Population low?

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Originally Posted by Brightwizard

Guys, I noticed the population across most servers aren't like what it used to be a year and two ago. What gives? Which server has the highest population in the USA? Thanks! :).

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First of all, two years ago not a soul was playing this game. Second, one year ago today no one was either, but we had played beta and were eagerly anticipating early access in 3 days. If you are referring to launch, of course the servers aren't as busy. That's normal for any MMO. But I'm glad for that. Do you remember how frustrating it was trying to log in back then?

All that aside, I still get a log in queue every once in a while on Balmung, especially after patches. My queue times are still instant as WHM, and there's still people everywhere. As many as day one of the server? No. But that's a good thing. The population definitely isn't low by any means.

Balmung has so many players it takes me 5 trys to get in :P

The game is actually well over one year old. The one year anniversary is to commemorate the rebuilding and restructuring of the game. FFXIV originally launched in 2010, so technically the game is 4 years old. I'm assuming the OP was comparing server population now to what it was then during the 1.0 storyline.

Also for info about world populations, there's http://xivsoul.com/
Currently Exodus has the largest NA population, while Jenova is the lowest.

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Originally Posted by Velox

Also for info about world populations, there's http://xivsoul.com/
Currently Exodus has the largest NA population, while Jenova is the lowest.

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I don't trust that site. I've made alts on the supposedly #1 server a few times (the top server is always changing according to that site), and every time the zones have less people than Balmung does.

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Originally Posted by Odd

I don't trust that site. I've made alts on the supposedly #1 server a few times (the top server is always changing according to that site), and every time the zones have less people than Balmung does.

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The site doesn't track players logged in though, only total population of characters made on it. And yes, the most populated server will change due to SE's lockout system (where they restrict which servers you can make new characters on to help balance the game population). From my experience (used to have a character on Balmung), Balmung just contains a more active playerbase than most other worlds. My guess is that its due to the unusually high role-playing community there. While non-RPers on other worlds tend to get less active overtime as they wait for new content to blitz (rinse and repeaters), RPers tend to stay active and create their own content, thus giving the world a more lively community.

I will say my sever has not that big of a population but I think I like it that way

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Originally Posted by Kaela

As someone who is also on the same server as OP, I know what he means about it seeming kinda dead. Goblin is a low populated server. We get the most people on during the evenings and not many people on after about 1am. Which personally I am fine with. There is always something for me to do.

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ERM....... Someone doesn't know what prim time and non prim times are.......

I have seen tons of leafs next to peoples names on Leviathan for the past several weeks since the recruit friend thing started, I haven't noticed a drop in population at all, yeah, people come and go, but that's mmo's for you. 20 people left, 40 came in, 15 will stay, 10 of the old 20 will return at some point.... etc etc.

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Originally Posted by Everjams

Not really sure I know Sargantanas at times I get a que to to world full on occasion like yesterday at 8 am cst

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that was server issues, the world wasn't full, it was happening to everyone that tried to log on about that time to our server. It even affected people who were already logged in, kicking them off.