Is Goblin dying?

[BushWookie]

I'd like to arrange a photo shoot of Goblins crafter's at Costa in the next few days. Would anybody here be interested in something like that?

[Alavel]

Well been here since the beginning and been running <OG> Oblivion Gate the whole time. Goblin will strive again once the patches come out and then dwindle back down again. Give players a reason to stay. OG we help all members and friends of OG as much as we can. When we first joined the server most of the top tier FC's were mostly Raiding FC's. Those very same fc's left to join larger populated servers and selling their houses. I find it funny cause chances are those players will have a hard time getting their own homes and fc for awhile. Stick it out to patches guys and things will be lively again I promise, and lastly the marketboard is gonna be slow due to ppl still lvling crafting and gathering classes to get the full benefits mainly for the new patch. SO YEA OG WILL ALWAYS remain GOBLIN!! XD

[NightsZenith]

I'd like to arrange a photo shoot of Goblins crafter's at Costa in the next few days. Would anybody here be interested in something like that?

Sure, just message me in game - I'm Nights Zenith - I have Blacksmith, Armoror and Carpenter geared up ^_^

[Leep]

Difficult to find a lady friend on Goblin, but according to xivsoul.com, if it's accurate, the Goblin population is among the highest.

[Sho86]

As far as I understand xivsoul was a project and not an on-going site, and already almost a year old. I was trying to research all this before I made a move here due to housing, although I seemed to have caught the tail end of people leaving as even just one week later prices are largely different and not recovering (fluctuating a bit, but declining overall). After moving I researched further, and another site I used was this:

http://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/wsurvey...m?world=Goblin
(the data can take up to 3 minutes to load, so if looks blank in the slots just wait)

This was another project that went up to Aug 8th '15, so most likely still isn't very accurate as it seem some of those who left were a bit more recent. Even with all that, this site only counted Lv21+, and goblin was one of the lower pops sitting just under 11k, while most sat around 13-14k. Overall Aether data center servers average lower, with Primal data center sitting around 16k average; JP servers around 9k average, but higher retention per character/player, so the difference isn't exactly noticed (I was on Atomos for a year and it felt as busy as Brynhildr, 8k vs 16k).

Examples prices for me moving here:

________________Moved - Now
Fat Cat__________ 575k - 300k
Apkallu Egg(HQ)___2k - 80gil
Astral Oil (HQ)____130k - 50k
Marron Glace(HQ)_35k - 7k
Aldgoat Horn(HQ)_3.5k - 1.5k


I could provide plenty more examples as I brought a wide variety to not bank on just a few items, in case that single item crashed (although they are all going down). I've been visiting other servers (avoiding Gilga and Legacy) on Aether since the move and market speed is indeed rather low for goblin. Even going down to prisms (I checked way more of course lol), one of the fastest moving items in any server, Goblin drags compared to most on Aether, with the best seemingly on Jenova, which was very fast (again, was not checking Gilga or Legacy). I've yet to decide if I'm going to stay or consider another move, but this is the jist of the research I did when/while I moved.

[CelestePinke]

Goblin isn't dead and seriously 2 FC's leaving who cares. This just another lull. Moonfire Faire showed great community spirit. There are still plenty of great people on the server that are always willing to help people. Goblin is home and always will be.

[Malicewolf]

Well, I haven't been here that long (uh, only joined in August) and I joined Goblin BECAUSE it was a lower pop server.
1. Because my friends all placed here maybe a month before me
2. I like joining lower pop servers (to help increase the pop and for that more small town feel)
3. I hate overly elitist players (which I've still run into plenty here on goblin, but I can only imagine servers like Gilgamesh).

Though, I will say, because of the lack of pop, it also means that there aren't as many doing the high level stuff.... which means more than likely, those who are doing it are picky because they don't have that much to choose from and don't want to do it multiple times. Kinda works backwards though as you push those wanting to learn away and thus, keeping your numbers low. Players with no patience are the biggest detriments to the server imo. Half my FC won't even play certain dungeons because of players that will simply bulldoze through without explaining anything. One of my FC's healers said her party literally left her behind on Castrum Meridianum (and left half the mobs alive while running through) and she had to just wait for them to finish it without her because she couldn't solo through the mobs. Obviously, not a good experience. But I've also met some very nice players as well who will explain boss fights in detail as well (and I try to do the same when I repeat stuff).

[Cidolfas86]

Though, I will say, because of the lack of pop, it also means that there aren't as many doing the high level stuff.... which means more than likely, those who are doing it are picky because they don't have that much to choose from and don't want to do it multiple times. Kinda works backwards though as you push those wanting to learn away and thus, keeping your numbers low. Players with no patience are the biggest detriments to the server imo.

Its the chicken and the egg man. Its just like companies try to hire employs. They want someone with years of experience, but don't want to "pay" to train new players (employees). Its making endgame puggable content suffer as a result. I don't know how many times where I've joined a PUG for an EX primal or something else and people just give up after 1-2 tries without trying to teach people new content.

Other servers like Gilgamesh, Balmung, and Excalibur have a healthy PUG scene but ours here on Goblin isn't too comparable at all.

[raventhor0]

Hey just wanted to give a shout out to go link players. Coming back to the game myself soon and considering transferring to goblin. Things are not looking well for me on balmung and also recently managed to get some irl buddies to finally pick up a game and they already created characters. Also seems like it might be enjoyable to play on a smaller server for a while despite the lack of end game raiding and also sounds like it may be enjoyable to help build a server completely back up. Just waiting on a paycheck where I have a few extra bucks so that I can put in a transfer to goblin, though I already have a character on goblin atm until I get the funds for the transfer. Raven Inari is his name, eventually getting deleted though so I can keep that name on my main character.

[Malicewolf]

Well, feel free to add me if you see me online. I'm always glad to help people out ^^