Loosing players after update?

[nugglets]

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Jump to conclusions much? 75% of the population is gone? People not hanging out in Mor Dhona has more to do with there being nothing to do there than anything else. North Shroud is still packed on Excalibur during peak hours. So are the main cities and housing areas. People are also out hunting and nexus grinding instead of just sitting around in towns. In one of the Nexus LS's I'm in, there were 94 people online at 5pm EST today. We have a group of 8 FULL Hunting LS's, I'm in the 8th one and it has 65 online right now.

One of the big things that's been happening are server transfers. Seeing lots of people who transferred multiple times, looking for the right fit.

Basically, what I'm saying is, you can't judge population based on people idling in Rev or a couple of your LS's. You can't even base it on your particular server. You can guess as much as you'd like, but there really isn't any way to know for sure and if you want to believe something you will.

[Shougun]

And I don't think they're saying f2p quality is bad

F2P are bad. :P

I like to have access to everything, and I like that access to be part of the game - both of these F2P are inherently against (thus P2P is a better deal for myself). Plus F2P Korean MMOs scare me, the grind is unreal lol.

[Velthice]

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I'd love to see the source of your not made up statistics. Also what's anecdotal evidence? Never heard of it!

From what I've seen, which is also anecdotal evidence, excalibur is buzzing. This is the busiest I've ever seen it inbetween major content patches.

Edit:

I've said it months ago and I'll continue to say it until I see otherwise. I don't see XIV lasting another year if they keep this up. Shouldn't have to give proof on that, seeing as its everywhere in mmos today. They all try copying the WoW model and end up dying off within 1-2 years, sometimes less. Remember Wildstar? What's Wildstar? Exactly.

Wildstar is circling the drain because it's a buggy almost unplayable mess and actively hostile towards casual players while still sucker punching the people who are dedicated enough to get past the awful attunement process to raid. Yes, Wildstar is a bad game that advertised itself as reliving the glory days of wow, but that's not why it's doing so bad. To claim otherwise is to either be incredibly ignorant or disingenuous.

[Dwill]

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Talk about a huge amount of baseless assumptions based on nothing else than anecdotal evidences.

[EdwinLi]

It not really losing players but some are taking a break until 2.4 is released in October.

Patch 2.35 and 2.38 were not major patches after all and only provided minor things.

After all playing too much can ruin a person's experience with a game.

[Ashkendor]

Rev Toll is definitely less people now on Sargatanas anyway. I guess people are just bored. There is not much new in 2.38. Most people got their sand already from Hunt. Ramuh, no one still bother even with i110 rings. There only Relic Weapon left, and that won't hold people for that long since the grind is so huge and boring that force you to do more old content over and over again.

Or you don't see people idle in Revenant's Toll because we're in the DF farming Nexus?

Or out hunting? Or at our FC/personal houses?

[Dyvid]

I liked the ST drops. However everything else just seems more shinnies and vanity.

Is this turning into a f2p game that we are paying for?

You are right about vanity stuff and all but what do you suggest?

[SummonerSenah]

Also I forgot to mention but during peak hours I get long loading times porting to Mor Dhona, Fallgourd Float, and Limsa Lominsa. If you're basing this on how few people are in Mor Dhona, check some of the other main hubs. The Ixali area is usually pretty crowded as well.

[DenariusJay]

What? I've seen more people than ever. Hunts are insanely busy and queue times have been lower.

Must be the servers then, Ultros has been a ghost town for the past week or so, and nothing has changed in this patch. Traditionally, in past MMO's a patch would bump up activity atleast for a few weeks, not so in this game.

[Ruenis]

I stop playing since the start of this new patch.










But that's because I have to work offshore.