Is YOUR server this way?

[Mihana]

Lately since Yoshida has been changing so much regarding crafters (sticking them in a backseat) I've seen a drastic decrease in the crafters found on my server. Usually you could enter Ul'dah and find the streets littered with them. These days I see more people idling around than even crafting. It's quieter than usual aside from the random shouts for a party, and synthesis requests go unanswered. Prices for items have made a drastic increase too.

Being an archer I rely on arrows for my damage, on Besaid the price of Cobalt Arrows is 150G per single arrow. I've gathered up the materials on my own and spent a good chunk of time shouting for a carpenter to create them. No response, and this hasn't been the first time. I can spend up to an hour or more doing shouts for a simple materia melding and having all the goods on hand and ready. Yet most often there's no replies, no responses. So I'm wondering, is this the same on the other servers? Besaid was supposed to have had the most talkative community if I recall when the game came about, now it's more silent than before.

EDIT: And it's not just me that's had the problem. I saw one guy doing shouts for a repair and materia melding with a generous reward, two hours later I came back and he was still shouting. I ended up asking a friend I knew to come do it for him. With a community like this I can only fret the game's going to be a ghost town before 2.0 hits.