Chocobo racing was quite popular when it first came out. Eventually, interest in it waned, and it's rare to see many players there now, but the racing area was quite a busy place for a while. Lords of Verminion, on the other hand, was pretty much dead on arrival. People stopped by the first day or two to see what it was, and hardly anyone's been back to it since. The mini-games there, Out on a Limb and the Finer Miner, seem to be bigger hits than the Gold Saucer's showcase game from 3.1.