All daoc servers show the same "curve of life", when you look at the population. This mechanism works for populations in any kind of hobby or even planet earth.

They will ALL die out at some point. Ultimately most daoc servers close, but be grateful that Uthgard has been rock steady and open for gaming, in so many years.

The game is old and there is no source of new players, thus its only the old ones left.

Life comes from life.

If developers and game masters made the server alive, events, development, enhancement, changes, then people come. Look at any online game in the entire computer history. If you leave something to itself, eventually everyone will leave it as well. Keep releasing expansions, content and events, people keep playing in pursuit it it.

While some hate this pursuit, that is was ultimately keeps us playing.

I am properly deep into being away 6 months from Uthgard by now. Some times I return for a while, months, years, but right now there is just too much other stuff going on in life.

Well said Mads.

I came back for a bit from 2017 onwards, was fun across 3 servers but now I'm just bored of the game atm.

It doesn't seem fresh anymore, and with the population hopping for the next greener pastures, more and more drop off.

People are however still sending me chatlogs for the bestiary and just here in April-May, there is some 25 logs submitted, so thank you all for the work

Makes me want to log in again!

I mean like now, ther are 37 players online on a Saturday at 6:45 pm EU.

Does that make me log on?

Or does it just make me think ill log on, hang around cs for about 10 minutes on the main, log off and do something else as I have 0 interest in playing anything else but my cleric