Guild Wars 2

Here is a survey of GW2 players. GW2 received a great review.

http://www.gamestatistics.fr/Guild%20Wars%202%20survey%202013_Full%20Report.pdf

Very interesting. Thanks for the link. =)

That was a good read and extremely interesting. It seems that GW2’s customers love the game even more then when it first came out. The only area that has reason to complain is sPvP although WvW has dropped in population but I bet after the EotM release it increased a lot more. Literally almost everything has steadily increased since launch when it comes to satisfaction when they were already really high.

It’s kind of interesting the topic on the cash shop. Most players agree that the prices are unreasonably high, but most people do think that they do have interesting things in there and it is not pay to win. Which I think we all know that.

As far as the releases go, most people liked the Super Adventure Box. Please give it back? lol. Also, 80% of respondents would be interested in purchasing a major expansion. Cmon Anet, give it to us. I would pay for it if it was that good.

When it comes to favorite class, it looks about right to me. Guardian being the fav, while warrior and elementalist being second. One for cheese, and the other for different flavors. Guess which is which? I was surprised Necro was last though, I thought it would be Engi or Ranger.

Anyways, thanks for the link! It was a great read and I suggest other people read as well.

First thing that struck me was that it was WAY overweighted towards European players. What’s the actual split by region? My guess is well over half of active GW2 players are in North America, but the survey has them at only 29%.

Qaelyn.7612:

First thing that struck me was that it was WAY overweighted towards European players. What’s the actual split by region? My guess is well over half of active GW2 players are in North America, but the survey has them at only 29%.

I also doubt that 29% of the players play on French servers, 18% on the single Spanish server, but only 3% on the German ones. Those statistics do not seem to be representative.

Those issues are actually adressed in the study methodology description. This is not a globally representative sample.

Ya, that’s not global. They were trying to be fair and giving an example from each of those regions and showed how many that did the survey were from each one. Kinda sucks this went to links ville. Bad mod decision. Not one person will see it now. Yet anybody else can post links to other things. This isn’t a fan site. Like wtf?

Interesting numbers…

highlights with my personal comentary in brackets below each point:

1. Overwhelming majority of players are old accounts a.k.a early buyers Oo Almost no new blood.
(ok this may not be true since we have no data after september 2013)

2. there is something very wrong with sPvP
(bugs, class balance, not enough game modes…. this one is obvious)

3. 72% of players do not go into dungeons regulary even tho we dont have elitist “raiding” enviroment and restrictive trinity like in other games. Something is not quite right in here either.
(number of regular visitors should be much higher. I wish there was also survey about why is majority of players uninterested in the dungeons. Also survey about how many pll go into fractal would be interesting)

4. Only 21% of players finds much of the stuff in the gem shop interesting. 75% of players finds only few things interesting. Out of 96% of players that buy or would buy something from gemshop, only average of 57% of all players ever buy something with real money.
(maybe too much “cute” junk? I would buy cool armor skin inspired by ancient or early middle ages real world models such as human/norn cultural armors or maybe new visual effects for my weapons but certainly not cute quagan backpack or mini chicken)