Just to chip in with user-counts, we are about +10% from before Christmas which I am quite pleased with. Today we achieve similar numbers to the same time as in 2015.
There was quite a push for the Christmas event and a lot of players joined or returned for that which is great. We don't expect these players to become permanent daily players like the main community, let's face it, there are other games to play! Numbers were also up from after the Halloween event, before that the user-count was getting a little grim!
One thing to point out, the number of stalls has declined drastically due to the implementation of Trust Merchant / Auction house, which makes the user-count look lower now than before. But I monitor the "active" number of players regularly and make sure you are still having fun!
There was quite a push for the Christmas event and a lot of players joined or returned for that which is great. We don't expect these players to become permanent daily players like the main community, let's face it, there are other games to play! Numbers were also up from after the Halloween event, before that the user-count was getting a little grim!
One thing to point out, the number of stalls has declined drastically due to the implementation of Trust Merchant / Auction house, which makes the user-count look lower now than before. But I monitor the "active" number of players regularly and make sure you are still having fun!