Early Heavensward areas on Behemoth were...empty?!

[Slick]

It's been a while since I played, but tonight around 11:30 pm on Behemoth server, the early parts/areas of the Heavensward expansion were empty...it felt very lonely in these areas. Has everyone just over on to endgame? I'm only Level 54 so I am not even close to current endgame.

[FallenArisen0990]

Our pop has really diminished since 2 and a half months after 3.0. PF usually has 5 parties on average. I wouldn't say our server is dying but a good chunk of it has either unsub or is in hibernation.

[Slick]

Our pop has really diminished since 2 and a half months after 3.0. PF usually has 5 parties on average. I wouldn't say our server is dying but a good chunk of it has either unsub or is in hibernation.

Any ideas why that is? Is the game dying as a whole? Which servers are the most populated (does anyone know this? Haha)

[Kosmos992k]

Our pop has really diminished since 2 and a half months after 3.0. PF usually has 5 parties on average. I wouldn't say our server is dying but a good chunk of it has either unsub or is in hibernation.

Any ideas why that is? Is the game dying as a whole? Which servers are the most populated (does anyone know this? Haha)

This is nothing more than alarmist nonsense. Behemoth is not dying, the game is not dying, players are spread out.

Quite apart from anything else, if you need any evidence that Behemoth is far from dying, how about the fact that character creation on it is regularly *locked*? That doesn't happen on dying servers.

As for why players are sparse in the lower level HW areas, there are several factors, players are spread throughout the content, not much reason currently to revisit those areas. HW zones are far larger than ARR zones.

Those at end-game play end game and do not visit other areas very often. At the moment there is not a lot of incentive for players to revisit the lower level areas, and besides they're too busy farming end-game or whining about casuals getting gear in Diadem - which they too are farming. The new relic may bring reasons to revisit these locations.

Heavensward areas are vast compared to ARR zones. The same number of players in a HW zone vs an ARR zone will look very different.

Out of curiosity, what time zone are you in? 11:30pm isn't exactly peak time even in EST.

Indeed. Behemoth has always been quietest in the late night/early morning hours EST/CST, which is unfortunately when I tend to play, so it's NOT a new thing for the server to be quieter at that time of the day. I just realized the op is talking about 11:30pm EST on *Sunday* night. Sunday nights are always going to be bad because people generally will log off earlier because, Monday...

There's been a mass exodus of raiders to gilg so no real surprise the PF are mostly empty on a lot of servers

Define "mass exodus" please. When people talk like this they are frequently overestimating and overstating actual fact.

The open world is pretty much dead in 3.0 areas. Most people do lvling roulette and dungeons to lvl up and they usually hang out in limsa or in idyllshire. I only go to 3.0 areas to fly around while listening to some relaxing music.

I've been finding Uldah, Gridania and Limsa are all bustling pretty well. Still decent numbers of new players sneaking on between character creation lockouts, Uldah in particular sees quite a few new players.

I don't feel as if though Behemoth is dead... but then again, I dance around on my rock in Idyllshire and blow kisses at random Roegadyn men... so what do I know?

What do you know....?

Hmmm.... how about, you at very least know to dance and put a smile on peoples faces?

In my opinion the reason is simple...all the content that people do is "qued up for". The "Open World" content is not very popular to most people...
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New Anima Weapon should breathe life back into the open world again...we shall see.

The new Anima weapon will almost certainly bring some life back to these areas, so will leveling Alts.

[GatorWPB]

Behemoth still seems pretty strong, if anything just suffering the same issues as most other servers. Its generally one of the larger servers. Idylshire and Limsa always busy. Many sprouts seen in the 2.0 newbie zones.
Based on the recent server transfer testing that was done, it didnt suffer much in the way of server transfers.

Hmmm.... how about, you at very least know to dance and put a smile on peoples faces?

And the dancing bear always brings smiles to faces in Idylshire.

[Kosmos992k]

And the dancing bear always brings smiles to faces in Idylshire.

The famous Dominant Dancing Bear of Behemoth? I have heard of this.

[DragonSlayer45]

I imagine its the same way on all servers. Don't expect any HW areas except for the Churning Mists or Hinterlands and on occasion, the Sea of Clouds, to be particularly active. Unless there's a hunt up and everyone flocks to the area like a pack of vultures.

[Slick]

I imagine its the same way on all servers. Don't expect any HW areas except for the Churning Mists or Hinterlands and on occasion, the Sea of Clouds, to be particularly active. Unless there's a hunt up and everyone flocks to the area like a pack of vultures.

Perhaps I am being redundant, but why is that?

[DragonSlayer45]

Perhaps I am being redundant, but why is that?

I'll be blunt and say there's very little to do in the overworld aside from FATEs, gathering or the occasional Hunt spawn. Western Highlands used to be a popular FATE grinding spot after they bumped up the EXP for HW FATEs until people realized that Northern Thanalan was still better with less time of travel between FATEs.

I still see Party Finders for FATE groups in the Churning Mists or Hinterlands on Cactuar, and people are in the Sea of Clouds for the beast tribe quests.

[Twilite]

I'll be blunt and say there's very little to do in the overworld aside from FATEs, gathering or the occasional Hunt spawn. Western Highlands used to be a popular FATE grinding spot after they bumped up the EXP for HW FATEs until people realized that Northern Thanalan was still better with less time of travel between FATEs.

I still see Party Finders for FATE groups in the Churning Mists or Hinterlands on Cactuar, and people are in the Sea of Clouds for the beast tribe quests.

Uhm you can't go to northern thanalan til 43-45.. So if you'renot doing western highlands..you're running dungeons.