Is DAoC growing?

If you look at the graph of total players in the US, not really:

More or less the game is losing players since February 04. Steady in the last couple of months but not sitting in a very positive condition since it’s still sitting at the very bottom of its overall performance.

If you look at the graph of total players in the EU, not really either:

Right now the two regions have 50% of the subscribers (or better, active users) respectively, and both used to have much more months and years ago. A rough esteem of the number of total subscribers would put them at around 120-130k or slightly less considering the trends of the game.

Then Sanya said something about Gareth (one of the no-TOA servers) trending up in the last Grab Bag, and I went to see:

Yep, trending up and quite surprising. Is this an inversion of tendence? Well, it’s something but it still needs to be reproportioned if you look at the other cluster that shares the same ruleset of Gareth:

Gareth gained around 500 players, the Lamorak cluster lost nearly 400. More like a migration considering that the cluster has continued to decline since Gareth was taken as the “preferred” server.

Still, Sanya is right when she says that clustering Gareth could lead to issues. The servers usually cap at 3000 players and it doesn’t really matter if the servers are clustered instead of merged since the RvR zones is where the problems will arise (since those are shared). It would be possible right now, but would there be the risk of DAoC gaining some new players?

However, we’ve got some things coming down the pike that will almost certainly have an impact on those numbers.

You’ve got me curious.

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