Been playing since 1.0, haven't played in years though. My first MMO after RS was FFXI and i spent years on that game. I saw a lot of youtube videos hyping how good FFXIV was in 2019 so thought to myself 'maybe it's time to go back'. Logged on yesterday to a LOT of changes, and realised something eerie, that the server was dead (Ragnarok), there were no parties being formed for any dungeons or content I can do (LVL 37) and only one party formation in the entire world which was for endgame stuff. I checked a census online and saw that it said my server only has a few hundred active characters? So I'd like to know, is this now the norm? I've just came from Guild Wars 2 which always had a healthy amount of people online and looking for groups in all dungeons and maps so it was a bit of a shock. I read some forum posts talking about the game being put into maintenance soon, so have i returned too late?