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High pop today
Server got to high instead of the usual "up".
I do know there are a ton of people playing this game.
I see more people in this than I saw in ESO. Yeah I know ESO had phasing, but still this game costs 150 bucks to have access to right now and considering that it is amazingly full.
When I play it I cant help but think hat this was what ESO really should have been, or at least a start. So basically add another free to play game that did it more ESO than ESO did it itself.
I doubt they ever release numbers but I am very curious to know a ballpark of the amount of people who bought the 'collectors' edition to get access to the alpha. Thousands I am sure. Which for a free to play game looking to charge 150 bucks is hard to understand. Especially when they had 2 other options that were quite a bit cheaper and people only have to wait a month or so to make use of.
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That's one of the major reasons I haven't bought it (yet).
I don't know how many people are in game.
Do you constantly see people around you in the questing zones? Is the chat active? Like at one comment every 30 seconds, or every minute or so? More? Less?
This game is insanely populated right now for having a 150 dollar entry fee. There are constantly people questing around you, to the point that you have to group up for boss mobs so everyone that is waiting gets credit and isn't waiting around for a spawn. Chat is also very active, between zone chat, trial chat and guild chat your chat screen will be flowing quite fast. I guess if your basing the chat on messages per second, its most certainly sub 10 seconds at quiet times and if there is a debate its flowing like any populated zone chat.
It's hard to tell this game is in alpha to be honest.
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Because they don't want to wait a few months and are more than willing to pay the 150$ fee to play the game?
You literally cannot keep up with the chat. Between Alliance, faction, trial, and trade it constantly scrolls.
There are dozens and dozens of people in every quest hub, every quest kill zone and on the roads. Not to mention everyone in the housing zones and planting zones. I got in late and am only running the 15 thru 20 areas now but those areas are packed I suspect the higher level areas are just the same. Plus that is just one faction. going into the shared area (Mirage) you see people from all factions there and it is busy too.
First public garden I ran in to there wasn't enough space to put one potato plant.
people are just everywhere.
I'm not complaining though, I think its a healthy pop and they will spread out a bit and start using their own gardens.
A ton of those people got invited rather than paid.
At least half, ask around people are honest about if they paid or not.
yea, population is full. This is crazy. This is not alpha. Alpha is usually barren where you can run for hours and not see anyone.
This game is already full of too many people like an Open Beta.
I got in for free and I think a lot of people are getting in for free too
Then they started selling alpha invites for 150 a pop.
Then the server has A LOT of people on it.
Conclusion - they just gave all the accounts away instead of selling them.
Really?
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I dont know how many free invites they handed out. I have been with Trion since the start, I get alpha invites to everything...Defiance, trove, Rift, basically every game they made. I didnt get one to this. I got an email with the package options, thats it. I even waited a couple weeks to buy it thinking they wold throw an invite my way. But it didnt come. So I weighed the options and figured the 150 was justified with what came with it.
Either way whether there are a lot of free rollers in there or not it doesnt matter. They are there and they are staying logged in. They arent playing it, seeing it sucks and not logging in any more.
Not to derail my own thread, but it isnt perfect. It has some issues with the down load and missing files but once you get everything where it is supposed to be it runs almost perfectly. A memory leak here or there, but nothing major. Only other issue is you need a fairly decent system to run it. I always put stuff on my ancient system to see how it holds up. It can run most games mid level some higher with fancy configurations. But even with everything on low in AA it capped the CPU. Brand new systems on max settings uses about 55%, By comparison Rift uses about 28% and ESO about 34%. So it is very CPU intensive. But I dont think they have optimized it at all.
But seriously when that is the only negative you can say about something at this stage its sort of refreshing.
Yeah I know the game has been released in other countries for 18 months. This is still a different version and it runs well.
