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First time in 3+ years I have seen a login queue was two nights ago, so I would say its a lot busier than you think, people may just have abandoned random dungeons to farm ridiculously overpriced murkmire plans.

what would you rather do? Farm green plans at 60k blue at 150k and purp at 800k+ or run a dungeon.

More active in general, probably due to the event. I see more players around and my guild sales are up compared to the long term trend. However there are less players in PvP since it's not part of the event. One day I saw 2 bars in Vivec on all 3 factions at prime time. The group finder tool may actually malfunction due to the number of queued players being too high. I had a >15 minutes queue as tank at 10 pm but found a spot almost instantly at 1 am.

RainfeatherUK wrote: »

Solo/anti-social people are still abundant (so my option choice just represents my prefered demographic/group players). Get told to 'f*** off this isnt a multiplayer game* quite a few times just for asking someone if they want to group lmao.

Groups and PvP/MMO style things are way down these days. Which isn't surprising. New mechanics are iffy at best, if at all and they stopped targeting us some time ago anyway. Cyrodiil is broken and forgotten. The list goes on.

You simply don't notice the presence of solo people. They are there, they just exist in their own little world. Probably why.

What situations are you asking to group? Dungeons, Trials, and Cyrodiil are valid instances. However people may not like it if theyre just wandering through the PvE overland doing their own thing.

People always speculate on this stuff based on completely biased personal anecdotes. While we don't have many sources of actual quantitative data, we do have one consistent source that may serve as a representative sample of player activity trends: the Steam player charts.

Here's what we can ascertain from the Steam data. In terms of average concurrent player count over a 30 day period, the highest number in ESO history was in June 2018 this year. The current 30 day concurrent player count average is higher than ANY month prior to June 2018. Average concurrent player count is a good metric for looking at trends in how many people are actively playing the game.

We do have to make an assumption that the Steam players represent trends in the playerbase at large. However, given that assumption we can see that there are more players actively and consistently playing now than at any point in the game's history.

RABIDxWOLVERINE wrote: »

I think random queues are taking longer due to the event. Most people running the dungeon plunder skull from my experience are grouping within guilds so that might be what has cause the timer to increase.

Probably more people doing dungeons who don't do them regularly so they do it as DD. this increases queues.
Tank queues are short but it looks like finder has some issues because to many groups.

These are just related to Steam players (surely a tiny minority of ESO's global population, considered that the vast majority of PC and Mac players don't play it through Steam, and you need to add PS4 and Xbox population on top of that)

https://steamcharts.com/app/306130

If you look at the month by month numbers, from the release, of average simultaneously connected users, I would say (despite what is said on this forum), ESO population is in very good health, and possibly still growing on the mid / long term (try to plot a trend line graph in Excel with the monthly numbers and you will see it by yourself)