145468-how-are-the-populations-holding-up-so-far

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			Been trying to keep up with it on my server. Entity 1's population seems pretty stable, there may be some more loss in the next few weeks but it still seems good. One of the things I'm always paranoid about is game population. How is it for everyone else? Has Carbine said anything about it yet?	
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People are still everywhere, at least on Entity Prime.
 
I *have* noticed a lot of toons that joined the guild have not logged back on in a month, though. And seeing as how most Freebots only have two character slots, I am left to believe either 70% of the new players have been playing one other character exclusively for over four weeks, or they simply have not come back.
 
While I am sure a few of them have been playing on toons, it's not tough for me to believe the majority of those people walked away and didn't look back.
 
Such is the nature of F2P, though. No monetary investment means the game has no intrinsic value and thus, people don't feel bad when they find something else to do. I expect the transient population of Wildstar to continue for the life of the game. We will never see the days of stable guild rosters again.
			
				
	Edited October 27, 2015 by Tex Arcana	
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Stable.
 
Population on Jabbit seems to have dropped off from what it was but that always happens in the first month. The game isn't a new shiny and people drop their play time or drift off. Still see plenty of lowbies though so it seems the intake at least balances out those that drift away. Either that or a lot of people are rolling alts.
 
I think this is a good as it's going to get with the population. 
 
It would probably have been a bit bigger but with lag and other issues Carbine are incredibly slow to get a handle on, it's ruined peoples experience and caused quite a lot of folk to leave.
 
As i've said before, it's a niche game, it's never going to have millions of players. 	
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Luminai 1 is booming, I don't think there's been much of a drop off. I see new names and players most days. I also see names and players of people who were playing most days not on anymore.
 
People are eager to move servers though, and would be happy to pay for server transfers. A lot of people feel they made the wrong choice.
 
In terms of dead server, no way. I've been on two dead servers on this game and both Jabbit and Lumi look nice and filled.	
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jabbit has never been a dead server f2p. obv if you started a new alt you dont see many players since most of the playerbase is 50.
Now you have players everywhere.	
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Stable.
 
Population on Jabbit seems to have dropped off from what it was but that always happens in the first month. The game isn't a new shiny and people drop their play time or drift off. Still see plenty of lowbies though so it seems the intake at least balances out those that drift away. Either that or a lot of people are rolling alts.
 
I think this is a good as it's going to get with the population. 
 
It would probably have been a bit bigger but with lag and other issues Carbine are incredibly slow to get a handle on, it's ruined peoples experience and caused quite a lot of folk to leave.
 
As i've said before, it's a niche game, it's never going to have millions of players. 
 
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It's sad, because I feel like if the lag issues, bot issues, and UI issues were fixed, this would be a far more popular game.
I'm wondering if Carbine is still running on a skeleton crew? I know a few months after the original launch they let people go because the game was failing. Did they ever re-hire people for the re-launch? If not, that might explain why they're so slow at fixing things right now.
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I'm wondering if Carbine is still running on a skeleton crew? I know a few months after the original launch they let people go because the game was failing. 
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Such is the nature of F2P, though. No monetary investment means the game has no intrinsic value and thus, people don't feel bad when they find something else to do. I expect the transient population of Wildstar to continue for the life of the game. We will never see the days of stable guild rosters again.
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Population on Entity-2 - Exile side looks healthy enough to me. Starter area's have calmed down a bit but there are still enough people running around to not look like its dead.  Im always bumping into other players whilst leveling my characters and its definitely not looking dead but I have noticed a drop off which is to be expected.
 
My only concern as others have mentioned is the on-going lag which is plaguing the servers. I experience it on Entity-2 and I have seen a few others mention it also in zone chat so im not the only one, some days it is great......hardly any lag but sometimes it is really bad and unplayable and on those times I find myself logging off.  
 
The problem being is that how many people log off and decide enough is enough and never log back into Wildstar mainly because they haven't had the chance for the game to grow on them because they cant play the thing. It's hard to get invested in a game that you cannot play and my concern is ive played a good few MMO's that were under NCsoft's umbrella and they are ruthless when it comes to chopping games that under perform.	
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Such is the nature of F2P, though. No monetary investment means the game has no intrinsic value and thus, people don't feel bad when they find something else to do. 
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