30-40 and 40-50 via fates, might be some are reliving those days? :p

Two others from my server have posted in this thread; I concur with both. Though Zodiark is quite busy (there's people everywhere! and not all of them are bots), it's not worth queueing as a DPS on Light past 11pm at night (I would say 10 for trials, but that's only in my experience). I wouldn't think this to be different anywhere else.

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Originally Posted by Vorlonshadow

He just joined to forums today. He probs a wow rep

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I see, must be the one with the exact same topic on reddit a couple of weeks ago. Complaining that server is empty in the middle of the night and early in the morning on working day...

WoW is for children now, FFXIV is the best designed MMORPG on the market. Obvious WoW rep.

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Originally Posted by Averax

See i'm having the opposite problem.

Coeurl used to be empty. So empty that i used to know everybody's name off the top of my head.

And now it's one of the most booming servers on the crystal datacenter. I have wait times now. I understand why they split them.

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Did Coeurl really grow that much? That's good to know, I'm happy y'all are still doing good.

Hsnt been my experience on coeurl on crystal if anything it feels fuller then before

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Originally Posted by BokaSmowl

WoW is for children now, FFXIV is the best designed MMORPG on the market. Obvious WoW rep.

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Hyperbole.

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Originally Posted by BokaSmowl

The population decrease isn't as noticeable during prime hours, but if you play mostly at night I could tell a big difference starting the week of the split. Perhaps a majority of the late night gamers are on primal or crystal. Or maybe they started playing other games that week because it's the end of the expansion. Or maybe they log in, see nothing going on like me, and THEN go play other games... There's a threshold in online games where once the population gets low enough, it plummets. This is a great game, and I'd just hate to see it start dying because of bad decisions like fracturing the player base. I already lost a good portion of my friends because of the server split.

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It's got almost nothing to do with the data center split and much to do with the next expansion being released in a few weeks. Every MMO goes through this at the end of an expansion. People take a break and do other things because they know they'll be reserving the bulk of their free time to play the new expansion when it releases.

Come June 28th, the servers will be packed again.

As for losing friends over the data center change, it sounds like they weren't really friends after all if a data center change made them cut off all contact with you.

I'm constantly getting stuck in Queue's on Leviathan because there's so many dang people

I doubt the server queues are due to the server being full. It's more likely that it can only handle so many simultaneous log-ins. And people using the world transfer system treats changing worlds the same as a log-in. So the reason there are more queues for logging in now than before the server split is because of people moving back and forth checking all the market boards.

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Originally Posted by BokaSmowl

WoW is for children now, FFXIV is the best designed MMORPG on the market. Obvious WoW rep.

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Is that why you said you were ready to quit over housing in another thread?

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Originally Posted by Ceridwenae

Two others from my server have posted in this thread; I concur with both. Though Zodiark is quite busy (there's people everywhere! and not all of them are bots), it's not worth queueing as a DPS on Light past 11pm at night (I would say 10 for trials, but that's only in my experience). I wouldn't think this to be different anywhere else.

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You mean queueing in the most overpopulated role at off peak hours make queues impossibly long? How can this be!?!?!

Crystal dweller here, area is still populated across most servers even off-peak, just more people are hanging out on the infamous Balmung because of it's status as the forbidden garden.

OP claims that there's no one ever on at night, but I also often play around 11pm to 6am (or any time of day, really), and queue times are about the same. Sure there's not like A Lot of people running around, but that's also because it's the middle of the night, and that's how it's always been.

I transferred from Ultros on Primal to Diabolos on Crystal as soon as it was free to do so, and I've noticed absolutely no difference in world and data center population. If anything, playing late at night is better if you want to do certain things, like solo hunts because there's no one going around taking them or telling you not to kill them.

Try again in 1 month when the flood of people will be greater than the flood of Light in the first.

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Originally Posted by Riardon

Try again in 1 month when the flood of people will be greater than the flood of Light in the first.

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Login queues, please look forward to it.

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Originally Posted by SerLuke

Is that why you said you were ready to quit over housing in another thread?

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The housing system is still garbage. Luckily I found somebody selling a FC + house on my server and had enough gil to pay the inflated price. But at least I didn't have to camp the stupid placard anymore.

This happens right before every expansion. People go play other games right before the next expansion. I'm only logging in once or twice a month to keep my house right now. The new expansion will drop and you'll soon wish there was less people when the next Raubahn EX happens lol...

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Originally Posted by Aramina

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Login queues, please look forward to it.

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As long as people actually log off when they're done, the queues will progress...

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Originally Posted by Aramina

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Login queues, please look forward to it.

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I got a login queue earlier and I'm on Diabolos. Shadowbringers launch is going to be fun, as expansion releases usually are. People should expect to not be able to play for most of the first week.

Adamantoise was always just lower pop then the others that's why. try visiting one of the other servers :)

Okay, so, how do I say this? You didn't expect anything. The server split came at the end of an expansion that feels like it lasted an extra two years. People will show up in a month's time, promise.

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Originally Posted by Aramina

Hasn't been my experience either on Midgardsormr.

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Exactly Midgardsormr even during late night periods is still quite busy.

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Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld

I never said I was unhappy. I'm just not used to having people wandering around so much in the open world.

As for DPS queue times, I would have quit this game a long time ago if that actually bothered me.

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Next time you see leafies pat them on the head. See what they do.

I didn't like being forced to pay 18.00 to get back on the DC I started on.

Last I checked today, Adamantoise was locked to character creation. How on Earth can it be dead?

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Originally Posted by Geigerette

I didn't like being forced to pay 18.00 to get back on the DC I started on.

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We did have 2 weeks of free transfers. There was that.

hum huh well yesterday was queued at lowest pick hour not sure what's going on ...

Seems pretty active on Jenova. Always been a lull there at NA late night. Plus we're in pre-expansion lull.

Is Adamantoise a dead server or something? Hyperion is still as populated as ever.

And looking at the other replies in this thread OP...looks like it's just you.

It hasn't been to bad on Aether. I use to be on Gilgamesh but wanted to play with my friend so I transferred to a another server. I see tons and tons of sprouts its funny not use to seeing that. In the early mornings like 700 am EST its pretty quite, but PF always has one or two things going on. Evenings are pretty good but I haven't seen ghost towns.