No doubt, @Xevyr . Single Player gives you the possibility to circumvent a lot of aspects you don’t like when playing online.
Edit: great video.
Mods do really make a big difference.
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You’re the one engaging in hyperbole. The rest of us are merely noting that Conan has lost about 3k players in about 45 days, and that those losses coincided with some very unpopular changes to the game. There isn’t much in the dev vids that shows a reversal of the current course, other than an opt-in button for facing. It makes us curious about the vision for the game and the degree to which devs value our perspective.
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AH! Sorry, it wasn’t clear from that first post that this was your point, at least to me. 
Even when there we multiple 40/40 officials there were many 80/80 or 100/100 private RP servers so the population was always much higher there. However, with the way the systems are in place for wiping bases and suspending accounts, why would officials be higher? 
Those top 5 servers as posted by @Kikigirl show a population that would contradict your claim. No, the game is not dead. Maybe officials are, but the game certainly is not.
Obviously several hundred in those 5 servers alone. 
Nah, there’s still more you could do!
And yes, I am just messing with you @Voc41 Your post was clearly meant to be a joke so I was playing along.
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That would be great, thanks!
I wasn’t suggesting Officials should be higher.
The population is lower in general.
My comments in the OP were observations.
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Love to convince people to quit calling them “official”, they are “public”, like toilets.
In my minds eye an “official” game server should be a shining example of the game. Vanilla nomods showing off the game. What modded private servers would strive for. but…
I’m of the opinion that if the public servers were moved to a better host, and had active moderation, the number of players on the “official” servers would boom.
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I agree with you. Moderation is the bigest isue in official.
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My opinion as well and the expectation of players in general.
If we take that at face value and the time of which the (at least) NA east prime time is, there are no full servers for all modes on Official. It never used to be like this.
Even with the time for other regions it was common to see full servers anyway, especially for PVE and PVE-C.
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I have a friend who whant to administrate your game.
“Interesting” picture? It’s a tragic picture of an amazing game being completely butchered by people living in another universe
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Looking at the server list tonight around the same time as I posted a few days ago and certainly we live for the weekend. A lot can change in a very small window of time, even as little as 30 mins, especially on PVP.
Crossroads which didn’t show the last time, sure got popular. Probably just the general server list BS.
At least 10 privates are RP related based on the title on the first page but if you scroll down after letting it populate, a lot more private engagement for a Friday. Good, but if it goes back down by Monday or Tuesday, not the engagement it used to be or expected.
All modes, showing mods, all regions, private and Official:
All modes, no mods, all regions, private and Official:
All modes, no mods, all regions, Official:
Woohoo we have a maxed out Official with a queue, but in EU? If anyone could tell me what the raid time based on timezone for 1019 is that would be awesome. 1530 dropped down a lot and based on what I’ve seen, this is because of hacking and performance…
In general it looks like as to be expected weekends will see an increase of pop as those who are fortunate to have the weekend off or availability for clans to play together is higher. Plus! But only 1 maxed out Official, at least there’s an increase in general for the private servers.
There must be an event going on for Vanerium. Most of those high PVP private servers have had issues in retaining pop due to the combat system.
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I got the shots, will edit this when my tablet isn’t dead.
Took them for official but the paid servers were no different.
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I can’t get a straight answer from the players on 1019 XD
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For looking at server numbers and gathering info about this, with actual high accuracy, without the usual jankiness of the in-game server browser, I highly recommend @CodeMage’s BUGLE app that’s posted here on Funcom Forums. It’s so much better for actually seeing the numbers for all servers, instead of glitching out with in-game browser.
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Simply because nothing compares to single player performance.
Especially official gaming is very bad in the performance aspect. This chapter was the chapter of perfection on dodging, a little sooner or a little later and you get punished.
Then the purge. If you crash while purged on official server, log in to chaos and ruins. If you crash on single player, log in to something that never started.
Single player rocks, so yes even me in this chapter was mostly in single player. And i enjoy the hell of it.
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I agree with this. That’s why I’ve been calling them the Funcom provided servers or something along those lines for awhile now. They are not intended and do not reflect the best parts of the game.
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The games in a really really bad state cheaters run official servers i made a post on it i spoke to clan of hackers they ahve like 30+ members no point nowadays legit players just give them time and money no point playing funding the hacker and funcom blatantly not doing anything
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Exactly this! I’ve been playing on private RP often PvP enabled servers for past 4-5 years.
This is why I don’t get that attitude - you’re playing private servers with mods so begone from this forum as we “the real players who play on officials with hacks, we are the true voice of the community”.
But let’s not cheat ourselves, there are few full servers on top of the list, but 2-3 years ago there was a lot more of these full servers. I personally can see the decline in player population as well as I can see that all my former Conan-friends on Steam play different games, Ark Ascended being popular but titles and genres vary.
Private server disappear, as well as the modders do. But in my opinion this is normal, every game goes through similar stages of popularity.
So in my opinion it’s not that some other game had killed Conan, it’s boredom and bad decisions on the dev side of things.
We can not see big decline on Steam monthly players charts, but it’s due to “serial refreshers”, in reality these people don’t play the game.
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And with the offshoots that are expected to meet certain conditions.
For PVP the reason that the servers have dwindled so far in population are a mix but the biggest is hacking.
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This has never been the attitude.
I agree with the rest.
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