Is Imperial City Dying?

mr_wazzabi · October 2015

I went into Azura's star yesterday on ps4 na side and the arena, which is the primary farming spot for tv stones, only had 4-5 people inside, as opposed to the usual 20. We wiped on the last boss as there simply wasn't enough to take her down.

I talked to my guild, which is a guild of 500 members and none of them were in imperial city. Many of them were done with it and just went on to play regular cyrodiil.

Does anyone else notice declining interest in this dlc's content?

Flattedfifth · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

I'm on Azura NA side as well and yea, I can farmed for a few hours in the temple district without seeing a single soul ;(

Cyro is packed again at least.

SteveCampsOut · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

I only went there for the sky shards! It has no interest for me.

Laguz · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

I've been avoiding IC because of the long and frequent loading screens, it's great content in there, but it's just not worth it.

Geemarc · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

There is still a queue to get into Chillrend (EU PS4) most of the time (90 people atm).

This is AD populated campaign so not many people are in Cyrodill. It looks like the other alliance campaigns are still full too (Haderus and Thornblade for Ebonheart).

NobleNerd · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

I honestly loved playing in Cyrodiil, but for the most part both seem to be losing population and especially Cyrodiil.

In PTS for IC I didn't see where this would hold the larger of the population's attention for too long.

Also.... I think one of the big issues (still) in pvp is the combat lag many report having regularly.

Rex-Umbra · October 2015

I do a couple hours a week there to get my enlightenment champ points then play lowbie alts

BaldusMageezack · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Once people get geared up most ppl will be done with IC. Not much real content there

mr_wazzabi · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

BaldusMageezack wrote: »

Once people get geared up most ppl will be done with IC. Not much real content there

This sure looks like the case. I guess all the hardcores have their full v16 gear and are done.

Nifty2g · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

cyrodill for zergy fights, IC for small scale
thats what they intended

oSemaj · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

Daedra don't die. They just respawn. Jk. I feel like the pvp folks are up top in Cyrodill getting ap while the pve folks are farming the arena. But there is active players who grind IC

Darkeus · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

enough! no more grinding! to much efort for to less!

MrBeatDown · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

The game itself is loosing its population. Many people quit playing this game because of the nerfs that Ic brought to the game. I have people on my friends list that purchased the IC update, played for about a week, and haven't logged back on since. Also the RNG for this game is *** terrible. Not too many people are happy about the grind for no rewards this game offers.

Me personally, im about ready to give up too. This IC update has been a giant mistake since its inception and has failed to deliver a pleasant experience for the money that I payed to have access to the content so I could get the Items that I needed from it to play in Cyrodiil with. I now find my self stuck in Deshaan, unable to progress my character, because the items I need are bound to account and not tradeable. The RNG is so *** horrible in this game. I just want 1 *** item so I can go back to playing in cyrodiil and it will not drop for me. They need to just put the items in the crown store so we can skip purchasing these bulshit DLC zones that we are not interested in anyway.

So what are TV stones good for ? Runes? That's it? *** that.

Dracane · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Undeniable, it is dying. I remember during the first 1 week, it was so alive.
But now there are times where I can travel through all districts without even finding a single player. There are some veteren IC players who are there everyday. But it has become pretty empty.

This is obvious though. There is almost no reason to play it anymore as soon as you have everything. Cyrodiil is priority nr. 1 again. Though I'm surprised IC only lived for like 1-2 weeks until most of the players were gone.

Drakoleon · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Too much talking for nothing....after some days running around IC eventually becomes just another grinding spot
Its a small map/area? to be called DLC isn't it ?

newtinmpls · October 2015

MrBeatDown wrote: »

I have people on my friends list that purchased the IC update, played for about a week, and haven't logged back on since. Also the RNG for this game is *** terrible. Not too many people are happy about the grind for no rewards this game offers..

