Yes, plenty of people still play. Don't know about any other server, but Kujata is decent. If you happen to start there, let me know.

People go to other places than dunes and do other things. But people do party there too, as well as go to other places.

Problem with that is that they tell you these things before you play. That and to make a Content ID, you have to see the cancel option in the selections with it. So it's not really an excuse. It's the whole " Try for free, and cancel anytime" thing.That's more of a your fault that you didn't make sure you canceled it before they started charging. You should accept you made the mistake and take the hit, it was on you.

So the government screwed everything up you're saying? Just another reason to hate them and their hate pile is already full enough as it is.

The starting levels are solo. You can party if you want, but it's more efficient to just solo. You get to a point where partying is the best option. Even with all the new solo or smaller group options in this game, full parties are still around as well.

People are just trying to get their exp as fast as they can in a party. You can't help that unless you make your own parties, which isn't hard to do, just people are lazy. SMN's don't have too many useful options for a sub which is why most fall back on /WHM more than anything else. They don't get super strong until later in the game, so they're mostly buffers in parties because they have a timer between abilities for their summons. They really have nothing else to do but heal in that time. But, this coming update seems to be changing things for SMN. No one knows how yet, we'll see.

Don't be discouraged, there are still good people. I see them all the time. I like to say I'm one of them.

You can't blame SE for what people have turned the game into. I do disagree with the whole "You must be this job combo or don't play the job..." mentality. Since there are more ways to do things without parties or at least less people than a full party setup, you do have more freedom than before to do things how you want. There are some job combos that are just bad and aren't helpful in any way, and you should be free to do that as long as you are not detrimental to a party.

A lot of people are into efficiency in a party to get the most possible exp in the shortest amount of time. You can't blame them for that. But, there has to be more than just one sub to be able to use on a job for different situations, which there are.

The thing is, people always say "you won't get a party if you don't play this way". That's when you make your own.

You can solo to 18 now on pretty much all the starter jobs, including WHM. Anyway, if you happen to start on Kujata, let me know.

If you happen to start on Kujata, let me know. I'll get you a linkshell.

You get it in an email.

It has to be an official 360 one, and then you also need to get a certain program to make the trigger buttons work. I can't remember the name of it. I know people use Xpadder or something though as an alternative. The gamestop ones suck, tried that and did not work out at all.

I would say it's the same in a lot of MMO's in general. People just want to get things done as fast as they possibly can and use those methods to do that. I've never really done endgame except for Dynamis and that was pretty laid back for the most part for me. People are too uptight and take things too seriously. But they're all over, not just in this game.

No matter how laid back and lighthearted a game is going to be, there will always be those kind of people unfortunately...

I see EU people on my server Kujata, and even have a couple in my shell whenever they're on. Can't speak for any other servers. My wife's cousin plays during EU times and seems to do pretty well. If you happen to go there, give me a holler.

Waiting for a party and actually making a party are two different things. If you're just sitting around with the other jobs that were just sitting around seeking, you never get a party. It's amazing how many functioning party setups would be seeking until you actually make the party.

Can't deny that it could get old waiting around, but that's why you don't just wait around if you want to get somewhere. It's already been said about the changes. I'm sure they'll have it be generally the same positive effects in XIV.

Isn't that FF XII?

You'll need some patience for XI, as everything isn't get it and have it now. Just use the time you're waiting as practice.

That's just characters registered on FFXIAH.com, and isn't a good way to judge the population of a server. Mine has a decent population. If you're just reactivating your old character, you'd probably be fine on your server I'd say.

Nope. FFXIAH.com is the closest thing there is, but the servers can fluctuate so much that you can't really tell what the population is like. That and it only monitors the Jeuno AH, so there is no way of knowing how starting cities are.

If you happen to go to my server Kujata, let me know.

AV still undefeated after the changes. Apathy of Remora beat PW. Don't know any others that did so far. SE posted it on the POL site about it.

I don't know why people are saying you can't jump in XI. I jump all the time without an issue...

Still, just being able to hit a button when you are at an object you can scale or jump automatically in XIV would be the way to go. Just being able to jump around all the time, pretending it's actually doing you some good? Eh...

If you choose Kujata, feel free to give me a holler and I'll let you join my LS.

This is just messed up. I like SE as much as the next guy, but they implemented this way too early. They're going to have to let up on this for a while until that kind of thing is more of the norm. It's not fair at all, and I feel for you guys getting shafted like that.