An Upcoming Bloodborne community event is aiming to repopulate the online player base just in time for the game’s inclusion as a PlayStation Plus freebie. The game was a big hit at launch, but Bloodborne is nearly three years old now, and the active player counts has dropped since 2015.
The Return to Yharnam event is being organized to have players to revisit the online world of Bloodborne. The plan’s goal is to have dedicated veterans to create a new character, engage heavily in co-op missions, and defeat players in PvP to create new Bell Maidens in less populated areas.
Online play in Bloodborne, as in Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls, allows players to lend each other a hand. But given that Bloodborne is an older game now, it isn’t experiencing quite as much activity as it used to, so the surge of new players coming from PlayStation Plus likely won’t have as many vets around as they would during the game’s heyday. The Return to Yharnam event aims to address that by focusing the community’s attention around specific goals.
“These ‘Return to…’ events seek to reinvigorate the online experience by trying to corral all the fans back to the game at the same time,” organizer illusorywall told Kotaku. “There are plenty of fans who aren’t playing these games perpetually, but love to revisit them maybe a couple of times a year. By organizing an event, we hope it catches the attention of these fans, and that they can experience something that could be more special than doing it at another random time on their own.”
The Return to Yharnam event is set to start on March 10 and last through March 24
