Pools Closed (Asura Is Full!)

as stated it was taken twice a day and outputted to an excel file, it was not manual no.


pretty sure he is referencing the times asura was over 4k concurrent

ty for that, did you record any other interesting data?

Personally had never seen >4k online but have seen 3800, it was 3800 every day for a while

Gotta keep in mind that FFXI isn't like other mmorpgs that have regional servers (NA only etc), almost all the players on most games are likely to be on during prime time and so concurrent prime time numbers are a good population check. That almost never happens on XI, cause it has JP, NA and EU players on the same servers and they have different time zones.

This is why even a "small" server with 400 people on, actually has 600-700+ if it was a regional server and everyone logged on at the same time. Asura is far more ridiculous that it appears to be, and from a server management perspective it could be very bad.

One of the reasons populations seemed higher in the early years, is cause we were all teenagers and had no jobs etc so NA, EU and JP players were far more likely to overlap and be on at the same time.

I think the number of people that leave their chars logged in near 24/7 even if they only play a few hours a day is higher than ever and a strangely high proportion of players on FFXI vs other mmos.

Of course many are afk MLing every day too, and the game is designed to encourage that so...

It's comfy coming home after a long day and hearing XI music ever so faintly growing as I descend the stairs.

Far fewer are on 24/7 than people pretend is the case. The point remains though, XI servers are multi regional and so concurrent players is not accurate for this game specifically.

If you check player numbers at US prime time you're probably seeing 70-75% of active player numbers. There are quite a lot of JP on Asura, and you don't ever see them if you have a normal schedule in the US.

Of course, i play everyday after lunch like 30 mins or so then i go back work and back on evening. I dont wanna waste 20 mins to loging-in every Fu** day; i always hated the POL platform for log in game!!!

Quite honestly, I think this is why. XI allows you to remain online without penalty or auto disconnect, and the login system is a slog. Combine that, you end up with people never logging off.

not sure what you'd find interesting, recorded the same data for all servers.

people on odin actually log off, probably just more japan based players there and they shutdown their PCs/devices or something.

also was mildly surprised at how big quetz/pho/etc are

Late to the party here, but: Bahamut is server ID #1, at least from an AH perspective. Internally to SE, if anything is the "flagship", it's Bahamut.

For the last decade if anyone thought ffxi, the immediate second thought, good or bad, was asura. (Mostly bad)

This is not true. Asked Rooks about it:
That page is updated at the same time all auction listings are updated.

Within reason that Database page is only inaccurate by 7 Days. if someone quit in 7 days, and their stuff sold, obviously they are going to be flagged as active, if someone's stuff hasn't sold for a long time nor brought in 7 days, they'd be inactive flagged, but could still be playing.

I would bet it's lower in FFXI than in FFXIV, but I have zero way to prove that (other than that they had to implement AFK kicking for Endwalker/Dawntrail and didn't ever do that for XI that I know of?)

agree on other MMOs though

You may say the top frame isnt proper english, but then you must remember its Asura, and theyre dumb.

Yes... YES this is the type of Bahamut propaganda I need to hear!

Can you share this data, too? It's interesting.

Damn... Population really dipped on 9/11

Wow, what graphing utility/API is that? It looks nice

i'm just using chart.js and feeding it a csv, nothing too crazy. i took a lazy route to be able to visualize the data since i was curious what was going to happen to asuras population once they locked it down.

i wish i had been gathering this data for years as there was some pretty interesting population bumps every free campaign, and like i said a few of the servers really have spikes that others don't i.e odin

also sunday morning NA time appears to be when the most people are online across the entire game - if anyone was curious

We are also server 00, so you know... pretty special