Friday Night and Nothing but Low Pops?

Banono1

Am I missing something or did the ESO PvP scene vanish?

It is a Friday night and I log in expecting full campaigns and hours of massive battles, but all I got was Wabbajack (NA) barely pushing two bars in population and the rest all low even the brand new one they released yesterday.

I get it is a holiday weekend and some people may be out camping or whatever and a good chunk might be playing the new Craglorn zone, but even with all that I am worried about the future of Cyordiil AvA if one month in it's having population issues on a Friday night.

Sleestak

You got to pve to pvp duh...

Glurin

You'd be surprised at just how massive of an impact memorial day weekend can have on U.S. servers. In this case, however, it might have something to do with all the problems that have cropped up after the last patch. As for me, the game has been virtually unplayable for me all day today, although I haven't been able to ascertain if it's the game, the servers, or my ISP. (Currently the ISP is the prime suspect.)

Skewki

Some of us can't log in the game at all, thanks to error 301

methodofmind_ESO

Most hardcore PvP people are finishing the grind to VR12 to remain competitive with other hardcore PvP people I imagine, as well as doing a once over on the new content introduced in Craglorn. Aside from that, I really don't mean to sound like a jerk at all, but it makes me really sad to hear someone say that Memorial weekend is a bunch of people going camping or "whatever". Though certainly some people nowadays seem to forget what its really all about and treat it like any other "lol lets party" holiday, Memorial Day and weekend is not something you should be referring to as "whatever" unless you have extremely limited feelings or don't reside in the United States. If either of those two things apply to you, then forget I said anything in regards to it at all and feel free to carry on!

fyendiarb16_ESO

Tried some pvp, but since the patch I have the choice between nasty lag while soloing (as a non-VR....ehm...no) or extreme lagspikes followed by crashes when grouped. So there really was no way to pvp for me.

Even now with almost nobody on Cyrodiil lags for me.

Basically the last patch destroyed any chance of pvp for me until it's fixed.

Zershar_Vemod

Been like this everyday for weeks OP.

I had a conversation with a guildmate about this very thing - honestly they need to reduce the amount of campaigns to 3-4 of them at this point and then start relaunching campaigns If the 3-4 stay full a majority of the time.

Lowbei

casuals dont play on friday nights, they are busy having a life.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/100515/zos-wants-casuals-only#latest

Sidereal

One word: Caltrops.

Take them out of the game for now until a solid fix can be implemented for them.

quakedawg_ESO

The horrid server lag didn't help.

Pancake-Tragedy

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

Been like this everyday for weeks OP.

I had a conversation with a guildmate about this very thing - honestly they need to reduce the amount of campaigns to 3-4 of them at this point and then start relaunching campaigns If the 3-4 stay full a majority of the time.

Uhh, no. Wabbajack has had locks for every faction every night up until the patch hit. Then "poof" low pops. I do agree with lowering the amount of campaigns, though.

But yeah, my guess is a combination of the memory leaks, Memorial Day weekend, and Craglorn.

Teargrants

Part of the reason for low pop in Cyrodiil is because they're all in Craglorn getting to V12 now. After that they'll come back to pvp.

Combine new level cap with caltrop bug + overpowered sorc mercenary NPCs and you should begin to understand why there's a drop off in campaign pops since the patch.

Strontium-Dog

EU been very busy for weeks leading up to the patch.

After patch only Auriels Bow has two bars max. Medium, on a Friday lol.

Last night some of us tried pvp but lag spikes were MASSIVE since we also have 3000miles of frikkin cable etc to contend with

Darrett

I did the intro quest to PvP and immediately left at level 10. When I hit VR 12 I'll be back.

I think a lot of people are doing the same, since there's little motivation to go PvP when you know you're just there to be cannon fodder at a lower level.

The other problem is that there aren't really incentives to PvP; I already have more than enough skills to fit on my limited skill bar, and without persistent Campaigns there isn't much alliance loyalty.

Saint_JiubB14_ESO

Friday, well lets see, tons of people couldn't play because of the memory leak bug, and it was a US holiday weekend. not super surprised, so people would take it off and others may not have a choice. at least for the NA servers, don't know about the EU ones.

kasain

methodofmind_ESO wrote: »

Most hardcore PvP people are finishing the grind to VR12 to remain competitive with other hardcore PvP people I imagine, as well as doing a once over on the new content introduced in Craglorn. Aside from that, I really don't mean to sound like a jerk at all, but it makes me really sad to hear someone say that Memorial weekend is a bunch of people going camping or "whatever". Though certainly some people nowadays seem to forget what its really all about and treat it like any other "lol lets party" holiday, Memorial Day and weekend is not something you should be referring to as "whatever" unless you have extremely limited feelings or don't reside in the United States. If either of those two things apply to you, then forget I said anything in regards to it at all and feel free to carry on!

You may think that, but USA culture is make people spend every dollar they have. Hence, camping, travel, visit friends stimulates the economy. playing eso won't. But I agree with you

Zershar_Vemod

Pancake-Tragedy wrote: »

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

Been like this everyday for weeks OP.

I had a conversation with a guildmate about this very thing - honestly they need to reduce the amount of campaigns to 3-4 of them at this point and then start relaunching campaigns If the 3-4 stay full a majority of the time.

Uhh, no. Wabbajack has had locks for every faction every night up until the patch hit. Then "poof" low pops. I do agree with lowering the amount of campaigns, though.

But yeah, my guess is a combination of the memory leaks, Memorial Day weekend, and Craglorn.

Then it must be well past midnight-dawn when that occurs. I genuinely haven't seen anything past low for weeks - guess it's just a timing thing.

BUT that doesn't take away the fact that other campaigns have been constantly low population for weeks. As I have said, I honestly think they should either give some notice in the near future and then remove most of the campaigns at the end of the first 90 days.