Sucks that the pouplation is thining!

[aray0002]

Well I do agree there is nothing really to do right now. But crystal tower isn't the only thing being put in for 2.1. Also there is a reason to do it, so that my other jobs can have gear better than dark light ( since i usually just have coil drops for my main and my myth is spent on my main.) Extreme primals will be put in, although im not sure if they will drop anything of use, HM dungeons. etc. There will be more to do in 2.1 other than CT.

What you really mean is.. they will include more areas that introduce even harder dodge mechanics that make Titan HM look silly and 80% of people who paid for Titan HM win will not be able to complete. Only the ELITE core gamers will will enjoy 2.1 CT and even they will be like WTF ? Coil was way harder.. and by that they will be correct.

[whycantiusebetaforumname]

With the average player logging in maybe 3 hours a day > not the normal crowd.
and the average hard core player logging in maybe 8 hours a day. > the standard.

People got to the End Game or lets say level 50 within 2 weeks of the game release.

They been farming CM , AK , WP and BC for weeks and weeks now. and the only thing SE has to offer us.. in the upcoming update 2.1 is a pre-req dungeon called CT Crystal Tower.

The gear dropped there will not be better than Coil and so what's the point ?
Only those that have not done Coil will even want to do this... and possible there still will be a weekly lock out for your character.

SE suffers from No End Game and Restrictive End Game content. It's all but lights out.

lol. Or like myself and many others are waiting for pvp.

[KraggyKor]

I am starting to see the population thin out and it sure sucks. I thought for sure the servers would be packed like FFXI for years. Guess I was wrong!

I assume you never played the initial release of FFXI in '02. You probably picked it up after its release in NA ('04) or EU ('05), in which case it was already 2 years old and had one full expansion (NA, Zilart) or two (EU, CoP), so what you expected in FFXIV was based on a totally wrong view of what FFXI was at this stage of its life and many, mnay months afterwards.

[LiadansWhisper]

I'm still getting "world is full" and need to wait to login.

Yup. I get a queue every day.

[Fensfield]

I thought the execs had said they'd need 32% retention to consider the game a success, and they were surprised to find they were lingering significantly higher than that.

MMO's just don't keep their initial user count, and FFXIV wasn't designed to only be successful if it killed WoW like so many others. Best of all, being a wholly owned project of S-E it can weather dry spells anyway; no panicky investors to appease at the slightest fluctuation.

But anyway defensiveness aside, I have to say I'm not seeing a population die-back either. Just a return to sanity from the launch days of horrifyingly overcrowded zones.

[Aerostein]

I've already been noticing. Legacy worlds are mostly fine, but more than a few people from lower pop worlds are still transferring to larger ones. (Myself included.) I wouldn't be surprised if some are merged in 2.1 or some time 'soon' eventually.

Some worlds literally have under 50 players at lvl 50, at a single time out of all jobs. While it's not uncommon to see Balmung with like 100 players in a single job at 50 through player search. Not the best indication, but it's there.

[Laifon]

Most people alrdy capped everything gear-wise on a certain job and are waiting for pvp.
I can imagine people only logging on for the myth cap/coil and then play other things

[Gilthas]

And now depending on the time of the day its hard to get a fate group.

Of course its hard to get a FATE group. At the speed you level in FFXIV getting to 50 is really fast.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

They just need a Jeuno in game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CEfMytkUg

FFXI Music > FFXIV by a mile or so.

Bro you've brought back too many memories. I'm crying now.
p.s. Revanants Tol feels like the new Jeuno and it sucks -.-

[Genesiser]

What you really mean is.. they will include more areas that introduce even harder dodge mechanics that make Titan HM look silly and 80% of people who paid for Titan HM win will not be able to complete. Only the ELITE core gamers will will enjoy 2.1 CT and even they will be like WTF ? Coil was way harder.. and by that they will be correct.

Of course they will think coil was harder. When they went into coil they had IL 70 gear max fighting mobs for IL 90 gear. Now they will be in IL 90 gear fighting IL 80 enemies. They would have to add some crazy mechanics to the difficulty match coil for the mere fact that people will outgear the content vs being way undergeared.