Guild Wars 2

My God. The GW2 China site has a beautiful Anet team member bio section. While the site is in Chinese, the interviews are not. They definitely need to bring this type of interactive website content to our site.

http://gw2.kongzhong.com/act/team/bin/

Ree has always been my favorite, next to Colin of course.

Interesting tid-bit, Eric Rane mentions how overwhelming it can seem to have code being used by 500,000 players. Not sure why he uses that number, but he does.

Shockwave.1230:

Interesting tid-bit, Eric Rane mentions how overwhelming it can seem to have code being used by 500,000 players. Not sure why he uses that number, but he does.

Because it’s a decent round number that’s probably somewhere in the ballpark of their heaviest concurrent usage, would be my guess.

chemiclord.3978:

Shockwave.1230:

Interesting tid-bit, Eric Rane mentions how overwhelming it can seem to have code being used by 500,000 players. Not sure why he uses that number, but he does.

Because it’s a decent round number that’s probably somewhere in the ballpark of their heaviest concurrent usage, would be my guess.

I think you are wrong here, it is more like the number of active players all together.
500,000 concruent players in GW2? Maybe shortly after release. I am fairly sure that we are far away from that number right now.

Nothing beats a Ree cosplay! Makes me glad I play this game.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

chemiclord.3978:

Shockwave.1230:

Interesting tid-bit, Eric Rane mentions how overwhelming it can seem to have code being used by 500,000 players. Not sure why he uses that number, but he does.

Because it’s a decent round number that’s probably somewhere in the ballpark of their heaviest concurrent usage, would be my guess.

I think you are wrong here, it is more like the number of active players all together.
500,000 concruent players in GW2? Maybe shortly after release. I am fairly sure that we are far away from that number right now.

Well, at the 1 year point, they announced that they had about 460k concurrent players, and several times, they’ve stated that the player base is growing, not shrinking.

Those interviews were available quite some time ago, at least 6-8 months ago. Maybe a year. So, I am pretty sure whatever numbers were used when filming it (which would have been even longer ago) weren’t whatever numbers are current (be they more or less).

DusK.3849:

several times, they’ve stated that the player base is growing, not shrinking.

Anet’s really good at spin. I wouldn’t be surprised “player base is growing” means the total number of people who’ve ever logged on is growing (in fact, it can’t not be LOL).

Yes, the player “base” is growing with every game sold. As there is no sub, everyone who bought a copy is part of the player base pool.

With this wording, GW2 is always growing, as it never loses players.

Btw, they have never mentioned when they had 460k playres online, it was probably right after release.

Welp this thread turned into the wrong direction pretty fast.

Too many people seem oddly invested in GW2 not succeeding it seems. Why not take pleasant news as being pleasant?

CureForLiving.5360:

Too many people seem oddly invested in GW2 not succeeding it seems. Why not take pleasant news as being pleasant?

because!!!!! throws manifesto-trailer youtube links around

LOL @ kokiman

Can’t we all just get along, and enjoy seeing our GW2 Devs portrayed in a pretty nice interactive Flash page? The effects for each Dev bio are directed brilliantly. I mean, Ree does a “Get over here!” on the Shatterer, crumples him up and tosses at the screen.

That is the most adorable thing ever.

Ree and Colin are so cute, I love them.
I really hope they bring this thing over to the US/EU website.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I really hope they bring this thing over to the US/EU website.

I’d like if they just made a special section on the US site just for this, and just provide a link on the main page or something.