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Most populated MMORPG you have ever seen

OjinasOjinas Member Posts: 10
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

Sometimes you log into the game and see a wall of people, anyone got any story or screenshots of that? 

 

I think old lineage 2 win there, all those sellers in Aden or at caslte siege, Tho first few hours when world of warcraft release new expantion is pretty packed with people to, no screenshots on either of that tho..

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  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247

     

    Lineage 2 and EVE Online are the first two that come to mind for me. It's been a while since I played Lineage 2, but I remember both Giran and one of the cities just before it were pretty packs on a regular basis, not just with the merchants but with the players travelling in and out of the city. In EVE, I've been in battles of a couple hundred and I've been in Jita (the current trade hub) when it seemed like there were that many flying around.

     

     

     

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  • sirphobossirphobos Member UncommonPosts: 620
    Most people per square inch on a server I've seen has to be vanilla EQ1. This is of course because there was no instancing and the vanilla world wasn't extremely large, especially at mid to high levels. This is the only game I know of that has ever done server splits, and there was definitely a reason for them.
  • GeezerGamerGeezerGamer Member EpicPosts: 8,857

    For me it would have been in the 1st month or 2 following Rift's launch Running around Freemarch during a zone invasion.

    A good run for it's money there, was the day that Wrath of the Lich King released, trying to quest through Hellfire Penninsula with EVERY single Deathknight on the server in the zone.

  • OriousOrious Member UncommonPosts: 548
    I agree. L2 always seemed more populated. Even now there's a lot of people and you'll see people in EVERY leveling zone almost.

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  • mgilbrtsnmgilbrtsn Member EpicPosts: 3,430

    Really depends on where in it's life cycle you're talking about.  If you're talking in the beginning, GW2 and Warhammer come to mind.  The place was uber crowded.  If you're talking mid game, GW2 once again pops to mind, WoW maybe.

    It also depends on server.  Some servers can be completely full, while others aren't.  So you may think a game is dying if you happen to be on a low pop server.

    A lot of variables in this.

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  • dreamscaperdreamscaper Member UncommonPosts: 1,592
    While not actually players, seeing the sea of retainers in the old FFXIV 1.0 market stalls was always a crazy experience.

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  • hammarushammarus Member UncommonPosts: 196
    Without a doubt, its EvE online.  The game may not have the biggest community, lets face it, its almost niche.  But it knows how to pack people into a space.  Jita anyone?  Same goes for events,  it has the title for the biggest pvp battle of all time.  And thats recently, not game launch.
  • BattlerockBattlerock Member CommonPosts: 1,393
    World of Warcraft - so populated, they actually have dozens of servers.
  • scorpex-xscorpex-x Member RarePosts: 1,030

    Any mmo ever, during beta or launch.  Or new area release.

     

    An MMO is made to not have a wall of people these days, they spread them out as to not cause horrible lag issues.

  • AlBQuirkyAlBQuirky Member EpicPosts: 7,432

    The day Cata came out in World of Warcraft.
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    That was everyone in Stormwind lining up to get the new faster flight speed :)

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    No, that player on the box is not me. I was in the midst of that mess somewhere :)

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  • GReYVeeGReYVee Member UncommonPosts: 52

    Originally posted by AlBQuirky
    The day Cata came out in World of Warcraft.
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    That was everyone in Stormwind lining up to get the new faster flight speed :)[EDIT]
    No, that player on the box is not me. I was in the midst of that mess somewhere :)

    I can only assume 2/3rd's of those people were looking at BSODs.

  • DistopiaDistopia Member EpicPosts: 21,183
    Places like C-net (buff hubs) in pre-cu SWG when the Zerg (PVP guild on guild warfare) came through.

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  • MaurgrimMaurgrim Member RarePosts: 1,331
    Jita in EVE a saturday afternoon :D
  • filmoretfilmoret Member EpicPosts: 4,906
    I'd say Archeage when the game launched and again when they launched Auroria.
    Are you onto something or just on something?
  • gervaise1gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919

    To recent imo. 

    Whilst the population in e.g. Dun Morogh in WoW just after WoW launched in 2004 was so bad it became a slide show I think you need to go back further in time before phasing was introduced in c. 2004.

    Maybe Everquest around the tunnel connecting West Commons to Oasis were people used to congregate to sell things?

    Edit: Dun Morogh as in Stormwind as post below.

  • Azaron_NightbladeAzaron_Nightblade Member EpicPosts: 4,829

    Probably WoW. Those city hubs like Stormwind and Orgrimmar were always PACKED, especially around the AH and Bank. And that was only on one of the hundreds of servers the game has.

    Of course with some MMOs it's much more difficult to tell because they use different instances of the same zone to keep to crowds down. With some of them, like SWTOR, you can more or less guess by checking the number of instances. But with others like ESO, where you're not allowed to switch instances easily (and see how many there are currently in existence) it's impossible to tell.

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  • TimesplitTimesplit Member UncommonPosts: 191

    Even for an RP server, where less people usually gather, it was packed in WoW back in the day. The most people i've personally seen on screen in my experience, was during the AQ Gate event or Eranikus events. People massing up for the Outlands portal amounted to quite a few as well, i believe.

     

    Earthen Ring EU was the server, if anyone wants to know. :)

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