How healthy is your server?

[FHT]

In a game where Fishing is endgame and glamour is king. Owning a fleet is pretty fucking baller.

lol

What's the point of anything, man?

The more I play XIV the more this question comes up.

[Neon_Sea]

"How dead is your server?" - Dead as fuck

[Ratatapa]

Probably less than you'd like unless you were really confident you'll never come back to the game. Having a lot of classes leveled and geared isn't rare and this game lacks super rare/unique items to add real value to an account. I'm probably wrong though, because I wouldn't be surprised if there's some idiot willing to fork over thousands for an account that is overpriced.

Well a Legacy account is still worth some $$$ for the sub price

[Taint]

Dead, real dead, like Carth's raid group dead.

[Deuce]

Well a Legacy account is still worth some $$$ for the sub price

Yeah that's true, but there are a lot of legacy accounts floating around out there. I was referring more to items like mythics/relics in XI and other rare gear. Gear that XIV severely lacks. Hell, leveled crafts in this game aren't nearly as valuable as they could be.

[Fievel]

"How dead is your server?" - Dead as fuck

^

[Carth]

Dead, real dead, like Carth's raid group dead.

[Arthars]

Chocobo (where my main is) seems to be..holding. Sargatanas (one of my alts) I seen a huge decline but the usual OMNICRAFTER LOOKING TO RIP YOU OFF!, SAVAGE SEEKING BRD/MCH! PFs and such, but it's as usual crowded in GoblinShire. Static wise though, I'd say across the board on the servers I play has been blowing up/dropping quite nicely after knowing we have 2 months till more content. You're right though, A3S is pretty much the t8 of this generation where it's making or breaking groups. (Yes T8 wasnt hard but 7 was even easier.)

I BELIEVE the main thing about Gilgamesh is the fact it's one of the unofficial RP servers due to Balmung always being full, so people seem to go there for a "fresh perspective"...I mean if you're going there to raid I pity you.

you are in chocobo? wats ur ign

Also chocobo is more than holding lol i got my 2nd clear for my mule alex savage turn 4 in pugs 2 weeks a row now, i think its awesome still

[Spuki]

Balmung is pretty lively, probably the highest population server I've been on.

Spoiler: show

Too bad the Party Finder is pretty dead during early EU hours...

[Churchill]

I just want to say, you know people from FFXIV are leaving the game because when I log into Wildstar people are calling the 5 man dungeons "raids".

[Kipling]

Isn't that a wow thing? WoW people call everything raids in my experience, it took me a long time to stop calling things "instances" or "BCNMs".

[Churchill]

There were a lot of WoW people before, their recent patch/expansion was having people try the game out before F2P and I never saw it until now really.

I mean, they are literally called Veteran Dungeons lol. Just a joke regardless.

[Rocl]

Just a joke regardless.

just like xiv raids amirite

[Churchill]

lol.

Well technically, the closest thing FFXIV has to a raid is the Crystal Tower stuff. By that definition, then yes, most definitely. Coil and Alex are more similar to what Darnus was in 1.0, which I would have never called a raid.

[Niiro]

I don't think anyone would were they not officially designated "raids" by the devs.

They're boss fights, sometimes with pointless trash.

[Deuce]

I don't think anyone would were they not officially designated "raids" by the devs.

They're boss fights, sometimes with pointless trash.

The trash isn't exactly pointless. It's there to waste your time and force you to contemplate why you still play this game.

[Lumi]

Shiva is declining slowly. The end game raid scene seems to get smaller and smaller each time I resub, with most people transferring onto bigger servers to find a group.

[Classikmage]

I give this game about a year before it deteriorates to the state that FFXI is in right now. FFXIV is officially on life support.

[Spider-Dan]

I'm actually frightened of how much I'm counting on airship exploration to save the game. If it sucks, I honestly can't think of a reason to continue logging in.

[Katlan]

I give this game about a year before it deteriorates to the state that FFXI is in right now. FFXIV is officially on life support.

I give it about a year until they lose enough subs that Yoshi-P gets his head of out his ass in designing super grind content (i.e, red scripts) and savage for the 1% and goes back to the 2.0 model of being more flexible. It will take him losing enough subs that he can no longer say "5 million active players" (which I think is bullshit anyways even though the 3.1 trailer stated that also.... people have been dropping like fly's since 3.0 and I highly doubt they are getting the amount of people they used to.

I know people are getting burnt out because completionists have a hell of a weekly grind each week: (1) eso, (2) red crafting scripts, (3) red gathering scripts, (4) TT tournies, (5) savage. and then in 3.1 you can add in (6) Pokemon Tournies to weekly (7) Crystal Tower 2.0, (8) Dailies (albit temporary unless they are really stupid and make them like ixal). All that stuff will have a weekly grind attached. Thats a LOT of shit to do each week/every other week when your already getting burnt out.

A successful mmo imo gives you a reason to log in a bunch each week, but also lets you take a few days off w/o feeling like you will fall behind