Is Goblin dying?

The markets have been really slow, it seems as though there's only a handful of crafter's left.

Im see houses and FC's for sale everyday, people are leaving.

What the hell happened to Goblin?

The Alexander raid has a few goblins tusslin it out.

A few die, few live. Its so/so

Goblin has never been a crowded server, it's a low-mid population server, but it has got some more ppl lately.

I see 10+ Party Finders up at prime time hours lately.
This was NOT the case some months ago before the expansion.
It was not unusual to have only 1 or 2 FATE grinding parties in PF back then.

Market board has always been kinda slow. Besides,right now there are very few reasons to craft in this game (at any server) anyway...

People selling houses exist in all servers and my guess is that most are afraid to lose their houses when the auto-relinquish feature comes with patch 3.1 because they will be away from the game for whatever reason.

Mostly, as aerolol said, Goblin has always been a small town kind of community. It was surprisingly active around when Heavensward dropped, but we've returned to that pre-patch lull, which feels pretty normal to me. If anything, a few raiding groups have moved to more active servers, but the core population is still running around.

Goblin 4 Life! Been here since Beta.

Yes, Goblin is dying. No sense in candycoating it. 1% and omg, two major FC's to our server since forever, server transferred in a mass exodus. 1% has been gone for a while, but you'll still see omg trickling out over the next few days with their pointless "WTS house plot" pfs. I'm not sure why they think anyone is here to buy up the houses. They've already destroyed any semblance of an economy by blowing all their gil into material possessions to take with them when they server transfer.

You can stay here and scream at the top of your lungs "Goblin will be fine!" all you want, but it won't. I know, I've been down that path before. We may look fine right now, but people will keep trickling out at a steady pace until the server becomes barren. Anyone who cares about raid progression, economy, or hunts will leave. There are only about 2 groups on A4 right now, and only about 4 more on A3. When one of my raid members can't make it, I have nobody to choose from to sub for us.

I must admit that I think the same as Arc. I really hope our server can recover from the current mass migration towards high pop servers and would like to help drive people to our good ol' Goblin home as soon as I can afford dedication to such endeavours.

The irony of losing Goblin players because (mostly in my opinion) of a Goblin raid.

I, at least, will remain faithful to Goblin unless the economy goes completely down and the community of crafters srhinks to oblivion. Raiders will come and go, as always. Even if this time, we lost bigger numbers than usual.

The question I will start asking myself is: How can I help my server's community?

Edit: I'd like to add that we might be crying wolf, and that we only feel the void now because of the long patch wait before 3.1. It could've driven raiders that wish for competitivity to move servers, making us feel like the server's going way down than it really is. In that case, it should get lively again with the advent of airship exploration and the new 24man raid.


Long live to Goblins! Have some Illuminati cheese!

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Originally Posted by Bamboofox

Mostly, as aerolol said, Goblin has always been a small town kind of community. It was surprisingly active around when Heavensward dropped, but we've returned to that pre-patch lull, which feels pretty normal to me. If anything, a few raiding groups have moved to more active servers, but the core population is still running around.

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Rio! :D

Goblin was dead as a door nail for a very long time. I was surprised to see as many people as I did before transferring out when HW released. Just to illustrate my point, I recognize two players just in this thread alone. The population just isn't big enough to sustain long play lifespans.

Hopefully it picks up again for you guys, though. I'm sure you'll see a spike of activity with 3.1, although it may not be quite as big as normal due to Fallout 4 releasing the same day...

Some of my FC mates (hey Rio!!) and I were having this very conversation a couple days ago. Goblin has always been pretty low-pop and it's usually pretty quiet during patch lulls, but you can't deny the large number of people who have all transferred at once within a short period of time these past couple weeks. My guess is this will only continue though I don't know to what degree.

In my case, it would take my whole FC wanting to leave before it became a real option. I don't plan to leave as we're pretty well established here since launch with our FC house, airships, and friends throughout the server. That said, I can see why many have transferred and can't really blame them, even though it hurts our server in the long run.

I'd love to somehow bring this to the dev's attention, as I wonder if it's even on their radar? Goblin can't be the only server that is steadily leaking players to invariably the same places (i.e. Gilgamesh). My only hope is that SE can think of some way of remedying this problem...though it'll probably just be band-aid server merges in the very distant future when the damage has already been done. :(

If a dev is reading this, please let me know if this is something you're aware of!

Relevant:
http://i.imgur.com/pxWHDXL.png

This is the most lively Sunday I've seen in a while, lol.