Population low?

[DenariusJay]

Ultros is hit and miss, when I play at night it totally dead, but during the evening its packed. Sometimes I see people everywhere and its hard to even fate grind cause there too many people, but when night time falls its just totally dead, no middle ground. Would be nice to have a middle ground server but oh well, I wanted to join Balmung for the RP but it was locked out. Shucks

[Vallug]

Diabolos is pretty busy as well.

[Zaero]

Some servers have higher pop than others. It's a matter of luck of the draw.

That said, just because your server's pop is low is not a omg gaem is dying (nor are server merges).

But, the game's a year old, and at this point, people log in for new stuff, burn out, then take a break until new stuff releases. It's the circle of game.

[Odd]

Guys, I noticed the population across most servers aren't like what it used to be a year and two ago. What gives? Which server has the highest population in the USA? Thanks! .

First of all, two years ago not a soul was playing this game. Second, one year ago today no one was either, but we had played beta and were eagerly anticipating early access in 3 days. If you are referring to launch, of course the servers aren't as busy. That's normal for any MMO. But I'm glad for that. Do you remember how frustrating it was trying to log in back then?

All that aside, I still get a log in queue every once in a while on Balmung, especially after patches. My queue times are still instant as WHM, and there's still people everywhere. As many as day one of the server? No. But that's a good thing. The population definitely isn't low by any means.

[Velox]

The game is actually well over one year old. The one year anniversary is to commemorate the rebuilding and restructuring of the game. FFXIV originally launched in 2010, so technically the game is 4 years old. I'm assuming the OP was comparing server population now to what it was then during the 1.0 storyline.

Also for info about world populations, there's http://xivsoul.com/
Currently Exodus has the largest NA population, while Jenova is the lowest.

[Odd]

Also for info about world populations, there's http://xivsoul.com/
Currently Exodus has the largest NA population, while Jenova is the lowest.

I don't trust that site. I've made alts on the supposedly #1 server a few times (the top server is always changing according to that site), and every time the zones have less people than Balmung does.

[Velox]

I don't trust that site. I've made alts on the supposedly #1 server a few times (the top server is always changing according to that site), and every time the zones have less people than Balmung does.

The site doesn't track players logged in though, only total population of characters made on it. And yes, the most populated server will change due to SE's lockout system (where they restrict which servers you can make new characters on to help balance the game population). From my experience (used to have a character on Balmung), Balmung just contains a more active playerbase than most other worlds. My guess is that its due to the unusually high role-playing community there. While non-RPers on other worlds tend to get less active overtime as they wait for new content to blitz (rinse and repeaters), RPers tend to stay active and create their own content, thus giving the world a more lively community.

[SevValen]

I will say my sever has not that big of a population but I think I like it that way

[PureEclipse]

I have seen tons of leafs next to peoples names on Leviathan for the past several weeks since the recruit friend thing started, I haven't noticed a drop in population at all, yeah, people come and go, but that's mmo's for you. 20 people left, 40 came in, 15 will stay, 10 of the old 20 will return at some point.... etc etc.