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if or when the next round of server merges will be?

No official announcement from SE was posted yet about any upcoming or more server merges happening BUT if people keep leaving, I can forsee another merge occuring just so there are enough people to be able to do things together.

Fenrir shud merge w/ ifrit!! or caitsith!

Can the current Alexander merge with people like the Alexander I remember? Never going to happen but I can dream right?

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Even the most populated servers are shrinking (16k to 13k in lss than a month). FFXI is losing 1/2 server every week according to the stats from the "database" section on this site:

267k on the 10/9/2010
232k on the 1/11/2010

=> - 4711 per week which about 1/2 of the average server.

I don't see how those servers under 8k can be anything close to playable (12 servers out of 24). One is even under 7k, which is like 700 ppl on at any give time.

That's what they get for kicking the playerbase in the nuts with abyssea.

Server merge in december.

I don't see it in December, SE is to proud to admit that they screwed up by rushing in level cap, abyssea, FFXIV and previous server merge into servers with player bases that don't get along with one another.

Edit: I see it in around Feb. or March when PS3 FFXIV is released.

Its all gonna depend on what happens with FFXIV right? If FFXIV survives and thrives I see a lot of XI players switching over, decreasing the population and making a merger necessary. The game in its current state is so shakey though(its getting better!).

If XIV did up and die, I'd see a lot of the XI migrations coming back over. If I had control over it, I'd probably save a server merger for the definitive moment where I could say that XIV is going to live or not. It would be horrible if SE cut back servers, pulled the plug on XIV a few months later, then didn't have the power to support the returning populous.

This is all assuming that most of the people actually came BACK to XI instead of just saying "F U SE!" and quitting altogether.

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I'd be surprised if it made it to it's ps3 release.

There were 1,900 users online on Lakshmi this past Saturday evening. Pchan your numbers are off.

Total server population might be right, but number of players online at any given time is way off.

You have to learn to ignore Pimpchan. His idiocy knows no bounds.

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Blabla, I call *** on the least populated server getting 2300 people on at a given time and you answer me with one the most populated getting even less w.

Incoming screenshot of today's population on either server ?

I was refering to your generic post about 700 people online at any given time based on your 8k population numbers.

I'm at work right now, but when I get home I'll post a screenshot for you.

I'd imagine tonight's numbers won't be as high since obviously it's a monday night compared to a saturday evening. But if you want, I'll even take a screenshot this upcoming saturday.

What possible reason would I have to *** lie? I mean seriously, how pathetic is your life that you believe a 27 year old man would lie about a video game population that in no way affects him?

You really need to get a grip.

does not count, go ahead and check 1pm on week days, you will get like 700 users only, like lakshmi server now, it only haves 600-800 weekdays, expect a server merge in december or feb, it will be worst when guild wars2/diablo3/ and ff14 ps3 release, ffxi will endup like lineage2/warhammer online (with 4 servers only), abyssea killed ffxi

Well jesus christ on a stick. The population right now is 700 people? ALERT THE *** PRESSES.

Its 1:45 CST in the afternoon. JPs all went to bed and most of the NA players that aren't worthless shits are at work. Of course the population right now is and should be low.

*** hate you "Oh my god it's the end of the world" people. Emanuelle is on 14 now, so his opinion doesn't matter.

I'll tell you what you'll find on LAKSHIMI (again, 3rd most populated). When Quetz had 9k player we had 900 at EU prime, so my guess is you will have maybe 1.2k on EU prime and a bit more on US time, and a lot more on JP. That's not the point though, lakshimi has 13K active characters and Caitsith has 7.2k.


edit : got the confirmation from Emanuelle.

on Dark Age of Camelot
they have one server cluster(10 servers clustered together to make 1 realm)
and tops they only get 3000 people online
I think FFXI can last a while~ but i think they need to overhaul a lot of things to keep the game fun.
they can start with stop supporting FFXI on PS2 so we can actually get some graphic updates

Incorrect.

An aging game with outdated graphics that is limited to below 30FPS.
Dragging out WoTG for no reason other than to drag it out.
Raising the level cap.
Most if not all old gear is now obsolete.
No mention of a new expansion pack.

This is what killed FFXI. Not Abyssea. Even then I wouldn't call the game killed yet...

don't forget relic users raging of all the gil they spent on relics when they can make a better weapon for free xD

yeah, abyssea