Population concerns

[Easy Waters 0]

So I have stuck with Elysium back when that drama happened, I didn't care much for the details, I just stuck with the community I loved. 

I haven't been as active but in the past week I have been trying to find the time to play again. I have noticed, the number of players has been decreasing. It is currently prime time for NA on a friday night, and we're just shy of 800 players. When I was getting back into the scene, I noticed around 1.2-1.5k active. >800 is a pretty drastic decrease. 

 

I am concerned that it is time to move on, considering the population is seemingly dissipating. Do any more active players care to give me some insight? I don't want to start anew on Light's Hope, but I feel the lack of population is sueding enough for the transition. I am an altoholic, considering my lack of WoW experience in general, I was planning to be a self sustained player and learn the classes personally along side profession. I don't think I will have the opportunity now I have procrastinated enough... 

 

Please no flame or bashing, I would like a discussion,

Thank is all, thanks!

[Hater 14]

Wait a few more weeks, on the 15th old characters from the other servers Elysium was running will be merged with this one, alot of people will be getting thier old characters back, which will bring back older players and should boost the population.

 

https://forum.elysium-project.org/topic/65408-merge-update-tbc-open-beta/

Edited August 4, 2018 by Hater

[DarknessCalls 8]

13 minutes ago, Hater said:

Wait a few more weeks, on the 15th old characters from the other servers Elysium was running will be merged with this one, alot of people will be getting thier old characters back, which will bring back older players and should boost the population.

 

https://forum.elysium-project.org/topic/65408-merge-update-tbc-open-beta/

If we're going to be candid, most of those players moved to Light's Hope and played their characters on that project last year after the big drama, until they released their fresh realm recently. There may be a few that return (mostly those that just came back from a nearly year long exodus), but not enough to bolster the population in any significant way.

To the OP - This was expected. The two other current major Vanilla realm projects recently launched fresh realms, so most players migrated there. Also, as a Vanilla server moves along in its development timeline, that server loses players. I'm sorry to say that the population will likely continue to decrease as we move onto the final Naxx patch. Only the upcoming Burning Crusade project will have a chance of revitalizing the community here, depending on how well it is scripted and such.

Edited August 4, 2018 by DarknessCalls

[Mr_Rosh 7]

It's fairly common to see a decline in population during the summer. If you decide to give it a change now, you'll have a head start as apposed to those coming back after the holidays or the people coming back with the character merge. You'll also be ahead when TBC transfers will begin, if you decide to try it out.

[Ironz 0]

Im more concerned about population at classic server after TBC release :( 

[DarknessCalls 8]

4 hours ago, Ironz said:

Im more concerned about population at classic server after TBC release 😞

Oh yeah at that point it will be completely dead, but if it makes you feel any better, the staff hinted at possibly releasing another vanilla realm sometime in the future.

[thecrazyscot 16]

At least there won't be much ganking going on.  And with Blizz releasing BFA both servers could feel a little dead.

[Rain 29]

12 hours ago, Mr_Rosh said:

It's fairly common to see a decline in population during the summer. If you decide to give it a change now, you'll have a head start as apposed to those coming back after the holidays or the people coming back with the character merge. You'll also be ahead when TBC transfers will begin, if you decide to try it out.

This ^ - Population in summer always declines temporarily.