Console population sure seems like it is dying out.
What seems to be a real thing is the Dev crew trying to kill the population by not fixing things that hurt gamers but instead focus on the things that help the player out. Bug wise that is.
i.e. Group finder tool. For a short period of time we could get the bonus xp and drops from running randoms. At the same time the GF tool was broken by not loading us into a match-up or saying that we needed the DLC to play that dungeon.
What did they (dev) fix? well they fixed it so we cannot get the bonus xp/loot any more. Did they fix the other problems with GF? No they are still persistent today if not worse.

yeah dude I play playstation NA and it is empty like of course cyrodil going to be empty but pve wise does seem like it is a decent amount doing that

I havent played seriously in awhile. I tried to play the other day, but it was terrible. Lag, loading screens, skills not going off.. On top of that vMA weapons were nerfed in favor of CWC weps. I play solo and vMA weapons were a great way for me to stay competitive. I have no desire to farm CWC trials. Maybe I would if the other parts of the game were up to par, but they are not. Its obvious none of the profit from this game is actually going back into the game. Its becoming more casual and more buggy than ever all because of how profit driven it has become. These DLCs every 3 months is just a *** plan. They are constantly working on the next garbage to throw on the dumpster fire.

Something really has to be done about the performance and, PVP meta. It's become a game of tank zergs. It's by far the worst pvp has ever been. Wardens are ridiculous. Survivability is overtuned for certain archetypes and underperforming on others.


*** is just messed up, and with all the recent releases its hard to play a buggy, unbalanced, laggy game like ESO. It's only going to get worse from here and I honestly think zenimax won't be able to admit to their faults, and try to redeem this game.

mmolegends44 wrote: »

from what I heard I guess tommorow there is suppose to be a update to temporary fix the load screens on console pretty much like a bandaid it amazes me cause they really expect people to close app and ge back on like seriously lol I could only take 2 load screens then im done

It's not even so much a "fix" as just a rollback on something that was ironically supposed to improve performance.

There’s no way of finding population numbers and wouldn’t be a good business decision to reveal them for zos
PS4 eu is abysmal atm and empty I just hope zos has a plan to bring back players and crown store items aren’t going to do it.
Maybe intro new skills get rid of Bop larger events not repeating anniversary ones with the same stuff
In any case I’ve only logged in myself for the golden and even that was garbage

seedubsrun wrote: »

Xbox NA here. I just can't bring myself to really play anymore. I get on once a week or so to pay my guild dues if I remember. Seems like my guild leaders aren't even on anymore to kick me out when I forget to pay. If I can sit through the load screens, I can't PvE casually cause it's boring, can't group for dungeons because what's the point, don't have time to muddle through a raid to maybe get gear that might make my main a tiny bit better. bah. ESO and Destiny 2 both suck right now. Guess I chose poorly when it comes to the games I'd get into.

Pretty much this for me as well. Not really motivated to do much more than minor content or mindless running around. If one of my guilds is planning a trial I might make it if RL doesn't get in the way. All the constant changes and building back up again is getting old. Not just in ESO but, at least for me, many other games. Guild seem to be dying off, though the major ones seem to be absorbing those that choose to live. Just feels like the population is shrinking/consolidating and perhaps due to instancing it still looks populated. I try to stay engaged and positive but its definitely a challenge.

^ that's doesn't actually make sense.

Sure some left PC to go console, fine, but overall Pop is only up being in three platforms. Many I know don't even have a gaming PC, and I wouldn't go PC with all the cheating add on crap.

Back to OP. I think alot defines the 'feel' of population. And the more DLC that lands the less 'busy' capitals feel. Feel is a bad metric.

I have a muleo earn a few AP on to see where I'm at on the leaderboards time to time (gives you an idea of numbers to get top of table), and up untill recently overall numbers have been relativly stable.

So the answer is speculative. But people love sky is falling drama posts about the end being nigh.

People are always coming here and saying the game is dying, people are leaving, the servers are empty when in reality there's still a crap ton of people logging in, running around, and dueling in front of you every day.

Though if you say something enough times eventually it has to become true right?

Not sure what you're talking about. PS4 NA always had a lot of people on.

Rawkan wrote: »

Ignore the PvP'ers saying that the game is dead. PvE has a lot of players.

This

And since they fixed the load screens on ps4 today vivec was pop locked 70 person que and shor has 2 bars each at primetime.

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

Going consoles hurt the population as a whole, would've been better left on Pc tbh.

us console people are keeping this game going and keeping the servers running.
if this game was a pc exclusive it would've been considered a financial flop.