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Population seems to be growing
JeffSpicoli
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LVL 29 Questing in Greenshade and man, it really seems packed with players. Anyone else notice more players in game this week.
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It's a single server that creates new world instances as needed.
Which means that seeing more people could also be the result of fewer people playing, and therefore fewer world instances.
You can't notice anything with the way the server is designed.
Currently Playing: ESO and FFXIV
Have played: You name it
If you mention rose tinted glasses, you better be referring to Mitch Hedberg.
Or maybe we just decided to stop being lazy and finally started leveling again XD
At least that's me so far!! Early access ...and I finally hit level 18 on 2 toons!! Woohoo!!
It's most probably because the majority of the initial launch population is now in that 25-35 level range. It will make those zones very busy, just like the starter zones were super busy during the first 2 weeks.
Don't be fooled by the "special snowflakes" that reached VR10 a week ago and are now loudly complaining about a variety of issues. They are a tiny fraction of the player base.
Hmmm I have to disagree strongly.
My main guild out of 78 members have only have 4 online over the past week.
My 3 trade guilds out of 500 members each, they are averaging 25-40 members online at any given time.
It is extremely obvious the game has lost at least 50% of its players as the subscriptions kicked in and from what I am personally seeing I would say its closer to 75%.
I do know that most of the players that have capped are working on alts, and maybe what you are seeing around level 29, is those 2nd characters on their way up.
Or maybe you are seeing vets running around filling in achievements, see a lot of that going on in lower level zones.
agree..most have moved higher up. I was playing yesterday on EU and US. It was kind of late yet only passed 4..
There are always some in cities yet.. it should not be that dead for a 1 month old. Try EU..if you are not playing prime time its dead. Yet you come across TONS and TONS of bots.
They need to do a huge rollback for all the dupes people did and to fix the never ending bots and gold spam. w/w/w ..thats so hard to block for ESO I guessThe population levels are like a bell curve. You're just seeing the largest part of curve in that 3rd zone now.
I play in the VR 1-5 zones mostly now when I PVE and there are also many more there now. That's the high end shoulder of the curve.
I was there last night gearing up my second VR character in the Crow's Wood public dungeon. When I went through there the first time with my Sorc, there were maybe 4 or 5 of us farming wolves.... last night it was more like 30
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Even that is guessing since a) not everyone PVPs and b) contrary to popular belief there are many more than 2000 assigned to the a particular campaign. 2000 is just their desired maximum capacity at once in the whole of Cyrodiil,
Case in point.... I took my noob level 15 archer to Cyrodiil for the fist time the other day in a campaign that is never full, Bloodthorn (US.) happened to glance at the scoreboard after I had a couple of hundred APs and I was listed as 5,500 and something in the scoreboard.
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The only thing I can add is that I have been hearing a lot from the VR folks that some of the PVP has been slowing down. That, added with the fact that levelling through those levels has manifested itself to be a little more difficult now, might have caused a lot of people who weren't spending a lot of time in the PVE side of the game to come back.
That or those who suddenly realized that they may have levelled too fast could have broken out their alts to try and take another stab at getting VR with a few more points under their belt.
I did notice too that there were a lot of people in Rivenspire today. Way more than in the last week actually.
Agree
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Indeed, and once that "centre peak" of the bell curve reaches VR1, there's a very high likelihood that the veteran XP-rate will be increased to encourage players to keep going. ZOS will want to keep as many of the "average" players onboard as possible (for as long as possible), because they represent the bulk of the sub revenue.
personally i have no idea
but google analytics imply ESO is having sharper interest loss than FFXIV
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F064ln09%2C%20%2Fm%2F0jt2y_q&date=6%2F2013%2013m&cmpt=q
EQ2 fan sites
Good stuff right there, that kinda tells the tale.
That's one way of reading it.. The other is that interest has grown steadily since June 2, 2013. Beyond FFARR. You guys...