Quote Originally Posted by Miradelle View Post
Why did they lock aether and crystal, when there's less people playing now than in Endwalker?
It's to throttle people from dogpiling one DC. It has nothing to do with the overall player population.


Quote Originally Posted by Miradelle View Post
At least going to primal in M1-4S was 'okay' in terms of group volume, but now I'm looking at like less than 70 groups on primal at prime time, when before there were well over 140.
Before the restrictions that number was zero at all hours of the day.


Quote Originally Posted by Miradelle View Post
Cross DC PF is not happening for the next 5 years, so the next best thing would be to let us at least pool up all the raiders in one server, so you don't have to wait an eternity. It worked great in Endwalker, barely had to wait at all
The game being dead on every DC outside of Aether is not "working great." The entire reason the restrictions were put in place was because swaths of the game were nigh unplayable if you were anywhere else.