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Yeah, sure... that thing you do maybe once before leaving Farside. That's a real good indicator of overall population... and not in fact only the Farside population on your server.


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Holy shit 4 kids in 4 years. When does the body have time to heal?! Yea, lady, don't be talking smack to the person paying for your subscription! :lol:


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Thing to remember about population is people dont realize how many are in each zone. Last night in stormtalon there were at least 50 players in thayd just kinda running around or chit chatting. There were so many people at SW that I could barely play and it died in literally like 2 minutes. I would say there were at least 100 players there from both factions, then the tree event just before that had 2 full raid groups and again who knows how many dom where included in that as well. Now lets factor in everyone thats probably in raids at that time. My guild was for 1 so thats another 20 right there, then factor in how many were doing adventures, dungeons, leveling, new players. Thats just for one faction. There have been alot of new people leveling on stormtalon the past few weeks. So thats just one faction and one server in NA PVE. At the given time I was playing. Now think about all the oceanic players playing that you dont see. Then factor in all the EU players and their servers (Pretty sure they have a bigger population than we do). I honestly don't think they were stretching that they have hundreds of thousands subbed. But we don't see those numbers because there are many people doing different things all at different times from raids/dungeons/adventures to pvp to dailys or leveling and even just standing around in the capital. I think it will become much more apparent that the numbers are pretty big when servers come back up. I even bet you that people will complain that there are TOO MANY PLAYERS in events causing stuff to die to fast and lag/fps drops etc etc.


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Snarky comments aside, he said changes to the raiding system, which I would assume means a move to 20-man (or smaller). Wanting more raiding content is not the same as wanting 40-man raiding content. The current plan is not worth his subscription, and I doubt he is alone. Every 4-5/6 20-man guild right now that can't make the transition once they down Ohmna will be more lost subscribers (especially with WoD around the corner that they can easily switch to with flex/20). 40-man was always a risky expiriment, and I am surprised that so many resources were placed on it, with virtually no back-up plan, and just stop making them isn't a good plan unless you have a new 20 man ready to go (a single boss encounter that is between dungeons and GA is not it). I was a supporter of 40-man, because it has a lot of benefits but they aren't being capitalized on and the playerbase is not adjusting, and who knows the playerbase might stabalize and see success in it, but I doubt it.


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Serious question: did you just find out about the megaservers? There have been free transfers off low population servers for the last month. That's why you're not seeing people on Myrcalus. Regarding the hundreds of thousands, they're probably counting active subscriptions and people who bought subscription time with CREDD, not concurrent log-ins. A lot of people have been keeping subscriptions up but waiting for megaservers to jump back in, and many have transferred to Stormtalon or Pergo. /Maybe my sarcasm meter is broken and I just need more coffee. :D


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