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Kierst Jan 16, 2019 @ 4:23pm
Playerbase at different timezones.
I'd like to know how is the playerbase in this game at different times of the day? I haven't found any thread about this, or they're rare, so I'd love to engage into discussion or hear stories from you regarding this topic. I am from Europe myself and I've only tried the game at night time with NA players, but it wasn't for long to form an opinion. Before I play this game more, I'd love to listen to your experiences and opinions with EU and NA players. Are you an European player? If so, would you rather play at night time or day time? This question is mostly aimed at European players, but NA players can share their thoughts on this as well.
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Originally posted by Kev:
Mm so, I guess what you're really asking is, are there always people to hangout with/play games with right? whats the difference between how active things are between the different time zones?

I'm Australian myself, but my sleep schedule is regularly pretty messed up, so I've had a sort of unique opportunity to have been online at...well pretty much everyone's time zone at some point, the things I've noticed is, generally, you'll never have a problem finding someone to talk to or play a game with or something, there's never really a shortage of people online at any time, some times are more populated than others, but that's kind of expected and its pretty much the same as most other games, more populated during US time zones, but that's only the larger picture.

Looking closer at things, certain games/worlds are more populated during different time zones though, like for example MMD worlds tend to be more popular with the Japanese and Asian communities, and the times those worlds are the most active reflects that, where as worlds like LS Media etc tend to boom at US times, but are generally pretty active all the time since there's almost always people wanting to watch movies together, some worlds also just tend to get active when something is actually going on, some of the club worlds, at least publicly, seem pretty low pop during the week days, but over the weekends tend to increase a lot, more so if there's an event of some kind going on and people are spilling over from that.

Overall though, It's never felt empty unless you purposely go to empty worlds (I do sometimes, it's nice to just explore by yourself sometimes), sometimes certain worlds have felt a bit dead, like, I went to the pool hall world once, was only a few people playing, seemed really dead, but after playing VRC for ages.., well half of that is because every world has a pool table in it, so if you want to play pool for example, you just go to any of the popular hangout worlds and ask someone if they want to play, usually there will be someone.
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CreativeIcarus Jan 17, 2019 @ 12:20am 
I'm an EU player and i have to stay up untill 3 am so i can do stuff with my American friends.
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Zaurask Jan 17, 2019 @ 12:42am 
I come from The Netherlands (also settled in Europe, if your topography isn't that good :P) and my loading speeds are just fine all around. Yesterday I was chatting it up with a guy from South America and the connection was excellent on all fronts (sound, animation etc.).
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Kierst Jan 17, 2019 @ 1:09am 
Originally posted by Creative Icarus:
I'm an EU player and i have to stay up untill 3 am so i can do stuff with my American friends.

Interesting. So you don't play with EU players? American players are just nicer to hang with?

Originally posted by Zaurask:
I come from The Netherlands (also settled in Europe, if your topography isn't that good :P) and my loading speeds are just fine all around. Yesterday I was chatting it up with a guy from South America and the connection was excellent on all fronts (sound, animation etc.).

Netherlands, it's close to Germany! At what time you were chatting up with the guy from South America? Do you play more often on day time or evening/night time?
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Zaurask Jan 17, 2019 @ 1:26am 
Originally posted by Noire:
Netherlands, it's close to Germany! At what time you were chatting up with the guy from South America? Do you play more often on day time or evening/night time?

I was probably chatting with him between 23:00 and 0:00 in the evening/night.
Mostly I play in the evening, as I work during the day from monday til friday, and the weekends are often filled with other plans.
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MajorFool Dec 9, 2022 @ 1:53am 
This webpage tracks the playbase data in UTC time. Simply convert the times shown from UTC to your timezone.
https://steamdb.info/app/438100/graphs/
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Kev Dec 9, 2022 @ 4:57am 
Mm so, I guess what you're really asking is, are there always people to hangout with/play games with right? whats the difference between how active things are between the different time zones?

I'm Australian myself, but my sleep schedule is regularly pretty messed up, so I've had a sort of unique opportunity to have been online at...well pretty much everyone's time zone at some point, the things I've noticed is, generally, you'll never have a problem finding someone to talk to or play a game with or something, there's never really a shortage of people online at any time, some times are more populated than others, but that's kind of expected and its pretty much the same as most other games, more populated during US time zones, but that's only the larger picture.

Looking closer at things, certain games/worlds are more populated during different time zones though, like for example MMD worlds tend to be more popular with the Japanese and Asian communities, and the times those worlds are the most active reflects that, where as worlds like LS Media etc tend to boom at US times, but are generally pretty active all the time since there's almost always people wanting to watch movies together, some worlds also just tend to get active when something is actually going on, some of the club worlds, at least publicly, seem pretty low pop during the week days, but over the weekends tend to increase a lot, more so if there's an event of some kind going on and people are spilling over from that.

Overall though, It's never felt empty unless you purposely go to empty worlds (I do sometimes, it's nice to just explore by yourself sometimes), sometimes certain worlds have felt a bit dead, like, I went to the pool hall world once, was only a few people playing, seemed really dead, but after playing VRC for ages.., well half of that is because every world has a pool table in it, so if you want to play pool for example, you just go to any of the popular hangout worlds and ask someone if they want to play, usually there will be someone.
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Kierst Dec 9, 2022 @ 8:28am 
I appreciate your answer, guys, but this thread is 3 years old.
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Kev Dec 9, 2022 @ 9:51am 
Originally posted by Kierst:
I appreciate your answer, guys, but this thread is 3 years old.
Jeez didn't notice that, sorry for helping with the necromancy lol, but hey i guess it might help anyone asking the same question now *shrugs*
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Kierst Dec 10, 2022 @ 7:24am 
Please stop with necro posting if you have nothing useful to add to the topic.
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