Has anyone else noticed that everything FFXIV on the net seems to be growing quite cold and lifeless? Alla is slow compared to the FFXI days thanks to the SE forums stealing most of the game's online presence. I don't like that, but its explainable.
Even the SE forums now seem to be very much dead, by my standard of web activity. I have perused the GD, DoH, DPS, Healer, and Tank forums daily since the game launched - and for all the place being a hive of scum, villainy, whining, and ***-hats it was at least very active. Not so anymore. It seems to be stuck in the "forum death spiral" where you see the same threads (literally the same individual ones) on the main page day after day, with only a handful of new posts keeping them bumped and almost zero original content.
Go a Google search for anything FFXIV related. Try 'FFXIV earn gil crafting' for something real basic. The whole first results page will be stuff from mostly 2013.
Check the other old forums like BG. Their FFXIV sections are 99% dead, full of unmoving 100+ post threads with nothing new posted in weeks or months. Even GFAQs thread list only moves a few slots over the course of a day.
The FFXI forums were active and busy-busy for years upon years. What do you think gives?
Edit: Typo.
Edited, May 30th 2014 2:06pm by DarkswordDX