Seen a lot of threads about the state of PUGs on various servers. Usually there is some back and forth about whether the PUGs have decreased, but its almost always anecdotal data.

When I started playing over a year ago, and up to about six months or so ago, there were ALWAYS at 3-4 PUGs going in the level range of whatever character I was playing at that moment not including the ubiquitous "1-20 for favor" LFMs.

Now it just gets more and more depressing. There are times I'm on with a L12 Fvs or L11 Bard and not a single PUG is being run at that level. Even during fairly prime time hours, 8pm EST-10PM EST, it's hard to find a PUG that's both in my level range and not a favor run. After 3AM EST? Forget it. Ghost town. Gou Ren or go home... if you're lucky.

In an effort to provide actual data to see if there really is a downward trend, or if this is just a blip (season, competing products, whatever), I'm going to post how many LFMs there actually are when I'm on.

At 8PM EST 12/8/11 when I logged on there were only 21 LFMs listed.

Currently, at 3:30 AM EST 12/9/11, there are a whopping 10 (TEN) LFMs.