How alive is this game currently?

[dalorend]

Hi. I have a question guys. How alive would you consider the game is currenty? To me, the point of this games are the PVP aspect and it would be a shame for me to get into this game once again to realice that I am playing alone trough the whole game. When I played the game a few years ago I was totally lost because I had no time to sattle down but I´d like to come back and have a nice experience. What do you guys think. Is it worth it?
Thank you for your time!

[Nameless]

It is alive and very pug friendly. Unfortunately the reasons to group up are less and less. At orvr you do zerg surfing for max gain or join pug wbs. At scens currently it is faster and prolly more lucrative to go solo. Only real grouping you do at pve but there is mostly pug dungeons groups since pve is not so hard to require dedicated group to beat one.

So there is hardly any communities beside pug 500+ members zerg guilds, no need for real grouping, none seek ppl for anything beside some pve

[dalorend]

It is alive and very pug friendly. Unfortunately the reasons to group up are less and less. At orvr you do zerg surfing for max gain or join pug wbs. At scens currently it is faster and prolly more lucrative to go solo. Only real grouping you do at pve but there is mostly pug dungeons groups since pve is not so hard to require dedicated group to beat one.

So there is hardly any communities beside pug 500+ members zerg guilds, no need for real grouping, none seek ppl for anything beside some pve

But I´ve seen videos of sieges and groups (big groups) of players killing each other. Isn´t it that an often situation? If you queue for a pvp match you wont find players?

[borc1]

i dont know maybe look at online numbers then dedicate an evening or two and play the ing game yourself

[Shogun4138]

Population is ok.

The hard part is the shifts from one side to another. Saturday night NA time we had a 12 man of destro vs. 3 wbs of order. It appeared one order warband came over but we have a new policy, If they blob, we log.

It is not always the case as you have some guilds that play both sides so sides shift. There are some that log to the winning side but they are worthless players anyways so that doesn't matter (they couldn't make a difference so they ran to the winning side}

Some guilds manipulate the aao by hiding in pve and come out for a few while the get the aao bonus. Good tactic and Devs cant stop it.

In General the population shifts sides and overall player base is still good.

[dalorend]

Population is ok.

The hard part is the shifts from one side to another. Saturday night NA time we had a 12 man of destro vs. 3 wbs of order. It appeared one order warband came over but we have a new policy, If they blob, we log.

It is not always the case as you have some guilds that play both sides so sides shift. There are some that log to the winning side but they are worthless players anyways so that doesn't matter (they couldn't make a difference so they ran to the winning side}

Some guilds manipulate the aao by hiding in pve and come out for a few while the get the aao bonus. Good tactic and Devs cant stop it.

In General the population shifts sides and overall player base is still good.

So I assume there is not structural issues with population lack to do any kind of content? Besides the inbalance you just mentioned

[DevanShell]

Speaking for the EU time zone, you’ll have no problems finding parties or warbands for RvR or SCs at any time of day. LFG for dungeons is fairly active as well.

As usual, the population starts to rise in the afternoon.