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,

[Ragnvard]

Multitude of factors imo:
- in the past there is no loot to savage, so only the like-minded people who truly wanted the challenge will go for savage mode. In HW, if you want the best loot, or raids that doesn't make you snore, you are left with savage. Imo on phoenix there are more savage grps than experienced raiders.
- There is nothing to do in this game outside of raids, so less people playing = less raiders. Even if you are interested in raiding, if your friends are quitting/taking a break/moving servers, you will feel more and more compelled to do the same. How long can you endure before you give up looking for a competent 8th member? Hell, there just isn't fun content in game. No, 3.1 will not fix this with 2 new dungeons (lol?) and a 24 man raid where people point fingers at how sucky each other are while being afk all fight long. Also, leveling an alt is just painfully boring these days while AF2 gear forbid people from gearing their alts effectively.
- There is a pretty big execution gap between each floor. A1S is super easy, A2S is super easy, then A3S suddenly places a proper dps check on the individual basis while you wipe once a while due to server not registering positions properly+bad rng.
- Due to a shrinking general population, raiders like to converge on unofficial raiding servers for new opportunities. Things are not necessary easier, since you still have to struggle with weeding out "the bads", and everyone thinks they are A4S worthy cuz they did 1200 dps on a dummy.


These days the game feel more like a chat room than an RPG. I end up just chatting all day with ppl outside of raids, post stuff on the MB for giggles, pvp once a while, raid when everyone show up with a good internet connect.

Today I logged in at 8pm svr prime time and had no queue. GG.

I beg the question: "What selling point does Phoenix have?"