Why doesn't anyone play on the weekends?

I'm really curious as to why most people prefer to grind away M-F rather than Sat/Sun.

For example this past weekend I've been trying to farm Leviathan. I've only had 1 clear and the rest ended up in disbands due to people rage quitting, not knowing mechanics etc. Unfortunately, I had no options to join other parties due to lack of anyone forming any, and DF was 100x worse.

But I login on Monday, there's a TON of parties! I get home after work with only about 3 hours of play time and well I'm generally tired. I attempt to join some parties, more wipes etc...but before I know it I gotta log out for the night. Meanwhile, Saturday & Sunday afternoon when I'm awake, have a clear head, plenty of time for wipes or whatnot, but the only thing in party finder are myth farm parties and atma grinding parties.



I don't get it.:confused: Wouldn't people rather party on a weekend when they aren't working or have free time? I understand with coil there's lockouts and people are rushing to start asap, but for stuff like T5 or Leviathan...where is everyone on the weekends? Why is this a weekday game?

Yes they would rather party on the weekends, however they are with their real friends.

Most people like to spend time on the weekend with family and friends since as you would have guessed, they have a larger chunk of time available to do so. On the weekday, they probably have 3 or 4 hours after work and before bed to play things on their own so that's when most things happen. My static generally run week nights instead of weekend nights cause we know people would rather spend time with family and what not.

My guess is that they are enjoying their weekend before they have to go back to work on Monday.

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Originally Posted by LoLo

My guess is that they are enjoying their weekend before they have to go back to work on Monday.

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If only...

I spend my weekend tending to my garden, cleaning the house, doing laundry, shopping for groceries. Basically all of the stuff I can't do during the weekday raid nights.

Maybe if you transfer to Tonberry or Masamune you will get more parties on the weekends. Also sargatanas has plenty of weekend parties ^.^

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Originally Posted by grimm1989

Maybe if you transfer to Tonberry or Masamune you will get more parties on the weekends. Also sargatanas has plenty of weekend parties ^.^

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Japanese servers lag me like hell so that would be out of the question. Plus I already bought a house & all so I won't be transferring at this point. :(

Also reading everyone's responses it makes it seem like this game isn't "fun" but it's a chore or a job.
To me playing FF14 is more fun than going to a park with screaming kids and barking dogs so that's why I feel like "enjoying it on the weekend" seems more fun than during the weekday when I'm too tired after work to think straight. (；・∀・)

Aside from all the (very true) points made above about RL stuff, in regard specifically to in-game reasons....

1) By the weekend most people are capped out / locked out of dungeons, as a lot of the softcore elitists have already zerged their way through the game by the weekend.

2) When it comes to PUGs and the DF, (and this kinda ties in above) the pool of people left who are still wanting to do the content has dwindled down to mostly just the very casual 'weekend-only' type people who are generally less experienced, the trolly people, and just generally bad people who have been at it all week and still not cleared it. This leads to be a bit of a weird cess pool of both inexperienced, trolly, or bad players that causes a lot of people in the middle to just avoid random parties on the weekends all together.

EDIT: 3) And if you are *so close* to that next piece of equipment, book, or what have you, it is hard to resist the urge tuesday afternoon to not go crazy and zerg to get it because we are very impatient people ^^

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

Yes they would rather party on the weekends, however they are with their real friends.

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Pretty much this reason. Just having more time in general (for most of us) on weekends allow more social/family/friend time.
I don't really have enough time during Mon-Thur to leave work and go see a movie, or go hang out at a friend's house. I have
a small window that's reserved for eating dinner, maybe doing a load of laundry, and that's it.

Last thing I want to do is play 48 hours Sat/Sun just because I can, lol. To each his own, obviously, but I think most people
just use that time to actually go out and do things cuz there's less of a time restraint.

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Originally Posted by Razor

2) When it comes to PUGs and the DF, (and this kinda ties in above) the pool of people left who are still wanting to do the content has dwindled down to mostly just the very casual 'weekend-only' type people who are generally less experienced, the trolly people, and just generally bad people who have been at it all week and still not cleared it. This leads to be a bit of a weird cess pool of both inexperienced, trolly, or bad players that causes a lot of people in the middle to just avoid random parties on the weekends all together.

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This seems strangely legit because the horrible parties I had on the weekend made me want to ragequit the game lol. Guess instead of wasting time wiping with these people I'll just play other games on the weekend instead ._.

hmm, I dunno.

During the week I have little time to play so I do all the small stuff like beast tribe questing and other side quests. The weekend, however I do all the dungeons and heavy duty stuff because they take longer and I have more time to play.

After all this time I'm still trying to figure out my server tho, its NA but not really sure what time zone its more geared to.

I am more of a weekday player myself, but I do go on late Saturday night once in awhile if I am not completely passed out by that point.

Because there always shit to do and my wife and kids want to spend time with me because I've been avoiding the al week.

which make me fell like http://media.giphy.com/media/14nLNkFk9d84VO/giphy.gif

I know in my early 20s, the weekend was when I always worked, and generally longer shifts. So basically my days to play games for a long period were through out the week. Now I play whenever. cuz I have no control over my life.

So many people on my server raid on Friday nights.... why, people, why!?

What is this thing you call a weekend :P

Family, friends, gfs, any housework/chores that need to be done, etc... weekend is when most ppl has the free time to do all that.

Ok from time to time I get those odds weekends with heavy rain/snow, family out of town, gf with exams and I can sit and play until my eyes ache....but those kind are becoming extremely rare for me...

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Originally Posted by Razor

Aside from all the (very true) points made above about RL stuff, in regard specifically to in-game reasons....

1) By the weekend most people are capped out / locked out of dungeons, as a lot of the softcore elitists have already zerged their way through the game by the weekend.

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So capping early in the week makes you a elitist? What kind of logic is that?

I've wondered this too. Anytime I try and get something done in game on the weekend, its like pulling teeth. This is on a highly populated legacy server.

I think for me it's a matter of week days being more regularly scheduled, and the weekend having more freedom and uncertainty. When scheduling raids with my group, we tend to do week nights and Sunday nights because that's when our schedules line up. None of us know if we're going to have any sort of social engagements on Friday or Saturday nights. And like many have said, the weekend is for catching up on things you can't do during the week - it's when I clean, grocery shop, see friends/family, and catch up on the TV shows I didn't get to watch because I was busy playing FFXIV. If I'm not doing any of those other things, then I'm playing. I've spent entire Saturdays playing FFXIV. But not every Saturday.

Funny, I've been wondering the same thing (low pop, JP server). For our EN community, our Wednesday evenings are slammed; by the weekend it's pretty damn quiet (except Sunday nights). My guess, like mentioned upstream, is that folks have more time on weekends and choose to get out of the house for a while. On weekdays, there isn't as much time or energy to go anywhere so they spend their free time in game.

JP server I think also dies entirely on the weekend. I've never even once encountered a PF as full as work days on weekends, for the same reasons, I usually do stuff I can't during the weekdays like shopping, cooking.. spending time outside the game. If anything, people are hyped when lockouts are released so that's when it's the fullest.