I'm very excited for archeage - not quite enough to fork over $150 - but definitely looking forward to release. Good to hear the servers full, not terribly surprised though, they may have sent out invites to fill the server to capacity to test how it works at capacity. Having it be full at least means that people who are in alpha want to play even after they have been playing awhile. always good to hear.
As for what you've said about archeage and optimization... The client is optimized for sure. I'm sure every important fix over the past 18 years has been implemented in trions version. I doubt you'll see any improvement in the slightest on release day. there _might_ be debugging code running in the background while the game runs, so with that shut down you'd get some gains, but from my experience with betas/live the performance difference will be negligible at best.
So yea, I wouldn't expect better fps on launch, but sounds like the game is coming along well!
As a SWG Veteran, this game is a complete breath of fresh air. It's not perfect, but what game is truly PERFECT?
Can't please everyone.
This game has completely met my expectations and I'm only level 22. A 50 player posted on reddit that he was still so busy doing other things in the game, that he was constantly stumbling upon new things to do at max level. I had relatively high hopes for this game and it seems to deliver on a lot of the sandbox things I was hoping for. Built on a fantastic engine (CryEngine 3), The scenery is absolutley astounding to take in while you run off a giant cliff and glide to the nearest town. Picking my class was pretty trickey, I'm classified as an Oracle class (bit of healing, bit of archery, and Auramancy) and so far it's been really fun to do some ranged damage while also healing/buffing my group. I just love the fact that they throw a bunch of skills at you and let you choose how you want to engage the game in combat situations.
Chat scrolls by so fast you can barely read it.
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Being so slow has its downsides. All the really nice spots (ocean view, hello) in the housing/farming areas are all taken, for so far I've gotten.
Trees...trees everywhere!
Some really really nice looking homes too. You better play with a buddy, to get the most out of the mechanics.
Progressively per mastery level you are allowed less trades you can have at that level.
I was being cheap and decided not to pay the 1 gold needed to setup my own farming spot.
I thought I was being smart by climbing the highest spot I could find and planting my strawberry patch. I still need about 50 for a commerce quest.
I knew the risk was high of it getting stolen but I still took the risk.
I go offline to do my thing. Log back in and IT'S GONE. Red footprints all over...Tsk :-P Lesson learned.
So yeah, it's pretty busy and there are so many thieves around. Waiting for the moment when you're not looking.
If only TERA had so much more fluff...
yeah well thats what you get in alpha and beta tests. ESO was no different. Would I like to have multiple areas with so many quests you couldnt see them all before you out leveled them, thus giving you several options on where you might want to quest (Vanguard anyone?), sure. But that isnt happening.
I would also like to know how many free invites they have sent out. I havent seen any mass give away announcements or throngs of people claiming they got one.
Like I said I alpha'd TRUE alpha games Trion has made. But I didnt get any indication of that happening on this one. Maybe because I didnt buy Defiance and didnt even bother with Trove. But unlikely since AA is in the wheelhouse of games I play.
Regardless even if half the people I have seen the past couple days paid it is still a lot of people. Especially for the price tag they put on it.
I am the ultimate free to play guy, dont spend any money on anything, make in game cash and play for free. But I weighed everything and decided to pay the 150. its a game that will actually be worth subbing to by the restrictions. Whether it be with cash or in game transactions. But it will be more justified holding a sub in this game (from what we know) than it is in Rift, because Rift simply gives too much for free and what you get for a price isnt really worth it. But we still dont have a complete picture of what this game will offer either.
Obviously it was a weekend but the alpha hs also been out for over two weeks and the area I was in yesterday and today takes about 2 days (8-10 hours) of solid game tiem to reach. So since there were s many people there that is a good sign. Whether they all got free invites Friday and logged in for the first time then might be relevant, but I choose to be optimistic and think newer people heard the positive reactions and bit the bullet for the buck fifty.
And why would you buy a game and pay a sub when the game is still in beta.
ESO.
I'm glad i paid the cash to play a wonderful real mmo and not a phasing linear mess with minimal features.
ESO.
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