Is ODIN Dead In The Water.? What Can Be Done About It? Is It Worth Salvaging? Whats The State Of Your Server?

Hello, recently Odin has been miserably low on population, around 900~1.3k max online at any one time, its alot tougher finding a party, anything for quests, missions and end game etc, its just all round bad news.

I would love to hear from people from other servers, have you experienced a huge decline in players in past 6 months? Is it very hard to get help for missions and finding parties etc?

Please let me know cos if it is just an odin problem I will seriously consider switching servers, if its not then SE should seriously consider compressing the servers as population declines so we can have large populations once again and we can all benefit.

Pandy has about 800-900 on NA prime, 1400 Jp prime, from what I see when I get on...the few time it may be. However, our server is notorious for having dual/triple/quad boxers, as well as people who take the game waaaay too seriously and leave their game on 24/7. I'd estimate 500 NA's during prime active. In other words, unless you have a tightly knit group, or make a static to sync and go to 75 at Qufim...leveling kinda sucks.

Not only Odin, I'd say.

Huge topic title is huge. :3

Oh, so sorry your waiting for 5min for party turned into 7min!

Wasn't Odin closed for over-population? Now the overall population is low?

Hey Akhi long time no see! (if you can remember me that is lol)

It's mostly because Odin is still closed(it is, isn't it?) but aswell of ppl selling their accounts before they r nothing worth anymore when FF14 crashes everything and because of Aion.

Garuda averages 500 at off-peak times. Smallest server by population last census. It's not one server, it's the game's playerbase collectively.

Reminds me of Children of Men, what happens when no one else in the world procreates anymore...

If underpopulation happens in any server, i guess it would be time to merge them. Then temporarily would "Fix" the problem.

um, yea.... try more like 1 hour turning into 12+ hours for invite.

What are you leveling... lol Pup?

I don't share this pain because I always make my parties. I've never had to wait that long for an invite, ever, and I'm on the smallest server by population.

thief lol, actually im on bahamut and having trouble finding pt for any job. i've seeked on 75 rdm for 4+ hours before.


yea sometimes i break down and make pt's but there's times that 50% people don't reply, the other 50% say english no thanks

It's because everyone wants a sam instead of SATA(ect.) awesomeness.

Hey kata, of course I remember you ^^.

Well somebody flippantly remarked 5mins turns into 7mins, sorry but you must be a noob or remarkably dim. Its rare you get an invite that fast on any job.

Kinda running to the conclusion that all servers have seen a decline in players. See how the thread turns out~

My fish sales are slowing down too.

Well, thats just it, Ive had enough, If Hellion from Fairy servers fish sales are slowing down, Im throwing the towel in, IM QUITTING, I cant go on knowing that Hellions fish are stuck on the AH, its bad enough there not selling, the fact he has to pay an extortionate fee for selling a stack just boils my blood.

God DAMN you SE, Cant a man even sell his fish without being penalised!

Yeah, this game must be dying. I mean hell, I'm lfp for hours before I get an invite on my drk! Oh wait...that hasn't changed at all.

my weed sales have sky rocketed since there ain't much to do on Ifrit, even people who are on other servers come over to buy my ***.

1500 on asura last i checked...on a Thursday.
I think we're doing ok.

I seeked on BRD for merits for 2 hours and didn't get an invite. *** that ***.

Yes, Odin is hurting.

EGLS are failing and merging all over the place, because between people leaving the server and people quitting, with no new people coming into the server, it just has to happen. My old EGLS recently closed shop after almost 4 years, reverting back to a social shell. Granted, I've only been an occasional player since about May, but still, it was nice to be able to pop into Sea, Sky, Limbus or other things when I wanted to.

It's something that will happen on all servers over time until SE starts to merge some and shut servers down. When they merge them, I predict it won't be anything like "everyone on Odin will now be on Garuda" or something. It'll be more like when Hydra (360 Beta) closed up and everyone had 2 weeks to register with a world shifter, then when they logged in after the time, they were in the new world. Only difference would be, everyone would HAVE to do it, and if you failed to register, your character would be toast.

SO yes, Odin is dying, but it's not dead.

Yes. No. No. Great.

I remember being on Odin, it was so packed that parties were easy to get, but camps were miserable to find.
Atleast 1.5k-2k people on daily. I cant believe its that dead now.

It would seem Odin is hurting alot more than here on Fairy.
almost makes me happy.

let the cousin *** begin.