Why do people say Quarm has more players?

[carrots]

Just stated on p99 again after a 4 year break.

Reading reddit and other places, when p99 and quarm are mentioned, they are like "There are more people on Quarm" however, everytime i've logged in for the past 2 weeks, Green always has like 200+ more players vs quarm.

am i missing something?

https://i.imgur.com/awZp7oA.png

[spoil]

Welcome back. Players experience Quarm more like a modern MMO: they progress quickly to max level, see the end game content, raid log for a bit, then log off completely until the next expansion.

[WarpathEQ]

Quarm is the newest project that was released (not counting THJ being shut down and EQL still being in beta). Just like all classic EQ projects they see a huge pop on release and then tapor off over time. Quarm did have a much larger population when it was fresh and new. Now that it has matured and people probably see less of a future in it given that the main developer is now being paid to work on EQL its fallen off a lot.

[BradZax]

Quarm is like the Dalnir Crypt of eq emus.

[Ciderpress]

Let's emulate the period of the game where a bunch of people quit