ESO is easily the most populated MMO in 2024

[Kaathe]

I've tried many of the so called most popular MMOs recently, including guild wars 2, new world and final fantasy 14, and to my surprise ESO always has players in all maps.

It's likely due to the horizontal nature of ESO in its progression.

Most surprisingly for me is FF14 which is dead everywhere. I made a new character on the free trial oceanic servers and have played for 4 hours now without seeing another single real player in the world which is disappointing

[PinkFluffyGoat]

that's why every zone is a ghost time? >_> no content creators around anymore? <-< all cyrodil maps are basically empy? >_> dungeon que wait time for even my healer? <____<

[Kaathe]

Originally posted by PinkFluffyGoat:

that's why every zone is a ghost time? >_> no content creators around anymore? <-< all cyrodil maps are basically empy? >_> dungeon que wait time for even my healer? <____<

Every time I play I see real players everywhere on the US server

[PinkFluffyGoat]

eso is kinda following the same trend runescape 3 has. its jus dailies and log out for a lot of ppl. the devs have tried to hard to make the game to be accessible as possible and its ruined it for a lot of ppl. dont get me wrong tho, accessiblity isnt a bad thing. but when its chainging the core mechs of the game then it is bad. plus previous chapters have had horrid update balance aswell. its a long list

[Lokee63]

Right now there are 6k viewers in 14. Viewers in ESO is 1.3K on Twitch.

Online at the moment 14 - 963k
ESO 223k

You may have made a character on one of the new servers.

Anyway OP. You will be best off playing ESO. Just take it as a feeling I have, hmm a strong feeling xD

[PinkFluffyGoat]

there are 2 mega servers, you cant make a character on a different server lol, morrowwind, the oakensoul. the combat rework. there are many many that turned players off over the years

[Darl]

it is still lively.. I play pvp for 10yrs.. every weekend there is a long queue in GH - NA PC

[Halcyform]

Sounds like you haven't played FF very long.

Most people are in story content instances, raid instances, roulettes, in town, in residence zones (having parties and whatnot) or hopping back and forth between servers.

All cities are packed at all hours of the day.

Most larger zones do feel dead, however, but that is largely due to how FF works with instances. If you know where to look, you'll find plenty of people in specific zones working on tradeskills and other stuff.

[Etraux]

Originally posted by Guardian Kaathe:

I've tried many of the so called most popular MMOs recently, including guild wars 2, new world and final fantasy 14, and to my surprise ESO always has players in all maps.

It's likely due to the horizontal nature of ESO in its progression.

Most surprisingly for me is FF14 which is dead everywhere. I made a new character on the free trial oceanic servers and have played for 4 hours now without seeing another single real player in the world which is disappointing

Well, Oceanic servers are dead for pretty much every game, from FPS to MMOs. Most of the players gravitate towards US or Asian servers.

So, it's not "horizontal nature". It's megaservers. pooling all players together

[Elendir Blue]

Originally posted by PinkFluffyGoat:

there are 2 mega servers, you cant make a character on a different server lol, morrowwind, the oakensoul. the combat rework. there are many many that turned players off over the years

You can lie as much as you want, but it not make your messages true.
Hell, I am leveling psijic skill line for my secondary characters now and I am meeting other players around all time breaches with light around their head.
It is one on the boring side of activities, yet you can meet many players to do it. What about fun activities then?

[Ghoul Hunter]

I feel like there's a tiny minority of "hardcore" mmo players, that have developed a hatred for this game. In terms of numbers and general fun, this game is just fine. All the wailing of the <100 hardcore gamers who are upset about some mechanical change is louder than the quiet and content thousands just playing the game casually and having a good time.

Funny how the internet works, eh? Everyone has a voice, but actions speak louder than words.

[Lokee63]

Originally posted by Guardian Kaathe:

Originally posted by Lokee63:

Right now there are 6k viewers in 14. Viewers in ESO is 1.3K on Twitch.

Online at the moment 14 - 963k
ESO 223k

You may have made a character on one of the new servers.

Anyway OP. You will be best off playing ESO. Just take it as a feeling I have, hmm a strong feeling xD

Where are you seeing ESO player counts

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. I will not post any links, because I know where it all will end.

I am not saying my numbers are 100% correct, which I of cause should have mentioned.

Games that are popular on twitch is usually popular if the number is consistent. Its not entirely accurate but there's a correlation.

Now FFXIV have 10.4k viewers .
ESO have 961 viewers.

Those are the numbers I got at the time I wrote this. You will see numbers going up and down.

Normal FFxiv is around 6-7k. ESO round 1k-1.6k viewers.

We know WoW is very popular, which also reflects the over all viewer count on Twich.

Sorry about the confusion.

[Commancho]

MMO is a dead genre.

[Percello]

Most populated? Nah, but definitely one of the top 5.

[ringod123]

Originally posted by Darl:

it is still lively.. I play pvp for 10yrs.. every weekend there is a long queue in GH - NA PC

LOL - there is a long queue because they have nerfed the pop caps for each faction in Cyrodiil. What used to be able to hold 300 ppl per faction now only holds 60 people per faction, which is the EXACT reason there is any kind of queue at all for Cyrodiil, if the pop caps were still the original size there wouldnt be a queue.
Literally holds 20% of its original capacity, which is why when you get through the queue, you enter into a largely dead map where almost nothing is happening compared to what Cyrodiil used to look like with only 1 bar per faction just 5-6 years ago. Game mode was abandoned by a decimated dev team who were moved on to other games 5 years ago now.

[Psil_Semilan]

Game's alive! No reason to get pathetic!