Is it worth coming back?

[nakomaru]

Several groups I know that have been running coil for months have quit, and far fewer people are doing FATEs any more if you still have characters/classes to level. Still, there are enough people playing to be able to do things if you play during the server's prime time.

The DF wait time picture was taken during Aegis prime time, so population was not the problem here. The point of the photo is to illustrate a major flaw in the in the design of the game, which is that far more tanks are required to run instances than exist. Waiting 110 minutes to join a dungeon for a subscription game, even as a DPS, and even during population lulls, is horrible.

[Odd]

Nope.

I have never once tried using the DF for CT. I use the PF, and have never waited more than 10 minutes as DPS. This is a big reason why DF queues are increasing. So many people are entering with pre-made parties now.

[Imapooonu]

Nope.

Who waits over an hour and a half without re-q'ing?

You were obviously stuck in a loop....smh

[Langureion]

Just wait for 2.2, like others mention, population is decreasing simply because people ran out of things to do besides grinding Coil and EX primals.

[Mhaeric]

yeah population start dicreasing a bit -.-;
look @ revenant toll that used to be crowded

I call shenanigans. The only time I've ever seen Revenant's Toll that empty is immediately following a maintenance. Even off peak times it's got far more people than that. Heck, even the starting cities have more people than that.

[Shyluv]

Yeah. What Mhaeric said. Think even the not so popular FATE zones have more than that, even if they are just gatherers.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I find this image to be an inaccurate representation. I'm on Excalibur and this is no way a representation of what the population is like.
People in Revenant Toll started hanging out behind where the screenshot is taken instead of at the crystal and since PF there's more people hanging around in towns / market wards instead.

The population has decreased, as does with any game, but not THAT much.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

If anything the game has been getting consistently worse, so I'd say no.

[Imapooonu]

If anything the game has been getting consistently worse, so I'd say no.

How so? Is it all the patches, updates, etcetera?

[Mihael_Longclaw]

How so? Is it all the patches, updates, etcetera?

Seeing how quality has decreased, and there's more pressure on quantity.

1) Most of the new gear has just been re-skins of things we already have. Lazy/10
2) The writing in 2.1 is even worse than the vanilla game
3) 2.1 destoying what little grasp the economy had
4) Bribing people to log on every day to do monotnous fetch-quests for mounts/ minions, and dyes
5) Most of the new enemies being re-skins of enemies we've already seen
6) PvP just being a broken and uninspired mess
7) Treasure Maps ruining demand for crafters, and gatherers good
8) CT Gear making i70 crafted gear even more useless

There's a bunch more, but following this trend of rehash, reuse, recycle, reskin old content- giving bland and uninspired content with long grinds to artifically induce game times (as well as fetch quests).
Making old content useless.

I'm sure there's some I've missed, but I do not have high hopes for the future of this game.

New Classes/Jobs? Sounds cool, until we find out it's the same ol' rotations on the same ol' enemies.