The player cap was a little over 300 players per faction per continent at the time of the record smash . A year and a half ago this cap was routinely reached on primetime , events and Friday and two years ago multiple continents could cap out on the high pop servers . Even these days we usually see at least 500 simultaneous people on Connery every Friday . If there were 200 300 total simultaneous users that would mean less than two platoons worth of players on each faction . So a quick glance at the squad menu tells us that your estimate is criminally low . Also , the servers did completely tank record smash event . <| sep |> Bad enough now all we have are the unlikable characters and boring storyarcs . I ' m still pretty interested in the Sandor Beric arc and where that goes . I can think of 3 or 4 possibilities for that arc and they ' re all good .