Been seeing a lot more new players lately
Or just the fact that, despite all the hate and criticism from inside, Guild Wars 2 is a good and solid MMO.
Noticed an increase in new players as well.
This is pretty typical around this time of year for most MMOs when summer is over and school / college starts up again.
Most of the new players I have run into fall into that category.
People that bought it at launch, quit, returned, quit again. I’ve seen quite a bit of this lately. Generally, summer participation goes down in the northern hemisphere for mmo’s, have noticed that for many years. Early fall participation starts to rise again. So some people checking back in again. You may have also noticed the trials recently, happened when participation is often at it’s lowest point of the summer.