Is open world pvp is dead?

The servers are still busy, though it can depend on your region and what time of day you sail at in terms of what you can expect. Hourglass' impact on the servers is far less that it was during the peak of Season Eight, far fewer players are doing that mode due to a number of reasons.

In a similar length session I had today, I saw every ship on the server. Mostly brigs and sloops, though a galleon logged in just as I was ending. I was sailing around the whole map though as I was looking for shipwrecks, and that makes a big difference.

If you see a Reaper's Chest/Bounty, there are at least 3 ships on the server. But, unless you are sailing in the middle of the night, servers are never "dead" - even then, you'll get server merges to move you to more populated ones.

Its far from dead, hourglass is for people looking to just fight and thats it. Most pvp is not just for the sake of fighting, but to steal loot or to remove a threat. So the main reason people fight is still VERY prevalent.

Turn off console/controller preferred and go do a FoF.

In my 3 hour game session I've seen 1 ship. So, is it just me, or pvp in open world doesn't exist anymore?

Funny I just seen three posts about how players are tired of

• Campers at Outposts
• Players sinking them everywhere they go

@owlim

it will come back, for the moment there is a bug with the SKULL OF DESTINY, and as usual it is not corrected quickly, the fix will arrive with the additions of the game... so you have to be patient