Oh god I definitely couldn’t handle staring at my spell book again. I remember I had a buddy watch over me at like orc hill and stuff while I did that just because you couldn’t even see yourself getting jumped haha.
Yikes. On Dec 20th my OG server (Moriai) merged into Scheria (US East). After the merge the concurrent peak users (around 9 or 10pm EST) was between ~800-900 players. It’s been just a little over a month and the concurrent players (at this moment) is ~200. I assume this number will go up a bit throughout the evening, but this explains why the server has felt so empty recently, and only one faction now controls the majority of the map.
I had characters on the server Povar. I was in an international, mainly US guild. I realy had short nights and the raids were long. But it was a real good experience.
I was on the 3rd most popular us west server. Even though its west it usually had about 1200 players on by now and about 1600ish at prime time west coast. It currently has 200 people on.
Im honestly surprised they turned the server pop api back on.
Overall peak players were down about 20,000 from last Tuesday. I suspect over the weekend hoping for 40k players is probably too much. I’d guess it’s going to be about 30k peak on Saturday (about a 50% week over week decline). Of those 30k, a lot will be bots.
In a game with a player driven economy it’s pretty irritating that something sells for a high price fast on a larger server while you can’t even get rid of it on you 200 person server. Something needs to change
Alot of the older mmos allowed you to do everything on one character… thats not an issue. Honsetly they need to let people make alts on the same server just faction lock an account.
They probably intended to sell character slots on the store at a later date. Which is fine. They need to make money somewhere. I just hate they use the excuse about being able to be on multiple factions because as you said, they could lock the account. Its also easily bypassed by paying 25 bucks for another copy of the game.