sprouts, sprouts everywhere

Red blood, green, blood. Doesn't matter for me, bloodletting is bloodletting!

*Grabs weed cutter*

Jokes aside, hope they have a pleasant experience.

Today there was a screenshot on reddit showing every world except 2 being temporarily congested. A screenshot showing that the complete digital edition of the FFXIV game was sold out, which I didn't even know was possible ( https://i.redd.it/yzwnr3fw3pa71.jpg ) and the new record for concurrent players on Steam has now been set at 58k this month whereas the previous record before all this started was 40 or 42k I think.

We DESPERATELY need a new data center I think O.O Also so many sprouts :)

it is probably a wave of players who were waiting for conformation from a major streamer like Asmon. fact is because 14 is getting so big, world of Warcraft is getting smaller. Players are seeing that the king of MMO's is about to be put in the number 2 spot. No one wants to hear that their MMO is dying and when people start talking about a dying game people start jumping off like a sinking ship.

Players don't want to invest into a dying game and don't want to worry about their achievements or collections being destroyed one day. Because wow is showing actual signs of mortality due to the arrogance of their dev team. The players that wow has ignored the 90% they are now taking their chances with 14 because it caters to their needs which wow caters to the top 5% and bottom 5%.

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Originally Posted by Rae88

Today there was a screenshot on reddit showing every world except 2 being temporarily congested. A screenshot showing that the complete digital edition of the FFXIV game was sold out, which I didn't even know was possible ( https://i.redd.it/yzwnr3fw3pa71.jpg ) and the new record for concurrent players on Steam has now been set at 58k this month whereas the previous record before all this started was 40 or 42k I think.

We DESPERATELY need a new data center I think O.O Also so many sprouts :)

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The PHYSICAL collectors edition is sold out (has been sold out very fast), the DIGITAL isn't (and won't be) sold out.

It's been a while since i've seen this many sprouts in the game and i'm loving it. There are more interactions in the city states as well as in the duties themselves. Players asking questions about things they getting confused about or running a duty for the first time.

Personally, i'm having fun again while running older Alliance raids, where it's not simply "burn the boss down and move on" or complain when we get a wipe when we try to push a phase and fail "the DPS check". Or players getting lost in Haukke Manor, because they don't know that they need to go to the cellar after the first boss and get back to the entrance after the 2nd. It's nice to see people learn content again, like we did when the content was still new.

I'm almost done with the things i want to do before Endwalker is released and i'm thinking about trying to get groups together for Minimal iLvl runs, so that they can get to experience more of a duty.

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Originally Posted by Rae88

Today there was a screenshot on reddit showing every world except 2 being temporarily congested. A screenshot showing that the complete digital edition of the FFXIV game was sold out, which I didn't even know was possible ( https://i.redd.it/yzwnr3fw3pa71.jpg ) and the new record for concurrent players on Steam has now been set at 58k this month whereas the previous record before all this started was 40 or 42k I think.

We DESPERATELY need a new data center I think O.O Also so many sprouts :)

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They should definitely look into adding at least one more. But yeah, at a time when the player base should be winding down their activities, it is instead winding up. It's unusual to say the least. I'm getting server queues at 11 am in the morning EST. That's almost unheard up outside of fresh expansion launches. lol

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

They should definitely look into adding at least one more. But yeah, at a time when the player base should be winding down their activities, it is instead winding up. It's unusual to say the least. I'm getting server queues at 11 am in the morning EST. That's almost unheard up outside of fresh expansion launches. lol

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It's crazy right now. I have the day off of work so I decided to log in for a bit. When I log in at 4am on a NA server, there's a queue of twenty five people. I haven't seen queues like this since TOR launched back in 2011.

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Originally Posted by Aldora

It's been a while since i've seen this many sprouts in the game and i'm loving it. There are more interactions in the city states as well as in the duties themselves. Players asking questions about things they getting confused about or running a duty for the first time.

Personally, i'm having fun again while running older Alliance raids, where it's not simply "burn the boss down and move on" or complain when we get a wipe when we try to push a phase and fail "the DPS check". Or players getting lost in Haukke Manor, because they don't know that they need to go to the cellar after the first boss and get back to the entrance after the 2nd. It's nice to see people learn content again, like we did when the content was still new.

I'm almost done with the things i want to do before Endwalker is released and i'm thinking about trying to get groups together for Minimal iLvl runs, so that they can get to experience more of a duty.

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It does feel cool and I am considering returning back to the Mentor program to give some members advice. I think the last time I have seen so many players was during the open beta.

Only downside I've seen a few times is that a friend of mine sometimes can't get gold or silver rank at low level fates because for some reason there are too many players clearing them too quickly.
And they've had players constantly targetting the same quest or hunt log targets as them on purpose, which personally I never experienced myself.

/pat the sprouts!