Quote Originally Posted by Immortal View Post
It isn't solely about doing content, I'm sorry but 300 ppl online (half are afk or mule) is pittiful, less than a private server and surely it feels dead. It's also about seeing life around you in a so called MMORPG. Not only about the ability to do content, your items will sell very slowly on the AH, you'll feel less like youre in a breathing world.
When 290 of those 300 people aren't possibly going to be interacting with you at any given time, does it really matter?

I don't need the background noise, or the world to "breathe.". Even with those "pitiful" numbers (which are higher on the weekend/prime times), as long as I can do what I want to do in the game, not much else matters. I come back to this game primarily for the greater depth in gameplay that it has compared to modern MMOs today, and also to reconnect with old friends who still play. Since the server is still meeting my needs, and has less lag and other issues than a bigger server, I have no reason to change.

Crowds of people making "Noise" is an extra, not an essential component of the experience. It's nice, but don't you dare assume that we are having a terrible time on our "ghost town" server just because it doesn't have thousands of concurrent users.