Half the fun of an expansion launch is seeing tons of people leveling with you. But so far I see half a dozen max in each quest hub I’ve done in bastion so far. I only see a handful of people in oribos too. The game feels extremely empty right now and it’s kinda killing my enjoyment of it.
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You should probably quit I don’t think there is anything that can be done about this and you will likely be alone in-game for two years.
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I love it. lol
One can actually quest! 
I think once we reach max level and complete the base part of the game it will change and go back to crowded.
But for now, Ahhh! So nice.
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Yeah don’t see many players at all. Its great I have all the quests mobs to my self 
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I played 2 toons in bastion and I have probably seen 12 people max. Feels weird
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Wait until you get to “Arms for the Poor” in Maldraxxus 
It’s like every 5 players have their own shard. lol They went really overboard.
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I hate seeing people level with me, I especially hate all the problems with escort quests and looting items with masses of people around. The only time I can actually be immersed in this game is when I am playing with no one around in the world.
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I found a rare spawn that required 3 people to activate it… except everyone I got to join my group was phased. Apparently now you actually have to go to a sanctuary to join someone else’s phase, when you join their group. Needless to say I wasn’t able to do the rare, despite plenty of interest.
Its a bug apparently. I have seen like 2 or 3 people all night in the same shard and nobody from other shards can hop to another shard in group finder we all isolated from each other.
Yep. SOme of the kill animals for parts quests you don’t want a lot of the other side there. I only saw 1 and that was an issue. They were the tag em all type. Great…5 animals nearby and they are all grey.
If lucky I see them take too much aggro to watch them die lol. I sure as hell won’t be rushing to save them lol.
And I was on a hunter. Still I tag and kill one at a time. We can all be decent to each other to get off this 10 body part quest in a decent time frame.
Agreed. Grouped up with a friend to hang out while starting our Bastion quests and it required us both to go visit Oribos to sync up. What the heck’s up with that? Pretty lame stuff. Kinda put a damper on our starting experience (though the expansion’s been fun so far).
I felt the same until I hit a quest spot that had much more players in it due to sharding. Then I was refreshed with the heavy sharding in other areas. Honestly for leveling having heavy sharding is insanely nice.
After reading that thread about the warmode QQ, I wonder if this wasn’t done because of warmode.
I like not having to compete for mobs to skin, or nodes to pick. If I want a crowded and clustered feeling experience I’ll play Classic WoW. I like that they used sharding as much as they did, seeing ten people out in the world is better than seeing 300 and waiting 2833289328 days for stuff to respawn.
Kudos, Blizzard. No, I’m not trolling either.