Where is everyone?

[Jackus]

While playing yesterday, there was a queue to get on my server (Kujata). When I finally get on, a lot of the zones were near empty or had very few people compared to a week ago. I went to Mor Dhona and found very few people while getting tome gear. I went on my archer to level near Aleport which nearly always has a large gathering, yet barely had enough to beat some of the miniboss FATEs. I went to Quarrymill to level my black mage and was no where close to the busiest it has been.

Essentially all of the zones I have been to were very light. Is everyone just doing dungeon farming now? How is this possible when there is a queue to get into the server? I find it hard to believe that this many people are farming AK or Castrum considering that the game is new and not everyone is 50.

[Roric]

1.0 trial period ended. Everyone who double-dipped out of curiosity hit the road.

[Itseotle]

1.0 trial period ended. Everyone who double-dipped out of curiosity hit the road.

Which was expected by a lot of people. But the OP did say he's getting ques, so I could speculate that the people are just more spread out. People are leveling there 2nd or 3rd (or higher) job atm, or leveling a trade, or grinding a dungeon.

[Alpheus]

Also there seems to be some weirdness going on with log ins..... some people like myself keep getting the business with the "Cannot Update NA/EU server" upon login.

[Jackus]

Which was expected by a lot of people. But the OP did say he's getting ques, so I could speculate that the people are just more spread out. People are leveling there 2nd or 3rd (or higher) job atm, or leveling a trade, or grinding a dungeon.

You are correct, I am getting a queue which means there are over 6000 players on the server right? I was used to seeing over 50 players per hub in the low level areas and maybe 10 or so in the 40's. It is a drastically different landscape at the moment.

[Eternal_Arcadia]

Most people are leaving the game, if you check other forums youll see that this games population is going to drop drastically in the next few days. Most of my friends list just stopped logging on, and same can be said for 75% of my linkshell. I think people just dont think this game is worth paying for, and I agree with them.

[Roric]

Most people are leaving the game, if you check other forums youll see that this games population is going to drop drastically in the next few days. Most of my friends list just stopped logging on, and same can be said for 75% of my linkshell. I think people just dont think this game is worth paying for, and I agree with them.

Worth paying for to experience the story from start to finish? Yes.

Worth continuing to pay for the endgame? Absolutely not. Heck, I'd call it less endgame and more postgame.

[Girlie]

The end of this post from Yoshi P explains it: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/88643

In short, the log in queue is not for the server where you play. It is for the server that handles character log in. It makes sense that we'd be getting more of these queues these days because the number of worlds increased, but I don't recall seeing anything that said the number of lobby servers increased at the same time.

[Jackus]

The end of this post from Yoshi P explains it: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/88643

In short, the log in queue is not for the server where you play. It is for the server that handles character log in. It makes sense that we'd be getting more of these queues these days because the number of worlds increased, but I don't recall seeing anything that said the number of lobby servers increased at the same time.

I don't think that is the case. The explanation is stating that if I am ever in a queue to login to the world, that the queue is for that specific world because there are current login restrictions.

[Girlie]

Not having programmed a queue myself, I can't claim that I know the details of how it works, but you and I are clearly reading the same post in different ways. I'll not-in-short restate that part of the post as I understand it, and if you have time to read the resulting wall of text, let me know if it makes sense.

When you go to log your character into the game, the request goes to the lobby servers (which, as I understand it, are in Japan). The lobby server runs a simple check to see if Kujata server (for instance) is currently closed off with a log-in restriction. It's not, so you don't get an error 1017. However, the lobby server is also currently in the process of sending out requests to many various servers, both 'locally' in Japan and across the Pacific in NA (Canada, I've heard?) to log players' characters into their worlds.

(Split for 1000 character restriction)