Where did all the people go?

Love_Daggerfall

Yesterday I played all day.
ESO is no longer the busy bee hive it used to be.
I mean now you can walk for 1 hour in the open and you will be lucky to come accross 6 people.
All this grinding for hours to get crafting parts to craft weapons and armour reminds me of Destiny and makes me miss it.
Backwards compatiblity will be with us console users very soon, so many games and so little time...

phairdon

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

Its been so long since PC users had any new content its no surprise the place is semi deserted. Wait till they put out something new people will come flocking back.

HabOh

There's most definitely going to be a drop in the playerbase BUT I'd say most probably moved to the next zone, there's been a bit of shifting going on. I noticed just the other day how packed Mournhold was and now even Stormhold.

FelixTheCatt

NA Aldmeri Dominion on Ps4 here. I can already see a noticeable drop in players as well. At least it sure seems like it.

Anlaemar

Unless it's 3am in the morning this isn't an issue I have and if the problem is there I don't see it a problem. If some random zone isn't that populated it just means not very many people are questing and are grinding or off doing something else. Questing is more of a solo thing, so this really doesn't hurt anything IMO.

Maybe a suggestion to ZOS: place bigger events (like Dolmens) in the game that bring more players together in a zone?

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Love_Daggerfall

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

The next zone was probably that new batman game or something else.

FelixTheCatt

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

The next zone was probably that new batman game or something else.

Apparently not if you're on a pc or Ps4 from what i've been hearing. ><

Love_Daggerfall

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Its been so long since PC users had any new content its no surprise the place is semi deserted. Wait till they put out something new people will come flocking back.

Yes there is a lot of game franchises where people only play the game for new game content then once they have compleated it they play something new.
I'm thinking
1. Mass Effect
2. Borderlands
3. Destiny
4. GTA 5
5. Halo
6. Dying light
They all suffer from game drop off until the next big dlc.

Akavir_Sentinel

ESO has been out on consoles for less than a month and you're already complaining about no one playing ESO anymore?

Rosveen

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

The next zone was probably that new batman game or something else.

I'm pretty sure they all ragequit the new Batman game very soon.

Love_Daggerfall

HabOh wrote: »

There's most definitely going to be a drop in the playerbase BUT I'd say most probably moved to the next zone, there's been a bit of shifting going on. I noticed just the other day how packed Mournhold was and now even Stormhold.

These are either very large Guilds that suport everyone with the one misions
or
It's people who want to play the game until they compleat the campain.
I don't think anyone plays anygame to get all the acheivments anymore.

Love_Daggerfall

FelixTheCatt wrote: »

NA Aldmeri Dominion on Ps4 here. I can already see a noticeable drop in players as well. At least it sure seems like it.

At least its easyer to have a conversation now days.

phairdon

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

HabOh wrote: »

There's most definitely going to be a drop in the playerbase BUT I'd say most probably moved to the next zone, there's been a bit of shifting going on. I noticed just the other day how packed Mournhold was and now even Stormhold.

These are either very large Guilds that suport everyone with the one misions
or
It's people who want to play the game until they compleat the campain.
I don't think anyone plays anygame to get all the acheivments anymore.

You'd be surprised. This game has its share of achievement hunters, going by discussions on the forum.

nimander99

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

heh heh heh heh heh

Love_Daggerfall

Anlaemar wrote: »

Unless it's 3am in the morning this isn't an issue I have and if the problem is there I don't see it a problem. If some random zone isn't that populated it just means not very many people are questing and are grinding or off doing something else. Questing is more of a solo thing, so this really doesn't hurt anything IMO.

Maybe a suggestion to ZOS: place bigger events (like Dolmens) in the game that bring more players together in a zone?

The internet never sleeps
When australians wake up all the USA is going to bed.
When australians goto bed all the USA is waking up.
The English and Africia fillin the times when people are normaly at work or in school.
I'm on goverment payments so I play 12 to 15 hours per day.
The dropoff has been all day yesterday.
Australia kids have school holidays soon but that's when Backwards compatibility comes out for Xbox both consoles and PC.
I'm personaly looking forward to playing a game with xbox 360 xbox one and PC player all in the one game on the same server.

Mitchblue

I still see "dead" people. Probably less but I haven't had a Q in over a week. Maybe the made the mega server bigger .. don't know.

Akavir_Sentinel

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Anlaemar wrote: »

Unless it's 3am in the morning this isn't an issue I have and if the problem is there I don't see it a problem. If some random zone isn't that populated it just means not very many people are questing and are grinding or off doing something else. Questing is more of a solo thing, so this really doesn't hurt anything IMO.

Maybe a suggestion to ZOS: place bigger events (like Dolmens) in the game that bring more players together in a zone?

