back few a year ago in Craglorn you go to zone chat and just say DOING VDSA or VHELRA and you get people , few nights ago ive seen a tank asking for a trial group or VDSA for over 1.30 hr with no luck..


You know things are bad when TANKS can't find a group......

Can never tell the difference. If i log on into Rawlkha and immediately see someone murdering an NPC and someone else standing on that rock, then its still populated.

I can only judge from my own experience and perspective, of course... and from that PoV, it depends on what metric you use to judge... if you look at the activities in (trading) cities and zones... it seems as if everything is normal, as same as it has been. I use to stay in Reaper's March and Velyn Harbor and there's always people there, all the time.

But if you judge from the quantity and quality of activities, to me it seems it's decreasing... I don't see people calling for activities (going from what happens on my guild chats and the chat from the zones I visit, at least.)

To me it seems that the quantity of people that is here for the MMO side of things is decreasing, but it might be very well that the quantity of people that plays the game casually and just quests and stuff is the same or is increasing, IDK.

In my own case, the end-game activities in all my guilds is at the lowest level that it has ever been... no one asks for anything, no one organizes anything, etc.

I used to have several trials scheduled per week and had to manage my schedule to be able to participate... but that was one and a half years ago... now, there's zero trial activity in all guilds except one, where they do one trial per week.

Perhaps, it might be that the new content that was added is too difficult for the level of guilds I belong so the people is able to do that kind of content doesn't call in them, and at the same time the rest of the people is tired of doing the same old content as always... I'm just extrapolating ofc.

But the sure marker is that the non-trade guilds on which I am, have decreased in number of online players since some time ago... used to be around 20 to 30 players online all days, now it's lucky if there are 10 at the peak of the day.

PC EU. I often make new characters - I'm trying to create a truly "racial" look. So, I often appear on Summerset starting place and often go to Whailing Prison.
What I see in Summerset: new players keep coming. It is easy to tell that they are totally new to the came. While I was examining my newly done Reachmen witch, trying hairstyles and tattooes, I noticed about a dozen of newcomers to pop out near me.
Whailing Prison is a mystery to me - a lot of people have this location as a starting zone. Quite a lot of. Where do they get the version of the game that old??

I'm on PC EU and play almost exclusively open-world PvE and the game seems about the same to me, with some things busier than normal because of the Halloween event.

I've been doing a world boss once a day on my crafter for event tickets (and by extension dremora skulls) and I had to move him to a remote boss in Summerset to get them. Because he's a crafter he's only level 34 and has very few combat skills and is pretty much always going to be the lowest DPS there so I need a boss which reliably has less than 12 people doing it and I kept finding too many people showed up at the others, until I found one way out on the edge of nowhere. Even then when I log in there's usually another person waiting for it to spawn and at least 4-5 people will show up before anyone starts, without any prompting in zone chat.

When I've been on other characters in other areas of the game I see about as many people as normal. Of course I haven't been counting but I've never found myself alone in an area.

It might be that fewer people are queuing for random dungeons at the moment. We've got a special event going on which is encouraging people to do a wide variety of content, a new story DLC was just released and there were major balance changes which might have made some people reluctant to keep running random dungeons with PUGs until they've got their build sorted out and are familiar with it again. Or maybe more people are queuing as healers now.

Tasear wrote: »

Healer queue is part of the fake healer promblem..... :'(

But nah I never feel alone in ESO. Although some zones could use some love. Like hewsbane could use theif leaderboard or brothhod.

Yes more fake healers,, also more people who realize that you you just need to back bar an restro staff and add some healing skills to be an efficient healer in most dungeons, done this a lot myself.

I got an login queue popup today in the middle of day pc-eu, only seen that a couple of times like start of events or new releases.

albesca wrote: »

ForsakenSin wrote: »

back few a year ago in Craglorn you go to zone chat and just say DOING VDSA or VHELRA and you get people , few nights ago ive seen a tank asking for a trial group or VDSA for over 1.30 hr with no luck..

You know things are bad when TANKS are can't find a group......

I don't know about veteran content, but yesterday I asked for a normal DSA run in Craglorn's zone chat and we built a group and started the arena in five minutes.

nDSA is popular because of the event.
Plenty of pugs for the vet craglorn trials, above that pugging is not very realistic.

Talking from a Pvp perspective, I have never seen cyro so empty since 1t (never played Pvp before). At 9pm Berlin time on EU vivec is not fully locked for all factions (yet not decline in lag lol), bg queues are infinite and super buggy just as when morrowind dropped, and the dueling spot is empty. Not a surprise, but still sad to see

It feels lower than usual BUT you need to remember the game is much more spread out now than it was before. So many more zones, dungeons, things to do, etc...

So, its quite possible the game could be more active than ever, just much more spread out.

On console, it feels like it’s dying slowly

I got booted from the server last night - not a bad connection or disconnected for inactivity, but affirmatively booted.

I think the platform and region matter a lot in this poll. PC NA feels really active.

The AD and DC Cyrodil Zerg Train is still chugging along quite well......

Tasear wrote: »

Healer queue is part of the fake healer promblem..... :'(

But nah I never feel alone in ESO. Although some zones could use some love. Like hewsbane could use theif leaderboard or brothhod.

After the single role selection in Summerset the queue times for healer went up for me. Previously it was 30s - 3 minutes. They went up to nearly 15 min in some cases. Right now they seem to hover somewhere around 3-5 minutes. For a magicka character it's easy to transition to a healer. While I dont condone fake roles, they're not always hard to fake.

The queue times over all seem to have jumped up a little after that update, so I doubt that the queue times are indicative of the number of players playing as much as they are about the roles they're choosing.