Petition to keep non-instanced dungeons.

[Sephrick]

Sample sizes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination

Okay.

With the server merge they're reducing to 10 servers each said to have an ideal population of about 2,000. To play with round numbers we'll assume that means SE know there currently is 20,000 active players subscribing to XIV.

So essentially 200 of 20,000 is 1%.

Plus there's no data for the other side of the opinion. Either you vote in support of the OP or not at all. There's no scientific way for a player to poll other players. The only hard data we have is SE's own Player's Poll which restricted votes to one per active account and was done in a way where those who don't frequent the forums were made aware of the vote.

3 to 1, people were in support of instances.

And we see how well everything turned out.

Eloquent.

You act as though SE has made all their intended changes and there was some mass exodus as a result.

Populations are down because the game isn't anywhere near what people wanted. The players polls were intended to shape the direction of 2.0. They're designing their servers and engine to include things like instances and a cross-server dungeon finder.

You act like instances built to run on a crippled server system and underutilized engine are somehow evidence of things to come. They're just things to keep us dedicated fans busy while staying true to the 2.0 vision.

We're currently still between two versions of the game. And the population levels are reflective of the fact that most gamers won't tolerate broken design. They want to see fulfilled promises -- which won't happen till 2.0 is live.