I know that intermittent reinforcement (rewards at random and distant intervals) can generate interest. However if they are too far and few between, one sees an "extinction response" which means the behavior/engagement stops and the entity goes elsewhere. This appears to be happening.

eliisra · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

Nifty2g wrote: »

cyrodill for zergy fights, IC for small scale
thats what they intended

Dunno about that small scale, only PvP i've seen lately in IC are these standard 9-12 man mini-buses farming PvE'ers, solo'ers and trophy's with Proximity Detonation. Not sure if they actually think they're doing "small scale"?

Of course, they're looking for bigger numbers to farm and fight, but the large raids aren't there any more so RIP pugs.

Than of course all gankers waiting for you to engage multiple NPC's and run low on resource, so they can get a kill without having to do any actual fighting. I dont think that's small scale either lol.

But for sure, IC isn't completely dead yet. Still people that need to farm stuff.

LBxFinalDeath · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Who knew a tiny area flooded with an ungodly amount of zergs would after a while wane peoples want to be in that tiny area.

Forestd16b14_ESO · October 2015

Half and half. No it's not dieing cause that's the only place to get any ruby materials cause ZOS hates crafters with a burning pashion and yes it is cause most of the time one faction is just spawn camping another either right outside there door or there first area.

nimander99 · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

A lot of people are playing Wildstar f2p right now, my crafting guilds which usually have 100+ on at almost all times were at 15 people the last 2 nights. They'll be back

Smitch_59 · October 2015

Don't know, didn't buy it and have never been there.

UltimaJoe777 · October 2015

IC itself isn't dieing, just the hype. All new things go this way.

SleepyTroll · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Thank the nine cyrodill is popping again. I only go there to farm for a few hours when prime time dips.

MrGrimey · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Only the buff servers have an active IC pop, and they're only there to farm and level up... On the real pvp servers, sewers are a ghost town

MadHatterMike · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

mr_wazzabi wrote: »

I went into Azura's star yesterday on ps4 na side and the arena, which is the primary farming spot for tv stones, only had 4-5 people inside, as opposed to the usual 20. We wiped on the last boss as there simply wasn't enough to take her down.

I talked to my guild, which is a guild of 500 members and none of them were in imperial city. Many of them were done with it and just went on to play regular cyrodiil.

Does anyone else notice declining interest in this dlc's content?

I feel its declining, because of all the freaking gankers in the sewers, just farming others for their stones, sewers should be PVE only and top should be PVP

Thymos · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

Initial hype is going to go away, that was inevitable.

Plus, a lot of the people that play a lot probably already got what they were after gear-wise already.

reclaimervii.sierra117ub17_ESO · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

IC got boring. Too many gangkers, the story was cool but way too short. Overall the experience was fun for a while but the rewards and re play value is really stale. Hope they improve and learn from IC and make orsinium a better experience

BalticBlues · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Good riddance.

Worst DLC I bought this year.
Grind your gear and then get out of here.

i3ig_Gun · October 2015

Yes, it's dying

Too much grind for not enough reward imo

TV's are used for crafting materials and buying bags in hope to get the polymorph or a pet.

The gear sets are broken and have some really terrible 5 peice bonuses.

I can craft 9 traits to make my Armor Master set which blew the other peices out of the water.

Its the same old thing, log in, get to the sewers, find or form a group, grind.... grind... grind.... run into enemy alliance... kill them or die to them, back to base, deposit your TV, and repeat.

get bored of that? try going solo into the city to complete... what.... repeatable quests for what... more TV?

This DLC flopped IMO, the only good thing that came from it was The Armor Master set.

Evergnar · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

No, but I sure hope it does. Short but sweet is how I'd sum up the IC DLC. There just isn't much replay value there other than gear grind. It's too bad they didn't put some PvP objectives in IC that had some meaning.

Wolfshead · October 2015

No, there is still life in Imperial City

Yesterday it was very busy in IC on PC EU server so i would say No but i guess most PvE when the have done the so call PvE quest the will stop be in IC and honest i dont blame them for the hardly any PvE value after you have complete PvE and got to VR 16 there.

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