227 people....

[Yellow]

Weeew Kashuan!

But seriously I can't wait for server merging.. actually I can't wait for language servers ~

[Bahn]

Hi Altera. ^^

I think it really depends on what time you check. Saronia seems to be right in the middle in terms of server population... of course, it is most active during the 9pm - 1am Japan time window.

I suppose the English speaking population has dropped off significantly, which was compounded by the breakup of some of the larger English-speaking Linkshells over the past couple of months.

It will be very interesting to see what the server population is like tonight, after the billing system starts.

Good to see other people from Saronia in here.

I had the impression that the numbers on our server were lower. I do think it's mainly because we have a bigger JP than US population; I party with JP players on occasion myself (for small things like Behests and whatnot). I actually think the numbers get active at 6 PM their time (~11 PM Hawaiian Standard Time for me), but I can only physically stay up until around 8 PM their time to see the peak population. The JP peak population seems to be bigger than the Western peak population for sure.

I also wonder how much of a population hit they're going to take versus the West. I remember an informal poll we did looked at losing maybe half our population when billing hits in the West. I wonder if the JP are more tolerant of the issues this game has compared to us.

[Mikita]

Good to see other people from Saronia in here.

I had the impression that the numbers on our server were lower. I do think it's mainly because we have a bigger JP than US population; I party with JP players on occasion myself (for small things like Behests and whatnot). I actually think the numbers get active at 6 PM their time (~11 PM Hawaiian Standard Time for me), but I can only physically stay up until around 8 PM their time to see the peak population. The JP peak population seems to be bigger than the Western peak population for sure.

I also wonder how much of a population hit they're going to take versus the West. I remember an informal poll we did looked at losing maybe half our population when billing hits in the West. I wonder if the JP are more tolerant of the issues this game has compared to us.

Hi there. ^^

It does seem to me that the English-speaking population on Saronia has dropped off significantly over the past couple of months.

There is still a very strong Japanese player population, and you're right -- they do start to log in around 6pm Japan time, but it doesn't really hit its peak until about 10pm.

I am a bit anxious about logging in tonight.
Most of my closest friends will be continuing, but I'm sure there are other Japanese players who will not.

In general I think Japanese players are a bit more tolerant of FFXIV because it is a domestic game that does cater to Japanese tastes. And even if they are dissatisfied, many Japanese people tend to remain quietly so, rather than posting it openly (unless you have a very anonymous system like 2-chan).

I think that player demographics, play styles, and expectations are also very different.

I guess we'll see the real impact soon enough.

[Miyaka_Vigiles]

I know the devs and Yoshi-p talked about server merging, but did they say anything about the threshold?

I mean what the low number they wanna see before starting the merge?

I see alot of servers around 200-300 wich is pretty low, even if u combine 3 server that will still give u less than 1K players wich is considered moderate pop in a regular MMO.

[Zumi]

FFXI usually has around 2k-3k people per server during peak times. Probably would be nice to have somewhere around there.

Which is a lot nicer then FFXIV with getting groups. In FFXI you can seek and get a group within mins or show up at a exp camp in abyssea and someone will probably invite you.

[Gramul]

wow there is 227 people logged onto bodum server right now. I cant see paying to play a game with this little people that play it. What a joke

Well that's why they're fixing it then isn't it?


...isn't it?

[Ilethius]

213 on Wutai as of this moment!

[Coombah]

313 on saronia at this time

[darkstarpoet1]

156 on karnak

[Alise]

You use the search function.

486 folks on selbina a couple hours ago, which felt low compared to the usual population actually. I can't imagine how empty the other servers feel with lower population.

My Search function give result of max 200/200 How do u know population higher than that?