Extreme increase in new players

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05-17-2011, 12:47 AM
Rjain

Extreme increase in new players

I don't know if this is happening to other servers but there has been a seemingly giant spike of new players on Besaid. They're everywhere. I see more new players than I see anyone else now. The starter camps are starting to look more like when the game was released at times. A lot of these players said they came here from XI, and they're not "into RP" so that's not their reason for coming here.

Has anyone else been getting a spike of newcomers on their servers?
05-17-2011, 12:53 AM
Starlord

Im On Besaid and I noticed the same thing too, "maybe the players here told them about the Impending Doom".. What have they done! >.< LOL =)
05-17-2011, 12:56 AM
Nuru

I'm about to check out and see what its like on Rabanastre. Good news though, always happy to see new players. :)
05-17-2011, 12:58 AM
Zenaku

In selbina there a lot of players playing in LL and saw a few low level players also i knew there was low when they got level 5 physical
05-17-2011, 01:00 AM
Naqaj

Some websites reporting on the Doom events.
Besaid often recommended on forums as one of the more active servers.
XIV available for $15 or less in bargain bins.

I guess there are several factors coming together. Doesn't really matter why, as long as there are more players :)
05-17-2011, 01:02 AM
Abriael

I've noticed the same on mysidia too (actually i've been seeing more new players for a few weeks now, but even more lately).
05-17-2011, 01:03 AM
Starlord

Quote:

Originally Posted by Naqaj

Some websites reporting on the Doom events.
Besaid often recommended on forums as one of the more active servers.
XIV available for $15 or less in bargain bins.

I guess there are several factors coming together. Doesn't really matter why, as long as there are more players :)

More Players= Game becoming what its suppose to be (still a long way to go) however this is a start of something great =)
05-17-2011, 01:04 AM
Keftenk

Cornelia is always swamped with JP players, the NA and EU community still seems quite low.
Have been noticing quite a few non-ls people running around with the collectors edition items.
05-17-2011, 01:09 AM
KaiKatzchen

As Abriael said, yeah I have seen a increase in new players on our server too. :)
05-17-2011, 01:14 AM
TheVedis

add in the fact people are already getting tired of rift
and LOL DCU and PSN being down

they are going to games like this that wont cost them as much for the moment, especialy with whats been going on they wanna see what will happen and whats going on
05-17-2011, 01:15 AM
viion

probably a lot of mule boosting.

I was passing blackbrush other day helping a friend and it had like 3 people there, Drybone about 5, Today this morning i logged in at Drybone and it was empty.

I dont see it increasing much, i see a lot of people not going to limsa/grid more just stick it out in Uldah.

But I am assuming everyones just going xp/levelling crazy expecting SE to mess it up come june or they want a 50 for the dungeons. And then they'll be sad when they complete them in 1 day.

You can tell who is new and who is returning by searching them on lodestone. Old people have 7 digit id's all new accounts now have 8 digits.
05-17-2011, 01:38 AM
Khazar

Probably because when someone ask recommending a server here almost everyone tells them to start in besaid D:
05-17-2011, 01:45 AM
Zenaku

Quote:

Originally Posted by Khazar

Probably because when someone ask recommending a server here almost everyone tells them to start in besaid D:

i know right and i join besaid and it was like no one i rejoin selbina and there lot's of players in the other two city.
05-17-2011, 01:48 AM
Dargoth_Draconia

Who plays on Besaid? ewww =p
05-17-2011, 01:49 AM
sketch

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Who plays on Besaid? ewww =p

lol.......
05-17-2011, 01:53 AM
Peregrine

The starting camps have picked up in activity on Wutai as well. Nanawa has never been more packed, and is starting to look like it is being used as envisioned as a lowbie hub dungeon.

It's probably just a concentration thing as people learn where the best places to level and be are, the best places start getting packed as stray lowbies stop grinding on dodos and random parts of the world, and get with the program.

Then again, maybe the population is coming back a bit.
05-17-2011, 02:26 AM
LlenCoram

I'm seeing a lot of new players in Lindblum too. It's always nice seeing a new face.
05-17-2011, 02:30 AM
Physic

Quote:

Originally Posted by viion

probably a lot of mule boosting.

I was passing blackbrush other day helping a friend and it had like 3 people there, Drybone about 5, Today this morning i logged in at Drybone and it was empty.

I dont see it increasing much, i see a lot of people not going to limsa/grid more just stick it out in Uldah.

But I am assuming everyones just going xp/levelling crazy expecting SE to mess it up come june or they want a 50 for the dungeons. And then they'll be sad when they complete them in 1 day.

You can tell who is new and who is returning by searching them on lodestone. Old people have 7 digit id's all new accounts now have 8 digits.

haha im pretty sure that in june it wont be as easy to solo, and our charachters are going to be overall weaker, thus making it more likely that you will get less exp. But i have no proof, just seems like what will happen with the vague info we got on changes.
05-17-2011, 03:05 AM
Xquiel

I see a little more players in trabia too! ^^
05-17-2011, 03:08 AM
Akira_Tenshi

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheVedis

add in the fact people are already getting tired of rift
and LOL DCU and PSN being down

they are going to games like this that wont cost them as much for the moment, especialy with whats been going on they wanna see what will happen and whats going on

PSN is back online just in case you didn't know.
05-17-2011, 03:14 AM
Rau

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nuru

I'm about to check out and see what its like on Rabanastre. Good news though, always happy to see new players. :)

NURUUUU COMO ESTASS?!
05-17-2011, 03:16 AM
Paragons

Its all around; lots people coming back to check things out. SoE was down forever, Rift is beginning to peak out, wows lost somewhere around 700k I think the word was; and News of FFXIV and the new team has been getting around. Still much needs to get fixed (as they are working on) but its much easier to get started out in XIV now, just the way you skilled up before was retarded. One of the biggest arguments other then fatigue was people pointed out don't worry about it; just lvl horizontally...Which many people didn't want to do. That is making u play a certain way. Cap could pretty much be reached in a day for a job and depending on how much you play could get real slow. So then people did try to lvl horizontally, only to find out that using another job skill wouldn't help you lvl the current job at all; so why use them lol. Then you needed gear for every job and space ran out way to fast... another big hole in the mixing class thing. (all fixed now for the most part of coarse) But then gear? where do you get gear...another huge curve with a crafting system that has a real bad material vs lvl orientation...I mean on and on all old arguments; but still much frustration has been a lil addressed...Mouse doesn't creep across the screen; menus are a lil more tolerable...Anyway im sure many of the people that stuck around don't notice to much as the people coming back do. Ive been hearing tons of good comments. (June and on seems to be looking good...hell there even adding jump o.0.)