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[Jeeqbit]

A game without fresh blood is a ghost town.

While I wouldn't say that not having fresh blood necessarily makes something a ghost town, it does make it full of veteran players who all have their own established statics and groups. It becomes hard for those "left out" to find others at the start of their journey, whether that is a journey doing MSQ, Savage or anything at all really.

Square-Enix, you need to start thinking about the number of inactive accounts that are plaguing our servers.

You seem to be misunderstanding something. SE does not base Congested status on how many accounts total have a character on the server. If they did that, all worlds on all data centers would be locked forever. They base Congested status on concurrent connections. This means the peak number of players that logged in at the same time since the last patch. Obviously this only happens at peak hours (evening after work or weekends).

For example, a world could have 5 million characters on it (created over a 15 year period), but they will obviously base Congested status on if they've got a significant amount of players logged in at the same time ie. 5,000. And yes that may look like a small number of players, but across an entire data center that's 40,000 and across 4 data centers that's 160,000 players that could, potentially, be logged in at the same moment in one region alone.

Aether is a deadzone. FCs have nobody signing in, no new players are allowed to come in, and this applies to every server in the entire datacenter.

Not to mine.