Server Population is GROWING!

I have notice a larger amount of people on my server as well, the Ebon Hawk.

What this game NEEDS is more marketing. You almost can't surf the internet without seeing a WoW ad. EA should being shoving ToR down our throats.

People un-subbing must get easilly bored.

I wonder if some people think its shrinking as people switch sides - ie from imps to pubs.

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Referencing data from http://www.torstatus.net/shards/us/stats, which compiles the output of the official server status page on an hourly basis:

If you sum up the change from last week to this week for all US servers, you get a drop of 8.18 units. This is equivalent to the four most heavily populated US servers not logging in at all, or a drop of 3.2% in US population logged in.

The results from the European servers are about the same. -7.11 units, approximately equivalent to the four most heavily populated servers not logging in, or a drop of 11.4% in European population logged in.


This is all of course a very rough approximation, since all the site can do is measure the percentage of time each server spends in each population state (population index: light = 1, standard = 2, heavy = 3, very heavy = 4, full = 5). This is also a time averaged measure of population and not necessarily indicative of the total number of people per server. It could be that there where actually more players, but they collectively spent less time logged in.

Two data points (last week vs this week) does not a trend make. If you are interested in the trend over time, it is available in graphs through the link.

We don't get easily bored we just don't enjoy bad games.

Over a million other players disagree.

/ignore

This is just an outright lie. I play on Ebon Hawk and the numbers have dropped significantly.

This week has been a school holiday in england, thus numbers should have been higher than normal - not the case. Where as you say Im clueless about population numbers, maybe - I've been saying its different on every server. But when you speak to people on MY server, you ask them how the servers doing, they will say people are quitting, their friends are quitting, people are moving to other servers. As a whole my population has declined alot.

"It in no way is evidence that the entire game population, let alone your own server population, is decreasing."

Haven't said the whole game population is dying, its just very noticeable on my server. I mean who's right? No one, can't be proved they are dropping or increasing as a whole, but certain servers are suffering. Log onto them, do the numbers every so often to see whos on / when, and you would have seen a decline in people.

Theres having school, work and real life, and then there's just a lack of people who want to play on that server.

Edit: I really don't care what other people have to say if I'm wrong or not - All I am saying is on my server, Uthar Wynn, population has decreased alot, activity has decreased alot. If you were on it from day 1. I don't want the game to fail, I want it to work because I like many others have put alot of time and money into the game.

The games good, needs work, but some servers need to be addressed.

At this game's rate you'll be saying 700,000 to 400,000 in no time