Face it, this game is in maintenance mode now, i.e. managed decline

[Stormpeaks]

SE: We'll continue XIV for 10 more years, we're working on the next expansion and graphics update!
People with zero brain cells: ded gaem lul

That's a very stupid take, any company making a new expansion doesnt make the game alive and well.

The game being on a constant high upward trend is literally a cope moment, it's stable at best or on a very slow decline, as I said nothing catastrophic at all but let's not pretend that the game is on an extreme upward trend

[Stormpeaks]

I do not "pretend that the game is on an extreme upward trend". I never said that, it's just you twisting my words. I do believe that the game is stable though and will be for a very long time. They wouldn't be investing in new servers and a graphics overhaul if it were on a decline. Business facts.

The new servers were announced way back when the spike from WoW was in effect to try and help with the huge queues, Materia is a new DC that is in life support, Dynamis is very meh, only Seraph is alive, the rest is pretty much deserted except for housing purposes, most people go to Aether or Crystal to do content as the wait times are hours long.

As for the new EU DC, if you think it will be a success, you are in for a rude awakening, Sagittarius which is my world is already very much dead, with multiple mediums not even taken in PERSONAL wards, just like Raiden on Light, only Phantom and Alpha are nicely populated, if you think an entire new DC of 8 worlds will work, I dont know what to tell you

[Stormpeaks]

That doesn't change the fact that they decided to invest in new servers. The real problem is the new datacenters and the lack of cross-DC duty finder. They should have put the new servers in existing DCs, imo. And Materia should have existed 10 years ago! It's obvious that not many people are willing to move to new servers because of friends/FC/houses/economy/etc.

They invested in new servers because the queues were hours long, and going back on those words is admitting that the game is already not as popular as it was back then so they wont do that, as for Materia I agree, they should be able to cross DC with NA or JP, one of the two, else no one will move

[Shistar]

As for the new EU DC, if you think it will be a success, you are in for a rude awakening, Sagittarius which is my world is already very much dead, with multiple mediums not even taken in PERSONAL wards, just like Raiden on Light, only Phantom and Alpha are nicely populated, if you think an entire new DC of 8 worlds will work, I dont know what to tell you

Phantom player here. The ward my personal is in took over a year to fill, and people move out-even out of mediums!-more often than I would expect. The ward my FC is in only recently got two new neighbours since Dawntrail dropped. Phantom is also a ghost town lol
The one thing we have better than NA is that Phantom & Sagittarius are part of Chaos DC, thus we benefit from faster queues being fed by mostly Ragnarok, Omega, Louisoix, etc. Same thing for the new servers in Light, with the added bonus that they get the active PF too. I truly don't know why I didn't move to Raiden instead of Phantom lol at least we got the cooler names!

[CStrife912]

I do not "pretend that the game is on an extreme upward trend". I never said that, it's just you twisting my words. I do believe that the game is stable though and will be for a very long time. They wouldn't be investing in new servers and a graphics overhaul if it were on a decline. Business facts.

While not something reliable....mmo population sites literally show it on an upward trend.... I mean man if it wasn't the case why do we need new data centers and more servers to accommodate... why do we keep getting more and more people registering to play which even these active player numbers on these sites don't include free trial players. The game is very healthy at the moment, I think we have to wait to 7.0/7.1 to really see where we are heading.

The new servers were announced way back when the spike from WoW was in effect to try and help with the huge queues, Materia is a new DC that is in life support, Dynamis is very meh, only Seraph is alive, the rest is pretty much deserted except for housing purposes, most people go to Aether or Crystal to do content as the wait times are hours long.

As for the new EU DC, if you think it will be a success, you are in for a rude awakening, Sagittarius which is my world is already very much dead, with multiple mediums not even taken in PERSONAL wards, just like Raiden on Light, only Phantom and Alpha are nicely populated, if you think an entire new DC of 8 worlds will work, I dont know what to tell you

I am on Odin and I have never had a simple log in without a small wait...even if its 100 people in the queue it still means the world is at capacity, using new worlds/DCs like materia doesn't bode well with your argument because a lot of those players were fighting between higher ping or leaving friends behind so that is a more complicated matter.

[Stormpeaks]

While not something reliable....mmo population sites literally show it on an upward trend.... I mean man if it wasn't the case why do we need new data centers and more servers to accommodate... why do we keep getting more and more people registering to play which even these active player numbers on these sites don't include free trial players. The game is very healthy at the moment, I think we have to wait to 7.0/7.1 to really see where we are heading.

Dynamis is literally dead except for Seraph which is the only sort of alive world, the others are used either for housing purpose or for very tiny communities, and people have to go cross DC to Aether or Crystal to do anything