Sever populations were in until I wanna say... Velious?

Almost until Luclin launch:

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010911a.html

More proof that there are people on this forum who never actually played EQ back then, but lie and claim they did presumably because they think it gives them "street cred" on this board. As everyone who was actually there is well aware, server populations were visible right there at the server select screen for years. There are pictures of that login screen floating around the internet, including some that have been posted on this very forum.


Danth

I will back this up. Brell Serilis ranged between 900 to 1200 players during pre Kunark, and Fennin Ro was one of the big winners with a pop ranging about 30-40% higher. Poor little Lanys T'val opened with like 750 at launch and then started dipping downwards. I don't recall when the numbers stopped being shown, but they were there initially for quite a while on the server select screen.

i don't remember there ever being less than the range of 2000 people on at any server at any time of day back before luclin

Okay

https://i.imgur.com/U6v93OW.jpg

Hey, I used to play on Brell!

...I feel like there were more people online than that. Maybe it was just a brave new world.

That screenshot is straight from the manual. This means it was made by an employee so it is likely to have been taken some time between 8am-5pm on a weekday. By all measures those would have been good numbers for that time and day.

the initial burst might.

Never gonna sustain it, and I'm not confident in the burst.

Imagine being this aggressively wrong.

Server select screen def showed each server population for quite a while. Unfortunately back then when I was a wee teenager I didn't save print-screen screenshots of it to prove to people later.