It can't be just me that noticed this, but doesn't the game feel pretty empty lately?  Many items never appear on CM.. ppl got bored and quit?

What items are u talkin about? In EU ppl sold 2 PEN debos in one day last week...

The party finder is still showing some activities, not less than before. 

If you think BDO feels empty, wait until you try the supposed critically accliamed MMORPG FF14.... Yoshi P let that game go down the toilet so fast. Hardly anyone plays that game and I'm not surprised, they refused to use Azure or some other cloud service temporarily while everyone wanted to join and play and said they wouldn't have their servers until August of this year. Meanwhile they decided to postpone their updates one after the next and the most important ones are still delayed. Hell, you can't even buy a house because their new auction system is so buggy they delayed it until mid-may and it's not a guarantee that it iwll be available then.

Think that's bad? They decided that thier major updates will be on a 4 month patch cycle now instead of 3. And to add more nails to the coffin, their events are repeats of the past events which historically, they have been adding unique events. This should tell you something about FF14...

Now why am I bringing this up? It's because while you login and see almost nobody anywhere anymore and the guild you are a part of once had over a hundred users online at any given time (even overnight) but yet now there's less than 10, and this is aparently not exclusive to your guild... What about other games? Where are people going? What are people doing?

I don't have an answer to this. I doubt people are playing new world or the p2w cashgrab lost ark. So where is everyone going? I feel like people are trying different games right now and BDO is one of those that people are trying. There's a lot more players you encounter in BDO than in FF14, despite FF14 having a higher population count. lol!

Personally bumping between olvia (returning player perks heh) and season server I would say that perceived business difference between the two is quite large - around heidel for example, I see some people on olvia servers, some around storage, couple at CM NPCs, handfull here and there and 4-5 at afk-training-dummies. Meanwhile same heidel at seasonal server has much bigger crowds everywhere, with nearly all afk-training-dummies constantly occupied.

ye more free place to grind and lifeskill ^_^

It's cause the pretty trees are gone...

I feel the same ... other seasons bring back more players to the game. I think this new class did not impress many people... or waiting for new winter area after korean get it just kill the hype , plus LoA came out meantime.

That's the question isn't it? Why should we bother with this place? It's like 10 meters square in size compared to what I was expecting. I was hoping something much bigger, ice fishing, having a purpose to the alpaca but no... Absolutely nothing is worth doing there. Nothing.

The fact that we're 5 months behind Korea and they have nothing beyond what we have for that region says a lot. We're getting nothing for the next 5 months. I'm convinced that PA's marketing is tailored to milking as much as they can from new players and throwing them in a ditch once they feel they're at the point where they're not spending enough money. It's a casino tactic, dry your customers dry until it's time to kick them out. There's more than enough people in the world to keep this concept perpetually until the game becomes too dated to play.

Minimal updates seems reasonable for their business strategy. Doesn't mean it's right for them to do so. I know i'm not jumping on crimson due to this.