Lodestone census march 2017

[Moomba33]

Always interesting seeing stats like this.
Well done to Chocobo server that's an amazing clear rate.

It's too bad there's no way to see how many people have attempted Creator Savage. I'm curious if the higher JP clear rates are due to more teams trying in general or due to the teams being more successful.

[Dement]

Typically when I get home around 5PM EST there's a queue of about 30 people give or take during the week.

This is pretty consistent. I log in at my lunch time at 2 PM EST and there's rarely a queue and I usually log in again at 11 PM EST and there's usually a queue of about 10 people. Never really have to wait long for it to pass. Except when patches go live... when new patches go live then all bets are off on Balmung.

[Zojha]

It's too bad there's no way to see how many people have attempted Creator Savage. I'm curious if the higher JP clear rates are due to more teams trying in general or due to the teams being more successful.

Well, we "do" have a number on how often which tier was cleared:
http://gamerescape.com/2017/01/13/eorzean-census-2016/
(Specific slide: http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...016slide35.jpg )

Alas, the sample is neither taken in the same time frame, nor does it differentiate between JP, NA and EU. But it shows that participation is quite a bit higher than clears.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Not surprising. The raiding community has been dying off since 3.0.

What? You may want to look again. These are the highest totals we've ever seen for raiding. In fact, reddit approximated a 49% increase in clears since the last census. That is a staggering improvement. Not to mention, active player totals actually went up nearly 100k. If anything, raiding is more popular now than it's ever been.

[Onyxia]

My server is on 53th place, lol. Now I understand why I rarely saw static recruitements in PF (and they were always in Deutsch) and why culinarian 3-4-star crafts don't popular on market board.

[Kyuuen]

I knew we were the biggest server, but damn... I wasn't expecting that much of a difference.

[KiloByte]

People prolly don't raid in NA because most of us, even with good internet, get a terrible ping. I've got more than enough hardware and bandwidth but the sheer distance the DC is from where I live leaves me with about a 500-800 ping. Raiding is much more difficult with that kind of ping, if I had a low ping it'd be much easier and much more attractive.

[Zojha]

[...] but the sheer distance the DC is from where I live leaves me with about a 500-800 ping.

o.O

I'm playing on Balmung from germany and only have 130-150... wtf?

[thegreatonemal]

NA/EU servers tend to relies on statics to do anything which means you have to find 8 people who play the roles and set aside a few hours a week to meet with em which creates the hardest part of raiding getting into the raid. JP servers are able to pug for the most part and unlike us who have like 4 different youtubers with 4 different starts and people who been in statics make up there own custom strats. so when all of that tries to pug it becomes a nightmare because no one is on the same page.

[bswpayton]

Judging from what I've seen from what the jp servers post compared to us is the have more of a community approach. Where as people use their raid clears here as a symbol of elitism. And I'm pretty sure everyone of there party finders don't have no bonus on them