Is Homecoming shrinking?

[jc57]

I had played briefly in 2019 and ended up on Indomitable at the time.  I had actually forgotten about that and when I came back a couple of months ago I was surprised to find I had a forum and game account already.

 

Logged in, and amazingly enough, there was my roster of characters on Indomitable.  About 5 of them, max was maybe level 14, all slotted up with TOs, broke, and nobody to play with at lower levels.  So yeah, that shard had shrunken.  After getting my bearings and realizing that transfers are free and character slots are essentially unlimited, I ended up settling down on Everlasting, Excelsior, and Torchbearer with different sets of toons.  I tried to hold out for a while on Indomitable but it just worked out better for me to play on the more populated shards.

 

Excelsior is as busy as you could want and there is always something going on.  Everlasting is a bit less populated but still enough going on where there are things to do, and I have made some friends there.  Torchbearer is smaller, but has a good, welcoming and friendly community. 

 

MMOs will always shrink, unless there is a steady influx of new blood and those new players are welcomed and helped by existing players.  That is one thing that I have found consistent across all of the shards - everyone is helpful and understanding and new people are treated well.

[Snarky]

17 hours ago, jc57 said:

MMOs will always shrink, unless there is a steady influx of new blood and 

Being in your friends, families, neighbors!  We need new blood!  It will be wonderful, like Christmas!

 

[Scarlet Shocker]

19 hours ago, jc57 said:

I had played briefly in 2019 and ended up on Indomitable at the time.  I had actually forgotten about that and when I came back a couple of months ago I was surprised to find I had a forum and game account already.

 

Logged in, and amazingly enough, there was my roster of characters on Indomitable.  About 5 of them, max was maybe level 14, all slotted up with TOs, broke, and nobody to play with at lower levels.  So yeah, that shard had shrunken.  After getting my bearings and realizing that transfers are free and character slots are essentially unlimited, I ended up settling down on Everlasting, Excelsior, and Torchbearer with different sets of toons.  I tried to hold out for a while on Indomitable but it just worked out better for me to play on the more populated shards.

 

Excelsior is as busy as you could want and there is always something going on.  Everlasting is a bit less populated but still enough going on where there are things to do, and I have made some friends there.  Torchbearer is smaller, but has a good, welcoming and friendly community. 

 

MMOs will always shrink, unless there is a steady influx of new blood and those new players are welcomed and helped by existing players.  That is one thing that I have found consistent across all of the shards - everyone is helpful and understanding and new people are treated well.

 

A few of us run a "Steady Indom" content session every Saturday that's proving to be enjoyable,  rewarding and successful. We'd welcome more folks of course but we almost always get a pretty full team. It's leisurely and I'd describe it as pretty low key but definitely worth doing.

[lemming]

3 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

 

A few of us run a "Steady Indom" content session every Saturday that's proving to be enjoyable,  rewarding and successful. We'd welcome more folks of course but we almost always get a pretty full team. It's leisurely and I'd describe it as pretty low key but definitely worth doing.

As someone who is infrequent, but when the timing works it's a great group to hang out with.    And the Indom GM hunt in the afternoon (or evening for you EST)

[markuswaters]

I've not been here long enough to speak to player count, but I can definitely say that this community deserves to grow.  Y'all are great so far! 😁

[mistagoat]

I've been on HC since Feb 2021 and the pop feels pretty much same now as it was then. I can fill teams quickly and I can easily join a team if I don't feel like leading. (I'm on Excel 95% of the time) There was a spike for a couple months when HC got the NC Soft nod, other than that it feels like business as usual. I'm old now so I can't stay up till the wee hours of the morning like I did back on live so I can only speak to EST 7am-ish to 11pm-ish.