Any official word in population?
Growing.
Due to a number of servers approaching full with a recent influx of new players from the sale on Gw2 that just ended, the server capacity was recently increased for a number of servers yes.
We only know the game has sold over 3 million copies, nothing else. The naysayers will tell you the game is dead. On my server at least it seems packed, but I’m on one of the busier servers.
Growing.
Due to a number of servers approaching full with a recent influx of new players from the sale on Gw2 that just ended, the server capacity was recently increased for a number of servers yes.
Unless you know how many people left vs. how many people bought the game, you can’t say that the active population is growing, just the number of accounts, which will continue to happen as that is the only way it can go.
Honestly, these threads should just stop. Nobody agrees on anything and we won’t know the answer unless the devs tell us. Speculation just causes flame wars.
Growing.
Due to a number of servers approaching full with a recent influx of new players from the sale on Gw2 that just ended, the server capacity was recently increased for a number of servers yes.
Unless you know how many people left vs. how many people bought the game, you can’t say that the active population is growing, just the number of accounts, which will continue to happen as that is the only way it can go.
Honestly, these threads should just stop. Nobody agrees on anything and we won’t know the answer unless the devs tell us. Speculation just causes flame wars.
But Anet has said at least at one point that the concurrency is going on, and that does match my in game observation. Of course, that was a while ago, and who knows now.
Also,. they said that the sale did well and they expanded the server cap as a result. You can all them liars if you want, but it sorta makes sense to me. Not very many interesting MMOs out these days to compete.
its nice to also be able to see all the name plates when runing around in the citys and actualy able to see players now when in the world… and than theres WvW were culling is off compltly OMG so manny people
Growing.
Due to a number of servers approaching full with a recent influx of new players from the sale on Gw2 that just ended, the server capacity was recently increased for a number of servers yes.
Unless you know how many people left vs. how many people bought the game, you can’t say that the active population is growing, just the number of accounts, which will continue to happen as that is the only way it can go.
Honestly, these threads should just stop. Nobody agrees on anything and we won’t know the answer unless the devs tell us. Speculation just causes flame wars.
But Anet has said at least at one point that the concurrency is going on, and that does match my in game observation. Of course, that was a while ago, and who knows now.
Also,. they said that the sale did well and they expanded the server cap as a result. You can all them liars if you want, but it sorta makes sense to me. Not very many interesting MMOs out these days to compete.
I don’t disagree with anything ANet says. That would be foolish, especially with you lurking, lol! :P
Yes, a while ago they said they had a large drop off, which is normal, and that concurrency numbers have steadily risen. What has happened since then, is unknown.
Yes, they also said the sale did well. They are also doing a trial weekend which will need server space as well.
I don’t disagree with any of that, and on the surface, it would appear the game is doing well. Still, that doesn’t mean that we know the actual numbers which means we can’t say for sure.
I’m not saying anything about it doing poorly, I am just saying that to use one statement to blatantly say it is growing is a bit half-honest. Yes, we know the number of accounts are growing. They always will. What we don’t know, and won’t know, is what the server population looks like on a day to day basis.
We don’t know the numbers, that’s 100% true. Also, anecdotally, some servers are really busy, others are not. There’s just no real way to know.
But in my experience, even at really off hours, if I post events in map chat, I get people showing up.
Its not a sub based game so you’ll never really know. So if 3 million copies were sold. Its some where between 1 and 3,ooo,ooo.
There are 51 GW2 servers worldwide. The game have sold a milestone of 3million.
3,000,000 / 51 = approx 58,823 average accounts registered to each server.
If we were to assume a 10% active accounts that plays at any given point in time, then there are approx 5,882 people playing in each server at any point in time.
This would bring the total to approx 300,000 players across all servers at any point in time.
Of course, these are just estimates.
(edited by Sky.7610)
They reached 2 million sales a couple weeks after launch. Had to halt sales.
They announced 3 million in January.
Based on that rate of growth, the number of times they’ve had to increase server capacity and Colin stating that sales have been increasing, I imagine they’ll be announcing 4 million sales soon.
498 people in my guild with 2 showing Unknown location.