Is It Just Sylph Or Is Every Server Dead?

I recently came back from a little over 2 years off the game, and it just seems so dead lately. It seems people only want to fight worms an Aby La Theine or plasm farm in Morimar. There is hardly ever more than 1000 people online at any given time on the server, and probably 30-40% or more of them are AFK/mule/RMT. Is it like this on every server these days? I ask because I am considering moving to a new server if there is one that is more active. I have been playing on and off since 2004 and sadly most of my {long time} friends are gone from the game. Maybe it's time for another merge.

Chances are pretty high that it's like that for every server but I wont pretend I know that for a fact. I can tell you that Siren is on the same boat for a fact though.

What exactly do you want to do?

Could be everyone's trying out 14 right now so that's why server's are dead.

We average around 900 for the times I'm on but usually around 1400 during JP Prime Time.

5 Day beta, I'm kind of burnt out until open bets where I dont lose progress.

All servers have been dead before january, it remains like that even if no ff14 beta days

1331 on Wed NA prime Bahamut.

954 at 10pm est on Cerb.

Was 851 at 8pm.

Pretty dead.

yeah my server has been getting really quiet, its been dropping as low as 700ish when the beta is active.
population numbers aside, its more telling that theres hardly many shouts going on for anything really anymore.

1025 right now on Carbuncle :s

yeah right guys, there is 6k per server and over 100k subscribers /laugh

there'll no doubt be another server merge in the near future, considering the population numbers have been dwindling (whether it be because of people wanting to do XIV, the (lack of) fixes for key issues, the limited amount of content being done these days, etc etc). I know quite a few people that have left XI because they've just become entirely burned out

Summers that time of year though too that people enjoy (gasp!) going outside and enjoying the weather, and doing other things non gaming related

It died when I quit!

Sylph was dead over a year ago >_>

I think numbers have started decreasing when event LSes started to become a thing of the past. Everything now is done by PUGs, be it SoA events, Salvage (new and old), Voidwatch, or even AV. Even endgame LSes run by "the elite" are mostly glorified socials. If anyone is caught up in EG linkshells, it's usually to gear up leaders, so normal members stay more-or-less mediocre. It's easier when you free-lot against strangers, or play with a core group of friends. But when you don't have to race home from work to log on and make events, there's less motivation to be on game all the time.

Also if you care, 1325 people online on Ragnarok right now.
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There are 100 reasons ascribed to the low playerbase but the real reason is just that the game is old. 11 years is a hell of a run. I know im not still playing Madden 2002. There is a season for everything and when its all said and done the game will have spanned a generation. But eventually people move on because the other option is pulling a Ron burgundy and coming back to the same party year after year. Milk this game while its fun. You are paying to be entertained. And when it stops being fun that's when its time to move on. And with the options out there now competing for peoples leisure time that is exactly what has happened

992 atm here. Really though when you consider the game is 11 years old that is pretty good. Our player base is about what I would see on SWTOR or DCU and both those games a hell of a lot newer than FFXI. As for no one doing anything but Delve that's not really a dead server problem that's a terrible expansion problem.

Bahamut is between 1200-2000 depending on what time. Worm party is always full most of the time with people waiting for invite. But yeah pretty much is the SoA crowds and everyone else on content pre-SOA.

Fenrir Eu side totally died out... jp primes 2k ppl , eu prime less then 800

HOW DARE YOU LIKE WHAT I DON'T LIKE!! So mature.

What's the upper limit for a serious person? Cause you're very close to 100, you may become not serious too, gotta be careful man.

Don't encourage him to waste his time, he needs to do more fulfilling things with his life like going onto other boards about obscure hobbies to tell people that their hobby sucks.

Yeah guys, videogames aren't hobbies.