So, I counted the servers earlier and there are (if I counted right) 49 US-West servers and 158 US-East servers. All of the west coast servers had at least 400 players, but there were a few east coast servers that had less than 100 players. One of them was as low as 60 players.
This needs to be addressed. Why are there so many east coast servers when there aren’t enough players? They need to be consolidated.
From what I’ve read, some servers see regular queues with lots of people, but then we have servers with under 100 people on them. My low pop server sees more people leave per day than join. I’m sure it’s the same on other servers as well. People aren’t going to join a ghost town. They are going to go where there are people to play with.
Again, 49 servers US-West, 158 US-East. There isn’t that huge of a difference in number of players currently online. Roughly 4300 players. Servers hold 2000 players. But east coast has 3x the number of servers.
I’m in the Midwest US. At launch, the East Coast servers were completely packed with massive queues. The West Coast servers were pretty open except for the two “streamer” servers, so I rolled a char over there. After they started opening up new servers, I eventually created a char on one of those new US East servers. Unfortunately, that server is now one of those 200 person low pop servers where it’s dead except for continuous toxic chat about how dead the game is, “I don’t recall asking you”, and lots of calling people son / kid.
Sure, the new servers were needed at launch for the flood of players so they could “just create a char on any server and start playing.” Their solution of free transfers to any other server after the launch population spike settled down sounded great, but they won’t allow transfer between regions at the moment.
I’ve resorted to rolling alts on other servers just to check the population / environment out. Still hoping to find that unicorn server that’s well-balanced and not full of a bunch of bitter, salty, toxic effers.
Man, I am getting cranky in my old age. I started off playing MUDs in the early 1990’s when the Internet was still dial-up modems, BBSs, text-based archie/gopher, and IRC. Launched into “real” MMOs with WOW right at the end of Vanilla and since then, I’ve played Everquest II, Rift, TERA, Wildstar (RIP), FFXIV, Elder Scrolls Online, and a handful of other MMOs. I love the crafting and gathering aspects of New World. I just want to pick my plants and craft my armour in peace without the need to bleach my eyes or leave general chat.
