130404-is-the-population-really-this-low

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I wanted to get back into Wildstar. I logged in and did a systematic /who search around 5pm central time. The level ranges from 1-49 barely had enough to cover over 150 people...if that.
 
In Thayd; it was around 48-ish people near me at the main auctioneer site next to the crafting stations. Even doing a /who warrior didn't pop up 50 in the class. There were like only 5-12 level 50 warriors. The other classes were similar. Dominion side was worse; approximately 50-75% on exile side on the PVE server. Am I wrong in this?
 
I also did an Exile /who search by zone and it was never at least 50 in any of the zones I did.
 
I am not feeling encouraged to even try to get back into the game. Anyone have any statistics to show me differently?	
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			Well it's no surprise that the population is low, that's one of the reason they're doing this f2p transition. Honestly, if I had to guess, I would guess there's probably around 20,000 active wildstar players, but hopefully after the f2p transition we see a huge jump.	
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			5 PM CDT is still during a lot of people's work day, or even if they're on the East Coast..dinner time. Why not check after 7 EDT when it's more likely that people will be logged on?	
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I normally don't log on until 9ish EDT.
 
And let's think about this....5pm Central during the week?  The entire West Coast is still working and the East Coast is just getting home and settled.
 
 
If you want to play, then play.  Why try to look for validation from the forums?
			
				
	Edited August 25, 2015 by Shootsfoot	
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Did anyone mention that lots of folks are dedicating their game time to the Test Server?
 
I haven't played on Live in two months or more. When I play, I am beta testing. I expect there are lots of other old timers doing the same thing.	
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That's something I have to point out constantly to people who are trying to check the population. They always do it in the morning or at like 3-5pm EST on a weekday. That would be noon for most of my guildies, and anywhere in btwn for the rest. Between work, school starting back up, etc...but then they bring up "Well on WoW there's plenty of people at ALL times" but this game is not only still relatively new, it's still working its way back up from a rough start. We're all hoping F2P will help solve this over time. Even for myself, a stay at home mom, 5pm CST is 6pm for me, which means my daughter is still up and energetic, my husband is getting home, dinner needs to be made, etc. I know it's the same for a lot of people, too.
 
Also, it helps to mention what server you're on.
Edit: Also, what Tex said. A lot of people are out on the Beta recently.
			
				
	Edited August 25, 2015 by Kavi	
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I wanted to get back into Wildstar. I logged in and did a systematic /who search around 5pm central time. The level ranges from 1-49 barely had enough to cover over 150 people...if that.
 
In Thayd; it was around 48-ish people near me at the main auctioneer site next to the crafting stations. Even doing a /who warrior didn't pop up 50 in the class. There were like only 5-12 level 50 warriors. The other classes were similar. Dominion side was worse; approximately 50-75% on exile side on the PVE server. Am I wrong in this?
 
I also did an Exile /who search by zone and it was never at least 50 in any of the zones I did.
 
I am not feeling encouraged to even try to get back into the game. Anyone have any statistics to show me differently?
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Yeah I don't know many people who log on during the day. Wildstar doesn't have the numbers for an "all day" population right now so it's mostly concentrated at prime time.
 
When f2p finally hits there will certainly be an uptick. In the meantime I think you should power through 1-49 as fast as possible because most people who are on during the day (and in general) are level 50.	
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			I am an early player who left in disgust and then came back recently to see if things had gotten better, and the game feels like an utter ghost town even in prime time. I am waiting for the F2P and Drop Six to happen to see what happens to the game before deciding to commit any more. I really want to like this game, so much potential, but it just isn't keeping my attention at all, and I wish I could say why. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this stuff.	
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Just restarted my sub again, because last night I had a dream I was playing Wildstar. That is some crazy advertising you got there, Carbine!
 
Anyways, since I didn't want to make a new thread asking about Pop, I figured this one was as good as any to ask... I've gone through a few Threads and I've read Exiles is massively outnumbering Dominion... True?
 
Thanks!	
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			I have toons on both sides and while the exiles are more active, they don't massive out number doms by any means. Pick the side you like and find a good guild and you'll do fine. Or be like me and play both	
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			Yeah a lot of the active player base is on the PTR right now.	
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Just wanted to add, that i have seen a lot of returning players these last 2½ months, however i also see quite a number of players, not having a lot of patience to stick with it, for more than a week or 2.
 
The game is struggling, because the human mind wants a quick fix, but the game is intended for hardcore patience.
 
Just my2cents.	
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			Alot of players are n hiatus until F2P. Im now playing rather casually myself, the biggest problem is the F2P launch has pushed back the quarterly update. We not had a real update since May, thats a long time to be playing the game without any new features or major changes. Naturally alot of people got bored and left until the next patch with happens on many games.	
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Alot of players are n hiatus until F2P.
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Pretty much this. Not much point in grinding dungeons/raids or pvp, especially at endgame with the hard gear/ rune reset coming with f2p.
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			Yes, and it deserves to be.	
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			I recently spent roughly 30plat in a matter of a couple days just reruning some of my gear....(mostly to fit a good bit of exceptionals in to get the most out of my sets and yes it's DS gear).  Was it pointless with the changes coming?  Maybe, but since we have no idea when f2p will drop I said to heck with it and did it anyway.  I don't even want to think of the total plat I have spent even reruning my gear lol.  Point is that some people are still actively doing it regardless of the changes (me included).  Heck, we got nothing else to do (besides doing dailies or being a completionist), so why not? :)
			
				
	Edited August 31, 2015 by Bacon_21	
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			In entity the population is descent, enough for doing guardians of the grove or light spire for contracts that's all i care about :)	
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			Just wanna chime in on the whole "hiatus" train - basically waiting for F2P and not feeling any urge to play before that, mainly due to activity in general being so low (which is due to others being on hiatus :P)	
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I must be playing in some alternate dimension, because I haven't really noticed a slow down. All the people I normally see are around, and the guild's gotten tons of new folk too. Roleplay community hasn't really been affected at all. My husband and I don't really have to wait in queues either, so I dunno. Weird.
 
Well, we're still playing. xD	
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			today i asked if something happened because in EU server pvp only starts after dinner and only for a few hours, while 2 weeks ago the situation was better and you could easily get called after lunch too (even if not that much)Someone replied it's because of school beginning this month and it could be the real problem but i'm really waiting for free to play because a game where you must wait 21:00 to play in group pvp is not an mmo. maybe an online rpg but not an mmo
			
				
	Edited September 2, 2015 by Vespero	
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School started.
Beta testing.
People like myself took a break from live waiting for the F2P launch.
 
Talk to me around the first week of October and let's see what's going on. That will be a better time to analyze.	
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School started.
Beta testing.
People like myself took a break from live waiting for the F2P launch.
 
Talk to me around the first week of October and let's see what's going on. That will be a better time to analyze.
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Yeah I don't know many people who log on during the day. Wildstar doesn't have the numbers for an "all day" population right now so it's mostly concentrated at prime time.
 
When f2p finally hits there will certainly be an uptick. In the meantime I think you should power through 1-49 as fast as possible because most people who are on during the day (and in general) are level 50.
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			if you are a subscriber just download the ptr server client and log in like your normal account	
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