Players are leaving?

[Theplatter]

Please keep in mind that there's a tremendous difference between a "bad" player and a new player; even if the new player has been playing a while but is new to content such as dungeons and primal fights. I know of plenty of "bad" players on my server who've been playing since CE or so and will continue to be bad because they refuse to learn. On the flipside, some of the best players in my shell are still new to some content but can pick it up after one or two tries. If people actually stop and listen, and give new strategies a shot, I'll almost never call them a bad player.

[Zumi]

I have noticed a drop off in players and it makes it hard to do anything outside of exping. Everything revolves around 8 player content and people have their 8 man groups set in place which they don't invite other people. The game seems very clickly like FFXI was people will rarly do anything outside their group they already have. Which makes it so people who do not have this kind of group of players not able to do anything.

[Rau]

I have noticed a drop off in players and it makes it hard to do anything outside of exping. Everything revolves around 8 player content and people have their 8 man groups set in place which they don't invite other people. The game seems very clickly like FFXI was people will rarly do anything outside their group they already have. Which makes it so people who do not have this kind of group of players not able to do anything.

People are always shouting for Ifrit, Darkhold, and occasionally one of the newer raids on Durandal.

[Zumi]

People are always shouting for Ifrit, Darkhold, and occasionally one of the newer raids on Durandal.

The only thing I need stuff from is AV, CC, Garuda and Hamlets. Which I rarely see shouts for.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

The only thing I need stuff from is AV, CC, Garuda and Hamlets. Which I rarely see shouts for.

I haven't seen Hamlet or Garuda shouts, but I have seen AV and CC, but I don't know if they are speedruns or AF runs or what. Most people are more comfortable doing stuff with a group they are familiar with but I've gone many times with like 2 PUG members.

[Rau]

The only thing I need stuff from is AV, CC, Garuda and Hamlets. Which I rarely see shouts for.

Very few people do Garuda, if it all, since the BLMfix patch, even less since the WAR patch.
Have you tried hanging out around a Hamlet during battle period? There are people there shouting.

I've noticed pick ups can't even complete AV and CC unless its for AF, so I can't give you any solution for that besides join an ls that does stuff.

[Zumi]

Very few people do Garuda, if it all, since the BLMfix patch, even less since the WAR patch.
Have you tried hanging out around a Hamlet during battle period? There are people there shouting.

I've noticed pick ups can't even complete AV and CC unless its for AF, so I can't give you any solution for that besides join an ls that does stuff.

Have a couple LS its just that people quit leaving not enough left to do much of anything. I don't want to have to constantly be finding new LS every time people quit. I don't mind pick ups but game has been designed around people only wanting to do stuff in a set group again. I am sure all this will be solved when there is content finder and I can queue up for stuff I want to do but that won't be out until 2.0.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I do detest the 8 man groups sometimes. It feels like if I am the 9th person to log into an LS I am out of luck for that day. Some LS will swap people in and out but not all...

One of my current LS's seems to aim to have 6-7 active members likely to be on at a time and the just pull an additional person out of one of our other LS's.

[Fear]

Yoshi or a rep did say Alliance type content was coming in the future

[Arkine]

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