Quote Originally Posted by Noir View Post
Don't forget that with each patch, more people will come back, start with ffxiv. Those servers with few players, will definitely get more people. Looks like a long time, but 6-10 months goes fast. Keeping your char/retainers's names, friends, server name, for the majority have no price..
the problem is that the smaller servers are just continuing to drop in population. it's to the point on karnak that it is a chore just to get enough people together to do even a moogle party. the 6-10 months go fast when you are having fun, but having nothing to do daily besides work towards luminary tools is not my idea of fun.

i know of a few people that will be coming back, but i also know alot of the people that got digital copies that has their free trial expiring and those people will be leaving. keeping 50-60 english speaking players during even peak times that are ranked from rank 1-50 is not enough a population to keep the people willing to pay for the game here. the majority of us had already started discussing how long we were going to give them to merge before we left and moved to other games as groups.

if the smaller servers hadn't gotten a server merge there would be no use to do it in 6-10 months because the ps3 players would have had completely empty servers to join when all the original players had already left.