FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Wasselin]

Hi, person from Dynamis here, and I assure you that low player count does in fact make a huge difference when you're trying to, you know, actually play content that demands other people to do it with. You wanna know just how dead Maduin is in particular?

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I'm well aware, and do feel sorry for Dynamis players, but that has nothing to do with overall player count and more to do with the introduction of the servers + the datacenter travel feature setting those servers up to fail. They never got a good start even when there were more players and then players stopped even trying to queue there and just datacenter travel instead. It doesn't require millions of players for low queue times, because even back in ARR and Heavensward you could find people to play with.