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ESO's population?
Sharakor
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How many players play this game nowadays? Is it over 20-30k? Cyrodiil is not as packed with people as I remembered it was 7 months ago (before I quit)~ Does anyone have any accurate guesses?
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✭Noone knows, except Zenimax. All we can do is speculate. Or believe some more or less trustworthy websites...0 -
Worstluck✭✭✭✭✭Seems populated as ever to me. Granted the game has gone b2p and it is a welcome back weekend. Some campaigns are little light on numbers, but some are still lag-filled monsters during prime time. I think some pvpers are bored with the lack of content and have stayed away.
Like Xiana said, only ZOS knows hard numbers.Worstluck - Breton Nightblade "Some of us refused to bow. We knew the old ways would lead us back to having a kingdom of our own."
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The weird thing is that back then I used to see hordes of at least 300 players on my team (not including other faction members who were attacking other keeps). Now at best I see 50-60 but the servers show up as locked?Seems populated as ever to me. Granted the game has gone b2p and it is a welcome back weekend. Some campaigns are little light on numbers, but some are still lag-filled monsters during prime time. I think some pvpers are bored with the lack of content and have stayed away.
Like Xiana said, only ZOS knows hard numbers.0 -
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The weird thing is that back then I used to see hordes of at least 300 players on my team (not including other faction members who were attacking other keeps). Now at best I see 50-60 but the servers show up as locked?Seems populated as ever to me. Granted the game has gone b2p and it is a welcome back weekend. Some campaigns are little light on numbers, but some are still lag-filled monsters during prime time. I think some pvpers are bored with the lack of content and have stayed away.
Like Xiana said, only ZOS knows hard numbers.
They reduced the cyrodiil player caps a few months ago.0 -
Arkadius✭✭✭✭✭
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The weird thing is that back then I used to see hordes of at least 300 players on my team (not including other faction members who were attacking other keeps). Now at best I see 50-60 but the servers show up as locked?Seems populated as ever to me. Granted the game has gone b2p and it is a welcome back weekend. Some campaigns are little light on numbers, but some are still lag-filled monsters during prime time. I think some pvpers are bored with the lack of content and have stayed away.
Like Xiana said, only ZOS knows hard numbers.
They reduced the cyrodiil player caps a few months ago.
They've been reduced twice since release, actually0 -
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✭✭Not sure about the exact numbers, but definitely seems more busier in the zones and on PvP on EU, a lot of peeps have came back and new ones on the go too.
Good to see:}
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Ser Lobo✭✭✭✭✭
✭Population control in PvP is Zo$ answer to lag.
Makes sense to me. Too many players on screen, with too many flashy special effects, and you have lag. That was a duh.
Which of course is why, when I heard about 'hundreds of players on screen' before the game launched, I facepalmed. Nobody can do that. If for no better reason than because the infrastructure for high-speed internet in most parts of the world, including my section of the United States, is aweful.
That's not even counting less than amazing PC's and poor programming. That's just the part ZOS can't control.
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This is an multiplayer game. I should be able to log in, join a dungeon, join a battleground, queue for a dolmen or world boss or delve, teleport in, play for 20 minutes, and not worry about getting kicked, failing to join, having perfect voice coms, or being unable to complete content because someone's lagging behind. Group Finder and matchmaking is broken. Take a note from Destiny and build a system that allows from drop-in/drop-out functionality and quick play.0 -
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The servers can handle only so many AoEs at once that deliver something back to the initiator. Otherwise 200 players on screen is not a problem at all.ruze84b14_ESO wrote: »Population control in PvP is Zo$ answer to lag.
Makes sense to me. Too many players on screen, with too many flashy special effects, and you have lag. That was a duh.
Which of course is why, when I heard about 'hundreds of players on screen' before the game launched, I facepalmed. Nobody can do that. If for no better reason than because the infrastructure for high-speed internet in most parts of the world, including my section of the United States, is aweful.
That's not even counting less than amazing PC's and poor programming. That's just the part ZOS can't control.0 -
Genomic✭✭✭✭✭With no information from ZOS, I use Steam charts to gauge (Gabe?) the general trends.
http://steamcharts.com/app/306130#1m
Supposedly 150,000 ESO units sold on Steam.
With the change to B2P, there was a large bump in people playing the game, to about 5,000 concurrent max players and about 3,500 on average.
This has slowly declined over the past 5 weeks to about 2,500 average concurrent players on weekends (max ~4,000) and ~1,700 on weekdays (max ~2,500).
