Console Population ..

Unfadingsilence · November 2017

FloppyTouch wrote: »

CWC hurt population a lot in pvp the long load screen and crashes made it so u just don’t want to log on. Other bugs are still around that they said was “fixed” like getting stuck in chairs in marrowind yep that still happens.

I love this game and it’s the only game I play on xb NA but these issues not going to name them all everyone knows what they are making very hard to play. Right now it’s log in do writs a few daily quest for motifs then leave. I can’t do the things I enjoyed the most and that’s pvp.

Same all I do now atm is my writs and maybe from time to time just farm mats pvp really is out of the question until they fix the load screens. I tried to pvp this last weekend and within an hour of game play I had to restart at least 20 times at the very least.

Unfadingsilence · November 2017

Last month in pvp I logged on to all 3 factions in the 30 day campaign just to see what the numbers looked lIke and on the last day of pvp DC had around 14k ppl log on and get on the leaderboards, EP had around 13k and AD around 12k, I know people play other toons and that goes into the count but the population on Xbox NA "for pvp" was really good this time around those numbers are cut in half if not worse with the load screen issues but the game is far from dead "at least on Xbox NA"

FloppyTouch · November 2017

Unfadingsilence wrote: »

Last month in pvp I logged on to all 3 factions in the 30 day campaign just to see what the numbers looked lIke and on the last day of pvp DC had around 14k ppl log on and get on the leaderboards, EP had around 13k and AD around 12k, I know people play other toons and that goes into the count but the population on Xbox NA "for pvp" was really good this time around those numbers are cut in half if not worse with the load screen issues but the game is far from dead "at least on Xbox NA"

You are right dead is a strong word for health of game so I guess better to say that it’s a noticeable decrease in activity. I’m just use to there being so many more ppl active in xb NA that it’s weird to look like the pc NA population.

Smaxx · November 2017

Cadbury wrote: »

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

Unfortunately it's not that easy on consoles thanks to Microsoft and Sony who don't allow any new versions of the game without proper "certification" (where they do stuff like checking that games use the correct button images, etc.). Some recent garbage game releases on PS4 might seem to tell a different story, but the reason console versions of ESO always release after PC is the fact that they submit their console builds once PC is finalized and then have to wait for that testing stuff…

Beardimus · November 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

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?

True that, people wanting to suffer from Cassandra syndrome.

MilwaukeeScott · November 2017

http://steamcharts.com/app/306130#All

https://eso-database.com/en/characters/statistics-ratios/

Population is up on all platforms.

Consoles now have more players than PC.

Beardimus · November 2017

Dup post

RebornV3x · November 2017

The Morrowind patch didn't help a lot of good and famous players left the game and the constant problems consoles have doesnt help now with Skyforge out on Xbox One and Black Desert on the way next year it won't get any better while the Clockwork city patch wasn't bad the problems keep players away

mmolegends44 · November 2017

@MilwaukeeScott lol that database is insane for console I mean it is cause they so called fix the load screens for now and everyone decided to log back in but it says NA server is 43% and EU server is 53% active on population interesting people always said and just like I thought EU server on console was mostly empty due to time zones

mmolegends44 · November 2017

tbh people not sure how long the game will last yeah alot of you or people in general like the game and addicted to it but the more updates that comes out the worse the game gets in my opinion they pushing the game towards PvE not a problem but I think maybe 85% of the game is PvP alot of people do PvE too but they will let PvP fall off before PvE I like them both game is just really unbalanced with lack of skills on their staff.

KingJ · November 2017

MilwaukeeScott wrote: »

http://steamcharts.com/app/306130#All

https://eso-database.com/en/characters/statistics-ratios/

Population is up on all platforms.

Consoles now have more players than PC.

I would say I'm pretty in the know about ESO stuff but I never heard of that site.

zaria · November 2017

Smaxx wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

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

Unfortunately it's not that easy on consoles thanks to Microsoft and Sony who don't allow any new versions of the game without proper "certification" (where they do stuff like checking that games use the correct button images, etc.). Some recent garbage game releases on PS4 might seem to tell a different story, but the reason console versions of ESO always release after PC is the fact that they submit their console builds once PC is finalized and then have to wait for that testing stuff…

More an issue that CWC adds significant changes to game, you can not roll back without handling this, people has gotten stuff not longer in loot list has assigned more CP than before and so on.
Yes you could technically do an hard roll back wiping everything since CWC release

Hurtfan · November 2017

PS4 NA, Vivec, all factions had 3 bars, great to see people come back after the "fix" errrrr rollback....

mb10 · November 2017

Well the night before the CWC update it was full and now its a ghost town.

Sorry its harsh but the devs are 100% responisble for releasing something without testing it properly. It will be difficult to bring old playerse back now especially at this time of year with so many games coming out and Christmas time.

Good luck anyway, but I myself have lost most my desire to play the game now. I hope it comes back eventually because I did love and invest into this game...

pod88kk · November 2017

Well there's still plenty of bots, I was reporting a group of them when I got a whisper saying leave..... I swiftly left

casinoguy · November 2017

Xbox NA seems to be just as busy as always. I bounced around to all the main hubs last night visiting guild traders and there was people all around. As far as PVP, there was even still a small queue to get into Vivec although the load screens in Cyrodiil are brutal and can test even the most patient person.

Caff32 · November 2017

For PvE, I wish they had something in between easy and extremely difficult content. If it's small group stuff, it's easy. DSA is the only real challenge and that's not really much of one.

At the other end of the spectrum are vAS hard mode, vMoL, and vHoF which all require 12 people who work hard together and practice for weeks or months and even then there are only a handful of groups, on Xbox at least, that can complete them. At least on Xbox, getting 12 GOOD people together who have the time or ambition to work to complete the content is even harder than the trials.

I think a lot of people were excited when it was announced that vAS would be a "mini-trial" because people took that to mean small group trials, much like vDSA. When it was just a 12 person trial without the adds, it took the wind out of a lot of people's sails.

In my opinion, I'd add more challenging 2-4 person content that doesn't require a full 12 person group. Logging in and banging your head against the wall for hours with 3-4 new people every time you go into Halls or Maw is not fun and ruining the enjoyment of the game for many many of the players I've talked to. I believe better smaller group content would go a long way to make this game more fun.

In PvP, lag, load screens, bad frame rates, etc. make it not a lot of fun, at least for me so until those technical aspects are actually fixed, I wouldn't recommend it.

Smmokkee · November 2017

Anybody that says xbox numbers are normal is fake news.

Guys want to act like there isnt a problem or anything. Staring straight ahead till the end.