Phoenix server activity

[Delever]

Hey guys.. I ve been wonddering has phoenix lost people lately? I m noticing the activity is kindda low compared to odin or ragnarok for example andd phoenix was always an active server!
I could be wrong its cause I mainly notice this during the morning but I have a few days to see a small queue as well like I used to.

[Tagihi]

nah woulden't say so it depends what you doing?
morning is low on many servers, afternoon when people home from school and work its usely very crowd

[Ragnvard]

We have been losing quite a lot of people to Odin and Ragnarok lately. 3 of my friends just transferred in the past week, and also noticed at least 2 others buy out the marketboard and xferred off in the last 4 days.

While one may argue, "that's just 5 people", there are probably more of them, and they are all part of the raiding community.

[Delever]

We have been losing quite a lot of people to Odin and Ragnarok lately. 3 of my friends just transferred in the past week, and also noticed at least 2 others buy out the marketboard and xferred off in the last 4 days.

While one may argue, "that's just 5 people", there are probably more of them, and they are all part of the raiding community.

Why so? :/
I really wouldnt like the server to lose its raidding portion

[ZoeEudestand]

A3S is breaking statics up because they... I dunno, probably start biting at each other from wipes? They then transfer to Odin in hopes of finding groups that are either on their level or can carry them . It's all Pepsiman's fault. Still though, Phoenix seems as busy as ever to me

[Martin_Arcainess]

Also Since Phoenix is a EU Server it has it's fair share of AUS, US, NA servers and with the the new EU data centre it'd be better for them to move to a more closer server.

[Sane]

In general the raiding community on Phoenix is in very sharp decline, this has been evident even before the expansion was launched and since then it's only been getting worse due to demanding fights such as Living Liquid breaking up statics with increasing frequency, causing progression driven players to leave Phoenix in search of greener pastures.

Put to point, you can ask any raiding Free Company leader or static leader on this server and I'm very sure they could tell you in great detail how difficult it is to find competent players to fill spots in progression groups on Phoenix.

[Delever]

In general the raiding community on Phoenix is in very sharp decline, this has been evident even before the expansion was launched and since then it's only been getting worse due to demanding fights such as Living Liquid breaking up statics with increasing frequency, causing progression driven players to leave Phoenix in search of greener pastures.

Put to point, you can ask any raiding Free Company leader or static leader on this server and I'm very sure they could tell you in great detail how difficult it is to find competent players to fill spots in progression groups on Phoenix.

How come this happened though? That's truly a shame :/

[Tagihi]

How come this happened though? That's truly a shame :/

Phoenix have many casual players many team breaks beacuse of lack of time bored of raids,

[Sane]

How come this happened though? That's truly a shame :/

In the environment of hardcore progression, ever since Exordium disbanded a few weeks after the launch of Final Coil the overall 'bar' for progression on Phoenix has been drastically lowered and at no point has any Free Company stepped up to take back that very same mantle and as a result, the 'quality' of raiding on Phoenix as a whole has suffered, as there is no incentive for players to come here for progression reasons. Ultimately individuals who hold progression as their sole focus will always drift towards servers that contains the majority of the likeminded players, which causes the competent raid capable individuals to who lose their statics to act in this very same manner.

With the advent of EU servers, while I remain hopeful that Phoenix will see a definate influx of new players due our vast casual population I fear that this won't help remedy the overall situation, as servers such as Ragnarok or Cerberus just offer so much more to a progression minded player who's actually doing their research of which server to move to.