I'm sure since 1.19 people have undoubtly noticed the population boom with the implementation of chocobos and content.

Apparently, population is continuing on the rise, with Selbina now facing Login Queue's at peak hour play on a week day.

I for one am not complaining, as I like the thought of there being so many players to play with. After all, its called MMORPG for a reason.

A bigger player base could be contributed to WoW recently losing more than 800,000 subscribers since its expansion was released or simply that a lot of mmorpgs are becoming outdated.

FFXIV will continue to have a steady population with its extremely loyal fan base but will undoubtedly decrease with its soon to be Subscription, Guild Wars II (Most likely Late December), SWTOR (Confirmed for Late December) and Diablo 3 (Mid January 2012), but will come back strong with PS3 release, future updates and 2.0 .

Whilst many may shudder at the repercussions of full servers for the future, (Lag, Long Queue wait and World NM), I dont feel like it will be an issue, given the server improvements and other server options to be implemented in the future.

Whilst there are apparently a couple of "ghost" like servers remain, its clear that FFXIV is far from dead.