not many people on the forums?

[minipope]

Everyone says this game is really popular but to me it seems like the traffic on the forums are very slow and almost dead?

[ZhycranaDranix]

Because we're all playing the game

[myahele]

Its mostly due to the limitations that will turn people away early on

The amount you can post on threads daily is limited to your character level. Lets say you're lv 30, you can post less than 10 post per day. Additionally, you can only have 1000 character limit, which can be bypassed but not many know about it.

Compared to Reddite, for example

[NinjaTaru72]

Not really dead, or even remotely close.. Doesn't help this is the na forums and its 1am, smack dab in the middle of America . also what's forum population have to do with the game? Lol. All you'll find here is a few randoms like me(because I'm laying in bed browsing forums befor I pass out) and a bunch of trolls and the angry kids. The rest of them spend more time on the game.

[Colorful]

I'd be surprised if more than 20% of the game's population know the forum exists (or even really care about them).

[MiniTofu]

We are mostly on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/

[SDaemon]

We are mostly on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/

Even that is just a portion of the overall playerbase.

[Vydos]

Not to mention that things like forums aren't as popular as they used to be a few years back. I've seen a huge decline of forum usage over the past few years. It's still being used, but not as frequently visited by users. Other social media and other ways of communicating has taken a bigger spotlight.

I'm honestly surprised with the amount of people using this forum in this day and age.

[Sove92]

Also, German and French have their own section, that cuts activity from the English section.

[Averax]

People rarely visit forums, or know about them.

The forum community in most games consist of about a handful of the players.

Not to mention the popularity of alternate forums over the official ones like Reddit.