Ghosttown's and stupid mobs

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The flip side of this is that people were sharing pictures of the new endzone town, Leyawiin, being absolutely deserted a few weeks after the expansion launch. Literally deserted. As in pictures of no people at all. Granted this was probably during non peak periods, but this was the new expansion. Doing the new expansion zone was extremely underwhelming when nobody was in the expansion zone a few weeks after launch. They all went digging for water nodes, or back to hanging out in Vvardenfell's crafting center, or maybe back to the Reach. That to me was extremely disappointing.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the lack of NPCs in Leyawiin also contributed to it feeling ... actually, ACTUALLY empty without players.

ESO has every zone relevant but there's far too many people spread out over so many zones. You meet far more people in FFXIV leveling, even without ESO megaservers, and you don't get the huge crowd of people flocking to do the new expansion content. There were more people hanging out in Eulmore last month, 2 years after the last expansion launched, than I could see in Leyawiin's hub less than a month into the new expansion and that was horrible.

Here is a picture of ESO's new expansion Hub TEN DAYS into launch - https://i.imgur.com/CpC6zdJ.png

Taken from this thread here https://forums.elderscrollsonline.co...wood-a-flop/p3

More people did tend to hang out in the crafting areas, but that's not sustainable because most people head back to Vivec to do their crafting because it's quicker, and there's no loading screen between them and the bank. So yeah, Blackwood ... empty as all get out. Was extremely, extremely disappointed.

True, the players are spread out more.
But imo that just adds to the feeling of a living world.
Sure, a buzzling endgame hub in a new expansion feels lively.
But what about the rest of the game where zones are now deserted since it's no longer relevant.
I enjoy traveling around and see people wherever I go instead of just all gathered in a handful of carefully selected locations due to it being relevant to endgame.

And yeah, Leyawiin was pretty empty on people in a week after launch.
I was actually surprised by it myself, I quite enjoy that zone.
But one has to remember that the expansion was only 1 map which honestly could be done in a few days without even grinding it.
So I'm not surprised that once people bombrushed it, as we know people love to rush new content and then complain there's nothing to do, people left to do whatever they felt like doing.
And you gotta remember that Eulmore is still where you trade in all the endgame stuff like Tomes, tokens etc so it's still a relevant endgame hub, where Leyawiin is just another town added with nothing special to it than any other town.

No game can tend to everyones fancy, but I enjoy ESO for the feeling of freedom the world has where one can travel where ever when ever without restrictions and how living it feels with how detailed the maps are and all the NPCs walking around and the random encounters one can see while just exploring.
And I enjoy FFXIV for the good story telling and the more structured pace the combat has.
No game is perfect, so I'm playing different games for different reasons and have found a balance I enjoy through it.