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.

[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]

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)

[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?

[AureliusDraconium]

Aside from hunts and gathering there is not much to do in the HW areas if you have already used most of your side quests to level your main to 60 like what I did when HW launched. Now on my alt classes i run dungeons or run fates in northern thanalan still. The areas have been dead for the longest time. Some of this has to do with the fates and how still grinding fates in Northern Thanalan is still more appealing than running fates in the new zones since the fates are closer together and you have a easier time following the player mobs from fate to fate because they are on foot. Also when HW launched the fates in the new areas gave less exp than in northern thanalan, player base caught on to this and no one touched the fates in the new areas. SE gave them a exp buff shortly after but the damage has been done...

[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.

[AureliusDraconium]

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

Well there was a extended time for the release of patch 3.1 which played a part in it. The hype of heavensward died off a bit which happens with a lot of mmos. Also there has been a mass exodus of players to servers such a gilgamesh which is the most populated alongside Balmung since people are looking for raid groups and also since it is a highly suggested server when someone asks where to transfer. A lot of people from the primal Datacenter recently transfered to the Aether Datacenter since primal has had some duty finder issues. There have been a lot of factors which have contributed to player populations in the end.

[Mikedizzy]

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, let's take a look:
1. Hunts...most would consider this a pain in the ass and a near waste of time.
2. Gathering...people get what they need and get out.
3. FATES...only popular in some areas, mainly HInterlands and N.Thanalan still. Dungeons just way better right now.
New Anima Weapon should breathe life back into the open world again...we shall see.

[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.