I am excited to see what happens when subs kick in.

[Jynxii]

I wonder how the expected population drop will actually affect the dynamics of the game. Less people mean the zergs on FATEs would be smaller and thus take longer than they do now. When I play in off peak and there are only 2-3 actual FATE groups, each FATE will take ~5 mins, as opposed to 30 seconds. When you factor in the time it takes for FATEs to spawn, which is pretty random, dungeons may edge in as equal or better experience... for anyone that isn't DPS at least, lol. It may even get people to use Leves for their battle classes too.

Long story short, get your battle classes up before the FATE zerg potentially disappears if you want everything max level asap. I wonder if this is what Yoshi and the team meant when they said it would balance out and correct itself.

[Shneibel]

I wonder how the expected population drop will actually affect the dynamics of the game. Less people mean the zergs on FATEs would be smaller and thus take longer than they do now. When I play in off peak and there are only 2-3 actual FATE groups, each FATE will take ~5 mins, as opposed to 30 seconds. When you factor in the time it takes for FATEs to spawn, which is pretty random, dungeons may edge in as equal or better experience... for anyone that isn't DPS at least, lol. It may even get people to use Leves for their battle classes too.

Long story short, get your battle classes up before the FATE zerg potentially disappears if you want everything max level asap.

yes and no, lets take northen thanalan as an exampler, the area have 4 fate that give a lot of exp: 2 gather fate, Chimera and DD chain. Usually with the massive Zergs festival, ppl just ruin the exp gain potential from the 2 gather fate by turn the item in and finish it within the first 2 min and not turn in the last 2 min and lost like near 100k exp.

It is true that it take longer with chimera fate with 1 pt, but with a PT I can lvl faster by do the 2 gather fate and DD

[Aleksandr]

People has not patience. I will stay here to see the pvp, big raids, housing, lag fixes, new lvl cap and new jobs.

Goodbye to the people that leaves. I supose a lot of them will come back after 2.1 anyway.

The you will be back strategy doesn't work to well. People get busy with other games, they get busy with friends, school, jobs, relationships, having children, volunteering, a new job, a second job, or even just a good book.

People like saying people will be back because they enjoy the game. (I do too) but a lot of people who leave especially this early, won't be.

[MusouMugen]

People leave, I can go to an instance without reserving it for ages. That's my expectation.

[complexxL9]

It is obvious what will happen. When SE sees people not subbing, they will be forced to fix those flat asses, so the game will become playable.

[Leknaat]

I find combat a bit frustrating (like clearly being out of AOEs but still being hit by them) and not being able to target/see fate bosses/party members and other things so I mostly stick to crafting and gathering in the hopes that they'll fix most of it by 2.1/2.2.

Fortunately crafting and gathering is fun. I make it something of a game to try to reach my next gil benchmark. Like I'm currently 20k shy of 1.5 mil - next goal 2 million etc. lol

[Jynxii]

yes and no, lets take northen thanalan as an exampler, the area have 4 fate that give a lot of exp: 2 gather fate, Chimera and DD chain. Usually with the massive Zergs festival, ppl just ruin the exp gain potential from the 2 gather fate by turn the item in and finish it within the first 2 min and not turn in the last 2 min and lost like near 100k exp.

While I don't disagree with you, your example in regards to the gather FATEs is more about playstyle than the FATEs themselves, essentially having an XP party FATe'ing (or vice versa). If players still do the gather events simply by gathering and killing enough to finish it, the experience gains definitely won't be that high.

I also think FATEs like Gorgimera and Svanna require a certain number of players in the zone to spawn. Even with smaller numbers it will be a great change; did Gorgimera during off peak with about 3 or so groups, and it was going well until everyone ignored the adds, they stacked up and ended up mobbing healers one by one. Zerg mentality ignores certain mechanics of FATEs, and once the population is normalized people might start doing them properly, and become better players for it.

[Meleena]

I cant wait for all the pricks to go away when the subs start, its bad for a game to be popular after all.
I will continue subbing since the game is good and it will become better once all the @*!&^#&! are gone

[Vod]

I just hope the kiddies who think theyre entitled to being carried in bad gear / standing in shit, leave. If I did not have to deal with them, people would find I am less rude.

[Sixteen]

This game is lucky in a sense that there isn't really any MMOs coming out soon and Wow is in a twilight stage of its expansion during which people generally don't like to return. Still this game has too many issues that will easily make a good portion of the population bail. Tera, GW2, TSW and Rift all had much smoother launches than this and they still fell apart within months (Well Rift lasted a little longer). People will not take the "It's new" excuse for the lack of content and the existing problems, the MMO market is a very narrow field where no game other than Wow has been able to hold a stable population for years and SE sure as hell isn't looking like they are going to do better.