Remember Everyone, FFXIV is a dying game :^)

[ForteNightshade]

This makes me feel a bit uneasy about the queues once shadowbringers come..I sincerely hope I don't have to deal with yet another four hour queue just to get into the game. Don't even get me started on the topic of all the afk crafters.

I really hope they immediately implement the auto server shut down for 5-10 minutes they did if queues do get backlogged. Yes, it's a annoying but that alleviated so much problems since a LOT of people stay logged in when they're at work or school.

[Seoulstar]

I really hope they immediately implement the auto server shut down for 5-10 minutes they did if queues do get backlogged. Yes, it's a annoying but that alleviated so much problems since a LOT of people stay logged in when they're at work or school.

While I found it annoyed at first. I became very thankful, the queues at least went by quicker and I didn't wait forever to get back in.

[StarRosie]

Has anyone really said FF is dying though?

Buried somewhere DEEP in the forums, is an ancient thread that documents everytime FFXIV was declared to be dying or dead. Last I saw it, that total was somewhere in the 25 to 40 range. But it's been a while, so I'm either lowballing it or yeeting these numbers into the stratosphere...

FOUND IT! I was actually really close. 49 times. Enjoy, it's a hoot.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...al-Fantasy-XIV

[AriaFairchild]

What does this serve aside from assuaging one's insecurity?

[BunnyChain]

No one:

OP: Remember Everyone, FFXIV is a dying game :^)

I wonder how many people started playing recently because of the marketing...

[Alucard135]

Has anyone really said FF is dying though?

Some said Eureka killed the game. Still waiting to see that.

[LashL]

Some said Eureka killed the game. Still waiting to see that.

Na it just killed the relic grind for a lot of people tbh, at least for me xd.

[Bonbori]

Why does EU has so smol playerbase. >.<

They're all on Crystal playing with us :P

A lot of us play on Aether, Primal and Crystal because the ping is tolerable and there's simply more players around. It's particularly great as a night owl.

Purrrrrtty much ^^

I can't speak for anyone else but despite living on the EU side of the world, I prefer NA servers in online games, by a long shot. In FF14, I started on Primal, transferred to Aether and eventually ended up on Crystal after the recent shuffle. All throughout, my ping has been relatively good (and I suspect, with how bad US internet is, I probably have better connection than many people who actually live there XD) and I enjoy playing with a large English-speaking population that's predominantly active around evening/night which is the only time I get to play without constant distractions.

Conversely, my past experiences with EU servers in other games (predominantly SWTOR) gave me the impression that the community was very fragmented by language barriers and timezones. Every time I used matchmaking, it was a coin toss whether I could even communicate with whoever I got, and even finding a guild with a consistently active roster was a challenge. Eventually, I decided to eat the couple ms of extra ping in exchange for consistency and have had much better online experiences since.

[Altera]

Buried somewhere DEEP in the forums, is an ancient thread that documents everytime FFXIV was declared to be dying or dead. Last I saw it, that total was somewhere in the 25 to 40 range. But it's been a while, so I'm either lowballing it or yeeting these numbers into the stratosphere...

FOUND IT! I was actually really close. 49 times. Enjoy, it's a hoot.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...al-Fantasy-XIV

And that Youtube channel called Work to Game, had some many Why XIV is dying, XIV is Dead etc titles in their videos. Specially loved it when WOW BFA was about to launch when they posted a Why XIV is dying and we are not playing it anymore but BFA would be awesome xD
The This <GAME> is dying, needs to die off xD

[Dualblade]

For those asking "when was the last time people said it was a dying game?"

It was when the data center split happened two months ago. There was a lot of crying doom over that, especially from all the people who thought the Crystal data center would be dead from its players moving back to Aether for the raiding scene.