Hi all,
Does anyone know of a way to find out historic data on active (or non-active) GW2 accounts? If not, is there any decent proxy out there for this data? I am a finalist university student writing a paper on population shock in GW2 on its price level and am struggling to find this piece of information…
I have tried looking for potential proxies such as historic WvW kill/death data or traded volume (not listed) on the trading post but have come up with no success as of yet.
If anyone can help out, it will be greatly appreciated
C
GW2 population - for research purposes
If it is out there. I haven’t seen it. I have seen it asked for many times. If you do find it, please post it up!
No official statistics are available for this. You’ll only receive speculation at best.
I don’t think that data is publicly available.
Because Arenanet is a wholly owned subsidiary of NCSoft they don’t need to make any info on how they’re doing public – only report it to NCSoft directly. And since there’s no subscription and as a result the number of active players is not directly relevant to the games profitability they may not even report it to them.
The only info we can get which gives an idea of how the game is doing is the NCSoft quarterly reports, which state how much money they earned from GW2 and how it compares to their own games. But I doubt that’s any use at all for your purposes.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
They’ll never say. But if I say the many, many, many empty maps in the new zones are any indication, someone will come here and tell us that there’s one or two full maps out there. So the community isn’t dying or shrinking.
Use LFG.
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Yeah, that logic escapes me too.
Gone to Reddit.
Try contacting the ANet directly and see what they’re willing to tell you. My guess is, not much. It doesn’t seem to be information they want to give out.
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
ANet may give it to you.
I would suggest picking a topic you can research properly, this isn’t likely to get you a good grade since you will have very little evidence to back up any claim (also you started your paper with a conclusion in mind before having any data – this is bad research).