The Great FFXIV Exodus of 2024

[Yoyoyako]

Returning player here, queue is instantaneous with my white mage, server usually is congested by ~20 players.
It doesn't mean there's no such exodus, but the game is still very healthy.

I have no "reason" to come back, I was bored and thought "hey, that was a fun game".
I'm newbie too so that may be a factor in my perception of the community's health

[CNitsah]

Returning player here, queue is instantaneous with my white mage, server usually is congested by ~20 players.
It doesn't mean there's no such exodus, but the game is still very healthy.

I have no "reason" to come back, I was bored and thought "hey, that was a fun game".
I'm newbie too so that may be a factor in my perception of the community's health

There is always a "congestion queue", since the implement of the new connection method after the catastrophic Endwalker lauch. You can connect at 4 in the morning and still get a "congestion queue". So that tells nothing.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Returning player here, queue is instantaneous with my white mage, server usually is congested by ~20 players.
It doesn't mean there's no such exodus, but the game is still very healthy.

That is a anti-DDOS measure to slowly funnel logged in players into the server. You have to be on absolute dead dead times to potentially not run into one of those.