Midweek PC/NA Prime Time population levels (08/02/17 @ 20:22 EDT)

zyk

This must be approaching a low point. @ZOS_BrianWheeler do you have any plans to breath life into Cyrodiil?

Vilestride

The population increase With midyear mayhem was such a breath of fresh air. Shame it's already died off.

Kartalin

Everyone pvped so much for the midyear mayhem I think people are taking breaks before getting back into it. Weekend should be more normal I'm guessing.

edit: i type words gooder

Rozenwyn

People are definitely a little burned out after hitting it so hard during the Midyear Mayhem event. However ZoS should have closed both Xarxes and Kastav immediately upon the event ending. Even if 20 people per faction are on these campaigns it skews the other campaigns totals immensely.

Pchela

Got so burned out I'm leaving for Cancun tomorrow. Kill those other campaigns that are PVdoor jokes.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

People need a break from the PvP event. I took a couple of days off from playing because of burn out. (When you start dreaming about people with red or blue shields over their heads.... you need a break ). A lot of people who mainly PvE were in Cryodiil for the event to pick up vigor and caltrops on their stamina characters. Also those extra campaigns need to be shut down. They basically became emperor trading campaigns during the event, and are even more so now. Things will return to normal in a week or so I'd bet.

Rickter

the problem is indeed that people are a little "burnt out". the problem is that for a very limited time, pvp was incentivized properly.

create proper incentive, year round, and you will see more consistency in population.

with that being said, why are Xarxes and Kastav still around?

Minnesinger

Vilestride wrote: »

The population increase With midyear mayhem was such a breath of fresh air. Shame it's already died off.

It is over

zyk

08/03/17 @ 20:03 EDT: AD feels the stress of endless southern pressure.

NightbladeMechanics

Rickter wrote: »

the problem is indeed that people are a little "burnt out". the problem is that for a very limited time, pvp was incentivized properly.

create proper incentive, year round, and you will see more consistency in population.

with that being said, why are Xarxes and Kastav still around?

The fact that double AP and Pelinal's boxes were temporary bonus rewards motivated a lot of people too. Don't forget that.

Telel

zyk wrote: »

08/03/17 @ 20:03 EDT: AD feels the stress of endless southern pressure.

On the bright side you have proof that team purple needs 9 bars of players to take on less than 1 bar of the Dumbminion.

4 bars EP, 4 Bars DC, and 1 bar of AP mules/spais.

zyk

08/23/17 @ 20:00 EDT

Solariken

zyk wrote: »

08/23/17 @ 20:00 EDT

Oh snap @zyk is there an add-on that puts all the campaigns on one page?

Anazasi

its called the all campaigns button

Thelon

it's bad and they should feel bad

Agrippa_Invisus

It really has felt like the population is getting thinner and thinner lately PVP wise.

While I can say 'hey there's a lot of new faces in Vivec!', I recognize a lot of them are Shor and Sotha refugees who are escaping the dullness or overnight map flipping zergs and temporarily keeping Vivec's population afloat.

It's starting to get to the point I'm honestly worried about what it's going to be like moving forward.

It would be a good time, ZOS, to boost rewards to help lure people back into the field.

Hint, Hint.

zyk

Solariken wrote: »

Oh snap @zyk is there an add-on that puts all the campaigns on one page?

If there's an easier way than cutting and pasting from screenshots, I'll feel pretty dumb.

I don't mean to sound all doom and gloom about it, but it is a worrisome trend. I think the numbers will rebound in Sept as students get settled and the fall gaming boost begins.

Elong

Being Oceanic, I log on very late, like after 10pm PST. I've never known it to be so quiet.

NightbladeMechanics

I've honestly never seen PvP as slow as it has been lately...

Agrippa_Invisus

NightbladeMechanics wrote: »

I've honestly never seen PvP as slow as it has been lately...

PVP has been ultra dull lately, yeah. Lots of lane zerging, a little bit of pugzerg back capping, and a ton of people trying to just farm in one spot without moving.

Bleeeeeeeeeh.

NightbladeMechanics

2 bars AD and DC, 3 bars EP right now. I don't know where the EP are. DC and AD are all at Nikel, and the rest of the map is quiet. We couldn't even draw people elsewhere. Boring af.

Lucky28

Agrippa_Invisus wrote: »

It really has felt like the population is getting thinner and thinner lately PVP wise.

While I can say 'hey there's a lot of new faces in Vivec!', I recognize a lot of them are Shor and Sotha refugees who are escaping the dullness or overnight map flipping zergs and temporarily keeping Vivec's population afloat.

It's starting to get to the point I'm honestly worried about what it's going to be like moving forward.

It would be a good time, ZOS, to boost rewards to help lure people back into the field.

Hint, Hint.

i think the main problem is Morrowind is basically the Xv1 meta. so pvp is just not as lively as it used to be just zerg here, zerg there faction stack over there etc. it's just hard to find good fight's.

Elong

It's got very stale very quick.

Big blobs fighting over the same areas every day. Try to go to other places to start new fights and get run over very quickly by masses of players who don't want to seperate from the horde.

Logged in for an hour a couple of nights ago and did nothing but socialise. People who know me know I play this game with a passion and log in for a lot of time. It's starting to get in a bad way.

Agrippa_Invisus

Elong wrote: »

It's got very stale very quick.

Big blobs fighting over the same areas every day. Try to go to other places to start new fights and get run over very quickly by masses of players who don't want to seperate from the horde.

Logged in for an hour a couple of nights ago and did nothing but socialise. People who know me know I play this game with a passion and log in for a lot of time. It's starting to get in a bad way.

I'm feeling it, too. Only been playing 2-3 hours a night at most lately.

OTOH, Fallout 4 has some new fun mods out.

Telel

Agrippa_Invisus wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

It's got very stale very quick.

Big blobs fighting over the same areas every day. Try to go to other places to start new fights and get run over very quickly by masses of players who don't want to seperate from the horde.

Logged in for an hour a couple of nights ago and did nothing but socialise. People who know me know I play this game with a passion and log in for a lot of time. It's starting to get in a bad way.

I'm feeling it, too. Only been playing 2-3 hours a night at most lately.

OTOH, Fallout 4 has some new fun mods out.

The pack always has a place if you want to come PUG it up on the good guys side.

Sometimes a change in perspective is just what people need to reinvigorate them into doing the fun stuff. And by fun stuff Telel means murdering nords and dumbmers. No that was not a typo.

Derra

NightbladeMechanics wrote: »

Rickter wrote: »

the problem is indeed that people are a little "burnt out". the problem is that for a very limited time, pvp was incentivized properly.

create proper incentive, year round, and you will see more consistency in population.

with that being said, why are Xarxes and Kastav still around?

The fact that double AP and Pelinal's boxes were temporary bonus rewards motivated a lot of people too. Don't forget that.

I think you could motivate a lot more people if there was actually an incentive to go to cyrodiil apart from pvping.

Give leaderboards actual meaning.
Create interesting campaign rewards.
Finally finish IC and connect the districts to the mainland tying the emp system to the actual city.
Give pvp unique mounts, houses, costumes and other vanity items.

The fact that cyrodiil has not seen new content (apart from 9 capture flags in cities) since release and something as little as doubleAP and pelial boxes manages to motivate people is a good sign not a bad one for me.
People want to pvp. Some/most just want goals to work towards aswell (and cyrodiil never really offered those sadly).