Quote Originally Posted by Yasuhiro View Post
I think they want player characters to do that, that'd imply the game is dead if they start adding in random npc's to fill up some space.
Not all zones stay busy forever, especially starter zones, that's true for just about every game out there. It doesn't imply the game is dead by any means, if anything it means that people are out exploring. It's worse for new players to log into a starter city and see a handful of afk ppl and statue npcs imo. Even if they took the npcs that are there and just made them wander around instead of unmoving, dead behind the eyes types it would be an improvement.

SE tho, they always do their own thing, and usually about 5+ years behind the rest of the worlds game developers so it's to be expected I guess.