Guk server has been really empty this week. More so than usual. Someone said it was because many people are in Vegas for the SOE fanfaire....I sure hope that's not the case..

SOE fanfaires usually draw 4-5000 people (if that many) acroass all the games that the fan faire sponsors....

So if it's true is the EQ2 population really that low? I don't mean to imply that the overall population is only a few thousand, but if that many people are in vegas, maybe the server populations are much worse than we thought?

*shrugs* I dont know about Guk, perhaps you should post this on that server forums?

Butcherblock seems just as healthy as usual this week....

No one reads teh server forums...that is no one that can look into the server populations....if in fact ehy want to do anything about it...

Guk has been losing a lot of players since LoTRo and even more with AoC..most T8 zones have less than 20 people at peak times..last night KJ and JW had 14-16 people in each zone when I was there...

It may be that this week is just a down week. The Olympic Games are going on and that may be drawing people to the TV.

many dont login too often anymore since they have done all the rok stuff once too often (big number of eq2 players quits regularly to come back when an expansion launches).

olympics, while i'd never watch a single event related to it, some people love watching sports on tv.

most people dont do open dungeons in t8 and overland zones are boring once done with the quests.

most people dont group with non guildies, which also reduces the amount of chat in level channels and gives the game an empty feeling.

Didnt school start up this week?

Since voice chat went live, there seems to be a lot less text chat on Everfrost. Still easy to get a group though, for my 50's, 60's, and 80 toon.

AS for folks leaving for AoC, we have had three guildies come BACK from there, and bring either three or four new EQ2 players with them.

Heh.. I'm sure its just coincidence and nothing to do with the quality of AoC.. but every single friend of mine that left for AoC is back in EQ2 and accounted for.

just fyi blackburrow has been very busy this week

LOL, I see what you did there. Good choice of words.