Does this game have a playerbase?

[ryan]

I saw it only had 1,000 concurrent players on Steam. Is that the only way to get the game, and therefore it just has a small group of people playing?

[Tifached_sTd]

Currently, there’s usually around 1000 players on at any given time according to steamdb. The player base is pretty dedicated though. Also, being that it’s one world, it’s not really an issue and every city I’ve ever been too has a lot of people. More people will come with future updates like TC, when there becomes meaning behind group fights.

[ryan]

Originally posted by Tifached_sTd:

Currently, there’s usually around 1000 players on at any given time according to steamdb. The player base is pretty dedicated though. Also, being that it’s one world, it’s not really an issue and every city I’ve ever been too has a lot of people. More people will come with future updates like TC, when there becomes meaning behind group fights.

I appreciate the response but I just found out there is no NA servers. My friends and I were really interested in the game.

[MadConsular]

yeah sadly if ur NA player got to just play like a mage or archer, would highly recommended mounted archer for anyone, clearly the best combat role, can solo bosses, etc

[ZDuB]

Originally posted by ryantactics:

Originally posted by Tifached_sTd:

Currently, there’s usually around 1000 players on at any given time according to steamdb. The player base is pretty dedicated though. Also, being that it’s one world, it’s not really an issue and every city I’ve ever been too has a lot of people. More people will come with future updates like TC, when there becomes meaning behind group fights.

I appreciate the response but I just found out there is no NA servers. My friends and I were really interested in the game.

theres a lot of NA players and the server uses ping equalizer

[Jiro]

It's really up too you, the small player base works for the game because they only have one server. So if you want to just roam around with your bros cool, but sinking in time without having a group of like 15 people is going to be a bad time. You either play solo and do random stuff as a merc, or you join a big crew. Small groups get eaten.

[Fatbill]

Keep in mind, any concurrent player numbers include logged in alts.

If you see 800 players online, 250-300 are likely alts.
"Fans" of this game leave their alts logged in, in their houses, to make the player numbers appear better than they are. Several of the guilds instructed their members to do this.

[Tifached_sTd]

Originally posted by ryantactics:

Originally posted by Tifached_sTd:

Currently, there’s usually around 1000 players on at any given time according to steamdb. The player base is pretty dedicated though. Also, being that it’s one world, it’s not really an issue and every city I’ve ever been too has a lot of people. More people will come with future updates like TC, when there becomes meaning behind group fights.

I appreciate the response but I just found out there is no NA servers. My friends and I were really interested in the game.

I live in Oklahoma and I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve had ping issues, and I’ll hit 800 hours this month. The game is truly unique, and for me, scratches an itch that none other have been able to. Even when the game had dipped down into 4-500 players, it never felt empty to me. Perks of being one world. I strongly suggest to check it out.

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by Fatbill:

Keep in mind, any concurrent player numbers include logged in alts.

If you see 800 players online, 250-300 are likely alts.
"Fans" of this game leave their alts logged in, in their houses, to make the player numbers appear better than they are. Several of the guilds instructed their members to do this.

I think people play alts a lot. I don't know if they do it to pump up the numbers though. That seems a little conspiracy theorist to me.

[ryan]

I appreciate the info. Call me crazy but not having NA servers is unheard of for me personally.

[Fatbill]

Originally posted by Excelsior:

Originally posted by Fatbill:

Keep in mind, any concurrent player numbers include logged in alts.

If you see 800 players online, 250-300 are likely alts.
"Fans" of this game leave their alts logged in, in their houses, to make the player numbers appear better than they are. Several of the guilds instructed their members to do this.

I think people play alts a lot. I don't know if they do it to pump up the numbers though. That seems a little conspiracy theorist to me.

Not really.
It is very difficult for a (not very well made) dead or dying game to get new players.
New players ARE content for this game, as it is a ganking/griefing game more than straight up PvP.
By "artificially" boosting the game population numbers, it makes the game seem less dead.
More people are likely to buy it then.
Thus more noob players for the guilds to target.
Ask around, and if people are honest, they will tell you that a number of guilds encouraged their members to stay logged in all the time, including their alts, when they are not playing.

Not a conspiracy, simple cause and effect.

[ferncamper]

Intresting discussion/question. But more intresting would be the question , how many players with an actual account has this game ? And will it die in the near future because it dont have enough income to pay the servers and the emplyers. Because of the cowardy of the companies you will never know how many actual payed accounts are existing. And thats one reason to not play such niche games. They die and than your time you invest ist wasted.

And the already mentioned "alt-problem" is also anoying. The world is not too big and roughly 1000 players at the same time online would make the world looking crowded but it do not due to the already described fact that a lot players have their alt online , so that the game appears to be crowded.

But if you follwed the game from the beginning you would know that it starts dieing directly after the release with a number of players leaving from about 1000 monthly from over 20k after release until now with a max of about 1000 online at the same time.

Also please do not forget that there are more than only one server so that this number of players , depending of the daytime and time zone are surely not all on the same server.

So its roughly about 500 or even less , if there are more than only NA and EU (which i guess the publisher can not effort), per server. Even with Alts and there we reach the impression of a graveyard if there are only 250 ppl online, because, most of them have their houses and are not in the cities.

But this can also mean you can maybe play it like an offline game ;-)... but I guess you will always meet at least a few players per session...

[ZDuB]

Originally posted by ferncamper:

Because of the cowardy of the companies you will never know how many actual payed accounts are existing.

we knew back in Feb they sold 110,000 copies

[The Commendatore]

Of those ~1500 players a decent chunk are the same people with an alternate account, or several.

[1984]

Originally posted by ZDuB:

Originally posted by ferncamper:

Because of the cowardy of the companies you will never know how many actual payed accounts are existing.

we knew back in Feb they sold 110,000 copies

not 100% sure I trust that information

Originally posted by Tifached_sTd:

Currently, there’s usually around 1000 players on at any given time according to steamdb. The player base is pretty dedicated though. Also, being that it’s one world, it’s not really an issue and every city I’ve ever been too has a lot of people. More people will come with future updates like TC, when there becomes meaning behind group fights.

like this person says. There are enough people

Originally posted by ryantactics:

I saw it only had 1,000 concurrent players on Steam. Is that the only way to get the game, and therefore it just has a small group of people playing?

You can pretty much imagine yourselves as a small community. You do not really need 1000000s of people playing if you will have enough people to play with anyway.

In most games you only need 20 people per server to enjoy the game. Here you have 1000. More than enough.

A small little persistent unique magical world with real people and real reputation among players.

[ZDuB]

Originally posted by ♥ZER0♥ %K♥:

Originally posted by ZDuB:

we knew back in Feb they sold 110,000 copies

not 100% sure I trust that information

there were multiple gaming websites that wrote articles about it, so go ahead and wear your tinfoil hat if you want