Okay, I have just had to make an account to reply to this thread, because as a gamer and student of games design / development this annoys me, I mean, sure I get that the devs wouldn't like to include "useless" NPCs, and I get that roaming NPCs aren't seen by the devs as useful, but striker has a point, there might not be enough players to bring the game world to life especially on lower population servers, they're not going to be frequent enough, and whenever I've gone into a city it's been teaming with thousands of people, I get that you think that Striker is going to go into a city full of NPCs and butcher them like he does in GTA and admittedly he might give that a shot, but the game has systems much more complex than GTA to prevent that, such as the police force, criminal records, realistic weapons limitations etc, that and the cops aren't idiotic AI which has accuracy rivaling a stormtroopers. NPCs would serve a very important role if they were included, they'd make the cities / towns etc feel more populated like you see in the real world, and a lot of people will choose to be cops and robbers, so that really doesn't leave all that many civi players in the world. (I'm aware that I layed out my point and hit it with an axe, but I really am not a master of words for say, and I've just found out about this game so I might be a million miles from what the game is about but I think I get the jist and it looks really good regardless, apologies for the massive ass paragraph which could probably suffice with a single sentence). ^.^