Not great, if the 150,000 units figure is correct, but remember these are concurrent players. Total no' of people who play each day is still unknown.
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Huggernaut✭✭✭✭Playing through at launch and playing through again on a fresh alt this week, I can say that the main campaign you start in, as well as cyrodil are very much alive and active.
However ... the way they handled cadwells silver & gold, is terrible. It's like playing ESO in the far flung future, when the game is just about to close down. Where there was once a populated and vibrant world full of explorers, there is now nothing but a desolate wasteland of solitude.
I could be exaggerating slightly hehe, but the point is clear I hope
Of course the same can be said of Craglorn as well, this of course ties in with, yet again, more bad design choices. If craglorn was soloable, it would be WAY more active, like 1000 fold. Instead, it's almost completely dead. Such a waste of a huge resource.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Huggernaut wrote: »Playing through at launch and playing through again on a fresh alt this week, I can say that the main campaign you start in, as well as cyrodil are very much alive and active.
However ... the way they handled cadwells silver & gold, is terrible. It's like playing ESO in the far flung future, when the game is just about to close down. Where there was once a populated and vibrant world full of explorers, there is now nothing but a desolate wasteland of solitude.
I could be exaggerating slightly hehe, but the point is clear I hope
Of course the same can be said of Craglorn as well, this of course ties in with, yet again, more bad design choices. If craglorn was soloable, it would be WAY more active, like 1000 fold. Instead, it's almost completely dead. Such a waste of a huge resource.
No exaggeration at all however if its solo-able it would be more dead that CadwellsEdited by NewBlacksmurf on April 18, 2015 3:33AM-PC (PTS)/Xbox One: NewBlacksmurf
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C0pp3rhead✭✭✭✭NewBlacksmurf wrote: »
No exaggeration at all however if its solo-able it would be more dead that Cadwells
Yup - most people would complete the content once and never come back."Things which are alike in nature grow to look alike, and the speaking stones have lain a long time lookin' at the sun. Some believe they descend with the lightning, but I believe they are on the ground and are projected downward by the bolt."
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The weird thing is that back then I used to see hordes of at least 300 players on my team (not including other faction members who were attacking other keeps). Now at best I see 50-60 but the servers show up as locked?Seems populated as ever to me. Granted the game has gone b2p and it is a welcome back weekend. Some campaigns are little light on numbers, but some are still lag-filled monsters during prime time. I think some pvpers are bored with the lack of content and have stayed away.
Like Xiana said, only ZOS knows hard numbers.
They reduced the cyrodiil player caps a few months ago.
They've been reduced twice since release, actually
What are the current caps?0 -
Simzani✭✭✭C0pp3rhead wrote: »NewBlacksmurf wrote: »
No exaggeration at all however if its solo-able it would be more dead that Cadwells
Yup - most people would complete the content once and never come back.
Better once than never.0 -
SC0TY999✭✭✭✭Noone knows, except Zenimax. All we can do is speculate. Or believe some more or less trustworthy websites...
The funny thing is they don't know either! I asked for specific numbers on a previous post, asking for the number caps when cyro is low/med/high/locked.
They responded with a graph for NA and stated they cannot give exact numbers?0 -
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✭✭Quite a lot of players in non veteran zones. Busiest veteran zones seem to be VR10 area's for CP grinding. Read a post last week claiming close to 150,000 copies of the game sold through steam (please correct if wrong). Going by the steam sales, in game population should be a lot higher.Edited by phairdon on April 18, 2015 7:52AMYour immersion is breaking my entitlement. Buff Sorc's. Darkshroud the cremator Death by furRubeus BlackFluffy knight BladesThe Fat PantherPsijic Fungal SausageFlesheater the VileCaspian Rafferty FernsbyArchfiend Warlock PiersThe Black BishopEvil Wizard Lizard (EU)Neberra Vestige Fajeon (EU)Salanis Deathstick (EU)Blood Mage Alchemist (EU)0 -
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The weird thing is that back then I used to see hordes of at least 300 players on my team (not including other faction members who were attacking other keeps). Now at best I see 50-60 but the servers show up as locked?Seems populated as ever to me. Granted the game has gone b2p and it is a welcome back weekend. Some campaigns are little light on numbers, but some are still lag-filled monsters during prime time. I think some pvpers are bored with the lack of content and have stayed away.
Like Xiana said, only ZOS knows hard numbers.
They reduced the cyrodiil player caps a few months ago.
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