General Population Diminishing

SneaK

I play on Xbox One, and I have to say that it seems like the population has diminished by at least 50%, so many MIA. I realize it will pick back up once TG releases on console, but hard to know if it'll stick.

I am curious if this is the same case with PS, and PC (even after TG release)..

We need some stuff to keep players engaged and wanting to log on..

phairdon

Non vet zones (PC) generally are a lot busier than Veteran zones, for whatever reason. Orsinium was healthy population wise, the times I ventured to the region. Unsure about the new zone, as I have not headed to it yet.

idk

It's very hard to determine the population at any given time since there is nothing central in the game and at that no real mean to determine the population of anything except how busy zone chat is.

With that, one some that is very busy normally may be less populated as players check out the new zone and trial.

Buffler

SneaK wrote: »

I play on Xbox One, and I have to say that it seems like the population has diminished by at least 50%, so many MIA. I realize it will pick back up once TG releases on console, but hard to know if it'll stick.

I am curious if this is the same case with PS, and PC (even after TG release)..

We need some stuff to keep players engaged and wanting to log on..

Sorry mate but you are talking nonsense. Im on xbox and its heaving with people. Especially Rawlka

magictucktuck

Have you been to Wayrest? Everyone at endgame is there or cyrodiil and Xbox has a huge population maybe if your v9 in a questing zone it feels like that but be have a huge endgame pop



For dc its wayrest.

Saint314Louis1985

EP is more populated than ever lately.

XBOX ONE NA

SneaK

Buffler wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

I play on Xbox One, and I have to say that it seems like the population has diminished by at least 50%, so many MIA. I realize it will pick back up once TG releases on console, but hard to know if it'll stick.

I am curious if this is the same case with PS, and PC (even after TG release)..

We need some stuff to keep players engaged and wanting to log on..

Sorry mate but you are talking nonsense. Im on xbox and its heaving with people. Especially Rawlka

Rawlka will always have people there, but the population of the campaigns and the amount of people missing from certain guilds is pretty wild to be honest.

Asherons_Call

I for one haven't found it in myself to log in for a few weeks. I think I'll give it a shot again when TG comes out on ps4. Really hoping they would add text chat sooner than later

THEDKEXPERIENCE

You obviously haven't been to Mournhold in a while. From my experience you're gonna find players on EP NA XBox in the following places.

1) Mournhold: 20 to 50 people standing around the wayshrine shouting for groups 24 hours a day.
2) Davons Watch: You'll find naked dance party newbies here all the time if that's your thing.
3) Stormhold: This is my neighborhood. I personally think it has the best layout to bank and deconstruct quickly. Always a few dozen people.

Belkarth and Orsinium aren't always full but the best guild traders are there a lot so it's never a ghost town.

The Cadwell's silver and gold areas are ghost towns. Always have been. Since there really isn't one main city this was bound to happen. In truth there are probably a few EP cities I didn't even mention that are buzzing most days too.

Saint314Louis1985

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

You obviously haven't been to Mournhold in a while. From my experience you're gonna find players on EP NA XBox in the following places.

1) Mournhold: 20 to 50 people standing around the wayshrine shouting for groups 24 hours a day.
2) Davons Watch: You'll find naked dance party newbies here all the time if that's your thing.
3) Stormhold: This is my neighborhood. I personally think it has the best layout to bank and deconstruct quickly. Always a few dozen people.

Belkarth and Orsinium aren't always full but the best guild traders are there a lot so it's never a ghost town.

The Cadwell's silver and gold areas are ghost towns. Always have been. Since there really isn't one main city this was bound to happen. In truth there are probably a few EP cities I didn't even mention that are buzzing most days too.

you forgot riften.

its like the mall on a friday night. all the teens gather there and have rap battles and stuff.

Callous2208

PC-NA is on a definite uptick. Has been since shortly prior to Orsinium and hasn't slowed down with TG's release.

