Is this game slowly dying?

[NyarukoW]

Given that no one lives forever and all good things must come to end, everyone and everything alive today by default is slowly dying. If the expectations is for the game to go belly up tomorrow, then yes it is slowly dying, probably not fast enough for the OPs taste. If the expectations are for the game to last til 2050, then it might be dead long before then, so then it is probably dying too fast?

[WizardShotTheFood]

On a long enough timescale, every game is dying.

[Amiantos]

Big reason why I think people are saying this is because they're on a lower population server that was made during the launch to try and accommodate everyone. So during the times close to the end of a patch cycle server count is lower than norm. Where as my server still has que times during peak times. Consolidation of the lower count servers would cause people to panic and jump ship saying the game really was dieing due to that.

[ZReport]

FFXIV: ARR isn't going anywhere. If it hasn't died out as fast as The Elder Scrolls Online or Wildstar, you shouldn't believe that it's going to die ot go F2P anytime soon, if ever.

[Beyondgrave]

Wildstar is such a joke. Can't believe I left this game for that. Now I'm so behind.

[Failia]

A game only dies if people leave and do not return. Currently some folks are dipping their feet into a few other games that are available on the market (IE Destiny) and taking a short break (like myself taking a 2-week break and going through Mass Effect again). Also, school is back in session so part of the population is no longer available during parts of the day.

[hdepaula]

I dont know about you guys but my world is full of ppl, maybe youre not hangging around the right places in Eorzea, you wanna know if your world is dying or not, thats easy, when some one shouts "Rank S at ?X?Y" go there and see how many ppl will show up to kill the fiend. After "the hunt" more and more players are actually playing instead of standing there like statues lol after patch 2.4 its gonna be crazy! but like someone said earlier, new worlds were made and if youre in one of those new worlds then Eorzea might look empty to you, when I started playin my world was really empty (I would usually see at most 5 ppl in Central Thanalan) now its one of the richest world and the most crowded (I'm from Cactuar) and I also feel like the PF is going faster than usual, and they said that more 1 billion people plays this so, also maybe the time youre playing is not really the rush hour so ppl might be working or sleeping.

[Tiggy]

Is this game still worth investing time in?
Will the population inevitably reduce to something like aion?
I really do not want to invest in it if it is just going to die later..

All MMO's eventually die. The question is how fast.

[TouchandFeel]

All MMO's eventually die.

Valar MMOrghulis.

Sorry, it was just too perfect of a pun setup.

[Gucci_Charms]

I won't say the game is dead, but on my server there is definitely less activity after Tuesday to Thursday since most people sign on to mainly to do their SCOB T6-9 clears for the week, ST Loot, and cap out their soldiery. It's pretty quiet by Friday to Monday.

I can assume the game will be heavily populated once 2.4 hits for awhile with the population dwindling as people clear the content and cap out Ninja level.