Housing Census!

[Jojoya]

Coeurl update Jun-18-2019

S/M/L
Lavender Beds: 3 / 0 / 0
Mist: 0 / 0 / 0
Goblet: 82 / 0 / 0
Shirogane: 0 / 0 / 0

If Crystal is so full then why are all the preferred NA servers on Crystal?

Before the NA data center change happened, what were the preferred NA servers?

Brynhildr
Coeurl
Diabolos
Goblin
Malboro
Zalera

Those names look familiar? SE bundled up every preferred world in NA and stuck them all in Crystal along with Balmung and Mateus. Is it really any wonder that the only remaining preferred worlds in NA happen to be worlds that were preferred in the first place?

Did I ever state that Crystal was full? No, I said Crystal was fine. If people were abandoning Crystal in droves like some of you have been trying to imply, then all 6 of the worlds that were preferred before the data center change should still be preferred. Instead only currently 3 are. The population here has grown whether you guys want to believe it or not, just as the population has grown on the worlds in Aether and Primal.

Ask yourselves why you're so obsessed with the population on Crystal when you don't play here. What does it matter to you when it's got nothing to do with your queue times or party finder listings? Maybe stick to worrying about what's going on in your own data centers instead of taking pot shots at another one.

If we are as low pop as you're implying, at least we'll be getting to play the game next week while you're stuck in neverending queues. Enjoy!

[shaiel]

Coeurl update Jun-18-2019

S/M/L
Lavender Beds: 3 / 0 / 0
Mist: 0 / 0 / 0
Goblet: 82 / 0 / 0
Shirogane: 0 / 0 / 0


Before the NA data center change happened, what were the preferred NA servers?

Brynhildr
Coeurl
Diabolos
Goblin
Malboro
Zalera

Those names look familiar? SE bundled up every preferred world in NA and stuck them all in Crystal along with Balmung and Mateus. Is it really any wonder that the only remaining preferred worlds in NA happen to be worlds that were preferred in the first place?

Did I ever state that Crystal was full? No, I said Crystal was fine. If people were abandoning Crystal in droves like some of you have been trying to imply, then all 6 of the worlds that were preferred before the data center change should still be preferred. Instead only currently 3 are. The population here has grown whether you guys want to believe it or not, just as the population has grown on the worlds in Aether and Primal.

Ask yourselves why you're so obsessed with the population on Crystal when you don't play here. What does it matter to you when it's got nothing to do with your queue times or party finder listings? Maybe stick to worrying about what's going on in your own data centers instead of taking pot shots at another one.

If we are as low pop as you're implying, at least we'll be getting to play the game next week while you're stuck in neverending queues. Enjoy!

Also from you in this thread yesterday -

And yet what data center came up with the largest population in the latest Lucky census?

Crystal.

If all people care about is raiding then yes they're going to consider Crystal dead. It's very lively in other aspects of the game, though. The game world doesn't revolve around raiding nor does the data center revolve around Balmung.

Again, Crystal is doing just fine.

Other preferred worlds that were preferred before and after the datacenter split: Midgardsormr, Siren, Lamia, Hyperion, Famfrit, etc on both Primal and Aether. There's the census you're referring to in your comment yesterday about Crystal being high pop, and then there's what square enix themselves have announced today for preferred, standard and congested servers. You yourself said Crystal datacenter has highest population when in aether you can't even make a character on any server at peak times and it has 5 congested worlds, not 1. No wonder there's no housing available in aether.

And going back to counting houses in this thread - Famfrit today had 5 small in lav beds, 2 in Mist, a couple in Goblet. No mediums. The plots from the big demo day are getting snatched.

[Jojoya]

Also from you in this thread yesterday -

Other preferred worlds that were preferred before and after the datacenter split: Midgardsormr, Siren, Lamia, Hyperion, Famfrit, etc on both Primal and Aether. There's the census you're referring to in your comment yesterday about Crystal being high pop, and then there's what square enix themselves have announced today for preferred, standard and congested servers. You yourself said Crystal datacenter has highest population when in aether you can't even make a character on any server at peak times and it has 5 congested worlds, not 1. No wonder there's no housing available in aether.

Those worlds you list definitely were standard worlds before split, see

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...dcf46648031b74
(changes as of Jan 2019, which was the last change to world status for NA servers prior to the data center re-organization), and

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...bf5eb4f6a9f9c2
(changes in Sept 2018, which had been change previous to January's).

All the preferred worlds in NA at the time the data center reorganization occurred went to Crystal as I stated. It was something that many people commented on in the weeks between the announcement of which worlds would be on which data center and the change occurring because it felt strange that all the preferred worlds were being placed together in the same data center instead of spread out across them all.

Were some of those worlds you listed made preferred in May when they made the post-split adjustments? Yes. SE was still trying to achieve some balance in world populations at that point and it appeared they were trying to do it by data center instead of across the entire region. Every data center had 1 congested world, 2 or 3 preferred worlds and 4 or 5 standard worlds designated until the new change this week.

That Crystal is the only data center that still has preferred worlds left does not mean that Crystal is losing players. It just means that Aether and Primal have picked up more of the new and returning players than Crystal did. Populations here are still very healthy, which is what I've been trying to point out.

Crystal is fine.