RebornV3x

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

SneaK

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

PvP/Group Finders/Large Guilds is where I'm drawing this assumption, pretty much no queue to any campaign, long queues to dungeons, and the amount of people logging on in the large guilds. I suppose my sales at traders are also not as frequent (but that could be cause of TG still on the horizon).

THEDKEXPERIENCE

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

It depends on your PVP campaign. I play scourge. Most nights it's an AD party until between 7:00 and 8:00pm eastern. Usually by midnight it's firmly back in EP control, the it repeats going back to AD in the night hours.

I joke that it's because EP players have jobs and are all over 30. Haha. Could be wrong.

SneaK

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

It depends on your PVP campaign. I play scourge. Most nights it's an AD party until between 7:00 and 8:00pm eastern. Usually by midnight it's firmly back in EP control, the it repeats going back to AD in the night hours.

I joke that it's because EP players have jobs and are all over 30. Haha. Could be wrong.

Scourge and Haderus are the only campaigns with a population, and even then there is rarely a queue.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

SneaK wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

It depends on your PVP campaign. I play scourge. Most nights it's an AD party until between 7:00 and 8:00pm eastern. Usually by midnight it's firmly back in EP control, the it repeats going back to AD in the night hours.

I joke that it's because EP players have jobs and are all over 30. Haha. Could be wrong.

Scourge and Haderus are the only campaigns with a population, and even then there is rarely a queue.

If you're saying that the population has dropped off from the launch week, sure. Clearly. But do you really want 297 person queues that last for 2 hours? Just like any other game it's busier on Friday and Saturday nights.

While I have no way of supporting this it seems to me that a few thousand people are playing at all times. It's just a really big game world with a bunch of stuff to do.

Thevampirenight

Consoles still don't have text chat, so basically they don't have zone chat to communicate.
Hopefully, they add text chat with thieves guild for the console players but they might hold off on releasing that.
Yeah they are only releasing text chat I think because there is a huge uproar about not having it. I remember before they confirmed releasing it seeing all those threads, talking about consoles having no text chat and how it was needed.
I play on pc so, we get text chat, we get zone chat, (rp chats, say, yell and emote). So yeah pc is so much better for communicating then consoles atm.
Console players hopefully will have it soon.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Consoles still don't have text chat, so basically they don't have zone chat to communicate.
Hopefully, they add text chat with thieves guild for the console players but they might hold off on releasing that.
Yeah they are only releasing text chat I think because there is a huge uproar about not having it. I remember before they confirmed releasing it seeing all those threads, talking about consoles having no text chat and how it was needed.
I play on pc so, we get text chat, we get zone chat, (rp chats, say, yell and emote). So yeah pc is so much better for communicating then consoles atm.
Console players hopefully will have it soon.

Yes text is better to blast out messages to thousands of people, but you'll never sell me on it being better than voice chat for things like, "Dude, watch out for that monster" or, "Hold up. Pizza's here."

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

Probably makes sense you dont see as many people. The initial rush is gone. People are doing a number of things. Population is spreading out from people leveling up. Maybe a few who got the game didnt like it so they left. Others played a lot right away and now are starting to login normally. Its not unusual for activity to ebb and flow. Like on PC with the TG dlc out I see a lot of people on my friends list pop on i havent seen in a while.

Thevampirenight

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Probably makes sense you dont see as many people. The initial rush is gone. People are doing a number of things. Population is spreading out from people leveling up. Maybe a few who got the game didnt like it so they left. Others played a lot right away and now are starting to login normally. Its not unusual for activity to ebb and flow. Like on PC with the TG dlc out I see a lot of people on my friends list pop on i havent seen in a while.

Well without text chat you would feel more isolated, and it isolates the player base on consoles, see on pc we can talk in zone chat and see it anywhere in the zone we are in. Sometimes zone chat can get pathethic sometimes going into politics or religion but at least, we are able to communicate that is the important part. Soon consoles should have the same ability.
I bet there is a going to be a lot of people talking in zone chat basically praising or whatever on consoles when its finally released. I won't be there because I play only on pc, but I bet its going to be quite the sight indeed.