The internet never sleeps
When australians wake up all the USA is going to bed.
When australians goto bed all the USA is waking up.
The English and Africia fillin the times when people are normaly at work or in school.
I'm on goverment payments so I play 12 to 15 hours per day.
The dropoff has been all day yesterday.
Australia kids have school holidays soon but that's when Backwards compatibility comes out for Xbox both consoles and PC.
I'm personaly looking forward to playing a game with xbox 360 xbox one and PC player all in the one game on the same server.

ESO isn't cross-platform, and won't be.

Love_Daggerfall

Spectral_Lord wrote: »

Really? Today, just now actually, I re-rolled one of my characters to the Aldmeri Dominion on PC. And there are still a lot of people running around there. Chat seems to be the most active there, too.

I'm very happy to read that information.
Thanks for sharing it.

phairdon

nimander99 wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

heh heh heh heh heh

Here I am thinking my response was legitimate lol

p_tsakirisb16_ESO

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Yesterday I played all day.
ESO is no longer the busy bee hive it used to be.
I mean now you can walk for 1 hour in the open and you will be lucky to come accross 6 people.
All this grinding for hours to get crafting parts to craft weapons and armour reminds me of Destiny and makes me miss it.
Backwards compatiblity will be with us console users very soon, so many games and so little time...

You are out of context mate because you do not say where, level, time.

2am in the morning even Vulkhel Guard is empty........

Love_Daggerfall

FelixTheCatt wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

The next zone was probably that new batman game or something else.

Apparently not if you're on a pc or Ps4 from what i've been hearing. ><

Yer I don't play on either of them.
Your probably correct

slipHAZARD

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Anlaemar wrote: »

Unless it's 3am in the morning this isn't an issue I have and if the problem is there I don't see it a problem. If some random zone isn't that populated it just means not very many people are questing and are grinding or off doing something else. Questing is more of a solo thing, so this really doesn't hurt anything IMO.

Maybe a suggestion to ZOS: place bigger events (like Dolmens) in the game that bring more players together in a zone?

The internet never sleeps
When australians wake up all the USA is going to bed.
When australians goto bed all the USA is waking up.
The English and Africia fillin the times when people are normaly at work or in school.
I'm on goverment payments so I play 12 to 15 hours per day.
The dropoff has been all day yesterday.
Australia kids have school holidays soon but that's when Backwards compatibility comes out for Xbox both consoles and PC.
I'm personaly looking forward to playing a game with xbox 360 xbox one and PC player all in the one game on the same server.

I think you got the wrong idea about what backwards compatibility is dude.

Love_Daggerfall

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

ESO has been out on consoles for less than a month and you're already complaining about no one playing ESO anymore?

I'm not complaining I'm just voicing that ESO is having a drop off in people.
Reminds me of the game is now settling down after the big rush.

Love_Daggerfall

Rosveen wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

The next zone was probably that new batman game or something else.

I'm pretty sure they all ragequit the new Batman game very soon.

So many new games coming out it's like one every two weeks now.
I can't keep up anymore.

Blutengel

I'm taking a break to play the final fantasy xiv expansion. I still log in everyday to do my dailies and train my mount on all characters.
ESO is just a game I'm playing casually and I enjoy it more by doing so.
I love me some ESO but I need some "time out from tamriel"
Don't worry though more people will start pouring in with each major update.

Love_Daggerfall

phairdon wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

HabOh wrote: »

There's most definitely going to be a drop in the playerbase BUT I'd say most probably moved to the next zone, there's been a bit of shifting going on. I noticed just the other day how packed Mournhold was and now even Stormhold.

These are either very large Guilds that suport everyone with the one misions
or
It's people who want to play the game until they compleat the campain.
I don't think anyone plays anygame to get all the acheivments anymore.

You'd be surprised. This game has its share of achievement hunters, going by discussions on the forum.

Well I'm very happy that I'm wrong in my information.
Thanks for sharing it.

Love_Daggerfall

nimander99 wrote: »

phairdon wrote: »

Perhaps players moved to the next zone?

heh heh heh heh heh

The next zone is Backwards compatibiblty for all thing Microsoft.
I wonder how many people are going to jump back on older games.
Buying older xbox 360 games is getting had to do as most retailers have been scaling back xbox 360 sales for months now.

dreatern

On PS4 all my ESO friends are back to FF14 right now because the new expansion and some are playing batman.
The lack os incentive to group while leveling make then go away. But I'm still here addicted playing solo....

Love_Daggerfall

Mitchblue wrote: »

I still see "dead" people. Probably less but I haven't had a Q in over a week. Maybe the made the mega server bigger .. don't know.

ESO did do a lot of work on there servers when the game first came out on consoles.
The game plays purfect for me now.