The number of players is decreasing across all servers. This is especially noticeable on the Sapphire and Pearl servers, where the player base is steadily declining. Many users are either moving to the Emerald server or quitting the game entirely.
This issue is particularly serious for players in East Asia (China, Japan, Australia, Korea, and Eastern Russia). The timing of server events (such as Catacombs, MM, etc.) starts at midnight (00:00), which makes participation very difficult since it is during normal sleeping hours.
Therefore, I would like to suggest two possible solutions:
First, adjust the event times on the Emerald server—where the player base is still relatively stable—so that players in East Asia can also participate to some extent.
If that is difficult, then at least consider moving some key events (for example, one of the two weekly Catacombs runs, and MM) to an earlier time.
Even the Pearl server, which is considered an Asian server, is actually scheduled based on West Asia, and the Emerald server, although European, is also effectively aligned with that region.
For this reason, I believe that aligning the event times of the Pearl and Emerald servers with those of the Russian server would help attract more players from various countries.
Please consider this suggestion.
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