Lysette

With the phasing technology in place, the feeling of "being crowded" and "being empty" can as well be misleading. When I have the impression it is too crowded, I often try to relog my character a couple of times until I end up in a phase, which looks less populated - those exist at the same time and it depends a lot on in which phase you are, what impression you get.

SneaK

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

It depends on your PVP campaign. I play scourge. Most nights it's an AD party until between 7:00 and 8:00pm eastern. Usually by midnight it's firmly back in EP control, the it repeats going back to AD in the night hours.

I joke that it's because EP players have jobs and are all over 30. Haha. Could be wrong.

Scourge and Haderus are the only campaigns with a population, and even then there is rarely a queue.

If you're saying that the population has dropped off from the launch week, sure. Clearly. But do you really want 297 person queues that last for 2 hours? Just like any other game it's busier on Friday and Saturday nights.

While I have no way of supporting this it seems to me that a few thousand people are playing at all times. It's just a really big game world with a bunch of stuff to do.

I'm not arguing for or against anything, it just seems like the population is dropping and that is somewhat worrisome. I was just curious what other players on other systems are seeing as well. I have invested a ton of time in this game and don't want it to become a ghost land.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

In other news my bracket just got busted.

Lysette

SneaK wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

It depends on your PVP campaign. I play scourge. Most nights it's an AD party until between 7:00 and 8:00pm eastern. Usually by midnight it's firmly back in EP control, the it repeats going back to AD in the night hours.

I joke that it's because EP players have jobs and are all over 30. Haha. Could be wrong.

Scourge and Haderus are the only campaigns with a population, and even then there is rarely a queue.

If you're saying that the population has dropped off from the launch week, sure. Clearly. But do you really want 297 person queues that last for 2 hours? Just like any other game it's busier on Friday and Saturday nights.

While I have no way of supporting this it seems to me that a few thousand people are playing at all times. It's just a really big game world with a bunch of stuff to do.

I'm not arguing for or against anything, it just seems like the population is dropping and that is somewhat worrisome. I was just curious what other players on other systems are seeing as well. I have invested a ton of time in this game and don't want it to become a ghost land.

It might really depend on where you are - I am just in low level zones yet and those are crowded at prime time. I thought of going to Orsinium, meanwhile the hype should be over and I might be able to enjoy it more. But then again, I am a bit afraid that I would spoil the regular zone questing with doing Orsinium instead to quest in regular zones first. So I don't know what I will do, maybe I will have a look at Orsinium and decide then.

THEDKEXPERIENCE

Lysette wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

RebornV3x wrote: »

On Xbox One I notice a lack of players I mean Mornhold and Riften are populated seems like there isn't a lot of people in PVP.

It depends on your PVP campaign. I play scourge. Most nights it's an AD party until between 7:00 and 8:00pm eastern. Usually by midnight it's firmly back in EP control, the it repeats going back to AD in the night hours.

I joke that it's because EP players have jobs and are all over 30. Haha. Could be wrong.

Scourge and Haderus are the only campaigns with a population, and even then there is rarely a queue.

If you're saying that the population has dropped off from the launch week, sure. Clearly. But do you really want 297 person queues that last for 2 hours? Just like any other game it's busier on Friday and Saturday nights.

While I have no way of supporting this it seems to me that a few thousand people are playing at all times. It's just a really big game world with a bunch of stuff to do.

I'm not arguing for or against anything, it just seems like the population is dropping and that is somewhat worrisome. I was just curious what other players on other systems are seeing as well. I have invested a ton of time in this game and don't want it to become a ghost land.

It might really depend on where you are - I am just in low level zones yet and those are crowded at prime time. I thought of going to Orsinium, meanwhile the hype should be over and I might be able to enjoy it more. But then again, I am a bit afraid that I would spoil the regular zone questing with doing Orsinium instead to quest in regular zones first. So I don't know what I will do, maybe I will have a look at Orsinium and decide then.

Orsinium is a good time. Very Skyrimmy.