Player base: rising or falling

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Posted by: vengeance.3509

vengeance.3509

I just wanted to ask about the player base, I am seeing a lot of low population servers and I am wondering if it’s starting to fall now.

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Posted by: Zackie.8923

Zackie.8923

failing then rose with sales and xpac

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Posted by: Yargesh.4965

Yargesh.4965

unknowable since no one besides ANET has access to data. If you are worried just starting the game that there are not enough players around you, don’t be. You down-level so the early zones can be more popular than mid and late, but you still see people in the least likely areas.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

The server populations are tied to the accounts that are based on that server, not to the number of people playing. Since accounts rarely if ever are deleted, that means servers can only drop to low population by 2 ways. 1) the accounts transfer out to another server. 2) ANet increases the server cap. This makes servers that were full drop down to very high and servers that were high drop down to low without any change in the number of people playing.

ANet periodically increases the server caps to accommodate increased numbers of people buying accounts, which means the high population servers will say they are now low population.

By the way I just checked. None of the servers said low population. All are high to full.

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: vengeance.3509

vengeance.3509

unknowable since no one besides ANET has access to data. If you are worried just starting the game that there are not enough players around you, don’t be. You down-level so the early zones can be more popular than mid and late, but you still see people in the least likely areas.

Down-level?

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Posted by: PaxTheGreatOne.9472

PaxTheGreatOne.9472

unknowable since no one besides ANET has access to data. If you are worried just starting the game that there are not enough players around you, don’t be. You down-level so the early zones can be more popular than mid and late, but you still see people in the least likely areas.

Down-level?

Downscaled… I’m not going there with puns.

23 lvl 80’s, 9 times map, 4ele, 4ncr, 3war, 3grd, 3rgr, 2thf, 2msm, 1eng, 1 rev.
Been There, Done That & Will do it again…except maybe world completion.

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Posted by: Yargesh.4965

Yargesh.4965

unknowable since no one besides ANET has access to data. If you are worried just starting the game that there are not enough players around you, don’t be. You down-level so the early zones can be more popular than mid and late, but you still see people in the least likely areas.

Down-level?

top level 80 players (or any time you are a higher level than the zone you enter) when they go to a lower level have their max stats lowered to that level. Still 1 or 2 shot mobs in level 1 areas but you are not hugely overpowered so can help and get exp for helping other players as they level up.

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Posted by: Zephyra.4709

Zephyra.4709

I see players. Players everywhere.

Might be your time zone when you log in it could seem like less as that’s happened to me before logging in at different times of the day.

But in general; mega servers made maps A LOT more ‘filled’ with players.. Especially at world boss events.