where is 4 milion player ?

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I'd imagine a huge chunk of those extra players are Chinese and Korean as they just launched in those regions recently.

In 3.1 Bismarck and Ravana will be added to duty finder, probably with echo. It won't be easy beating it in duty finder though as everyone just treats it as a learning group. At the very least you'll be able to practice it more, and then set up a Party Finder group to beat it.

Also If your really serious about endgame, I'd get on a more popular server like Gilgamesh or Behemoth, you'll have a much bigger Party Finder pool.

[Tuathaa]

there's like 64 servers, so 5mil players/64 servers=78k/server - most of which don't play any longer,

There aren't 5 mil players there are 5 mil accounts. The actual # of active accounts is half that maybe probably even less.
Doesn't in know way mean the game is dying it would be considered successful with a 500k player base but the advertised #'s are abit inflated

[Alberel]

Why are people so bothered about how many people are registered and how many are actually Active?

All that matters for the game to survive is people registering the game and paying their fee.

It's like a gym membership, you got a 6 month membership. You free to get in and out when ever you want. The main thing is that they have already invested.

In an MMO player activity levels are actually incredibly important. In a gym you don't really need anyone else there to do anything and (unless you have an ego) you don't need anyone else there to show off to or share your experiences with. It's been observed in many MMOs, however, that if the game feels under-populated more people leave and there's an exponential impact from that. If lots of people are subscribed but not actively playing, or if you're stuck on an under-populated server, you will see people losing interest in the game as it is the social aspect that keeps most people interested even if they primarily play solo.

OP, as others have said you may be playing on a low-pop server or simply playing outside of that server's prime time. If either of those are the case a server transfer is your only real option. On Phoenix I can get a PUG group for Ravana Ex together in about 30 mins...