Guild Wars 2: The Second Year in numbers?

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Posted by: Zlociutki.9165

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Q:

Hello.
ArenaNet are you going to introduce us a new statistics for year 2 as it was after the first year of the GW2?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-the-first-year/

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Posted by: Bloodstealer.5978

Bloodstealer.5978

Have to say that was a pretty good way to put some stats out for the game… wonder how things compare as of today.. would be nice to have another glimpse if only to see how class spread etc is altering if at all

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Posted by: Korossive.7085

Korossive.7085

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new weapon types: 0
  • # of new weapon combinations: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of lore to legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of guild housings: 0
  • # of players in Cantha/Elona: 0
  • # of cape skins: 0
  • # of new usages for dungeon or fractals tokens: 0
  • # of characters who changed race: 0
  • # of ascended rings salvaged: 0
  • # of fixes for merge-kicking: 0
  • # of fixes to 25-conditions in PvE: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of attainable Halloween backpiece/Witch Hats: 0
  • # of Halloween 2014 weapon skins: 0
  • # of outfits converted to armor: 0
  • # of developments to Orr story: 0
  • # of developments to personal story: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of paths sold for gold: 254,269
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

Such wow.

So there you have your Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

EDIT: Updated for comments. PvP/WvW not even mentioned, not enough space.

(edited by Korossive.7085)

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Posted by: Yargesh.4965

Yargesh.4965

I believe the Korossive post above is fairly clear explanation of the company not doing things for fun. Really good descriptive and accurate name there Korossive.

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

Gee, wasn’t Ascended Armor released in December of 2013? I was thinking that was during the second year. Pretty sure you can’t get that in the Gem Store. /shrug

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

Gee, wasn’t Ascended Armor released in December of 2013? I was thinking that was during the second year. Pretty sure you can’t get that in the Gem Store. /shrug

The Hero weapons came out in Spring 2014. The Ambrite weapons, pretty sure before the 2nd birthday. The Glorious armor, PvP, missed the deadline by a bit.

A fair number of backpieces were released, but I guess we aren’t counting them for some reason.

(edited by Astral Projections.7320)

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Einlanzer.1627

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

While there is a tad bit of hyperbole and dismissiveness in this post, it still really illustrates what a disaster this game is right now. I can’t believe anyone wonders why there’s so much snide negativity on the forums.

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

While there is a tad bit of hyperbole and dismissiveness in this post, it still really illustrates what a disaster this game is right now. I can’t believe anyone wonders why there’s so much snide negativity on the forums.

Especially when you realize that list is inaccurate.

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Posted by: Einlanzer.1627

Einlanzer.1627

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

While there is a tad bit of hyperbole and dismissiveness in this post, it still really illustrates what a disaster this game is right now. I can’t believe anyone wonders why there’s so much snide negativity on the forums.

Especially when you realize that list is inaccurate.

If it is, it isn’t by much.

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

While there is a tad bit of hyperbole and dismissiveness in this post, it still really illustrates what a disaster this game is right now. I can’t believe anyone wonders why there’s so much snide negativity on the forums.

Especially when you realize that list is inaccurate.

If it is, it isn’t by much.

3 armor sets (the ascended) for the 3 classes, 9 if you consider the 2 new PvP armors for all 3 classes.. 2 weapon sets, ambrite and the hero weapons.

A list like that is only for the purpose of being “edgy” and sarcastic since it didn’t try for accuracy.

(And let’s ignore all the back pieces released since launch)
(And the part about human female animations removed. That’s an acknowledged bug so the part about removed is another inaccuracy)

(edited by Astral Projections.7320)

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Posted by: Azure The Heartless.3261

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What about the:
~Backpieces
~Weapons (mistforged, amberite, etc)
~World Boss
~Scarlet story arc which included several “world bosses”
~Stat prefix
~ New Runes
~New Zone
~New Dragon
~New Region Release in China
~New Tournaments?

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I used to think (build op, pls nerf) like you, but then I took a nerf to the knee.

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Posted by: ProtoGunner.4953

ProtoGunner.4953

Of course they won’t release any statistics be cause they would show how abysmal the game performes compared to the first year. Even the first year numbers were presented in a shady way (max players who played at one moment in this year, oh btw it was something with 400k people, compare this to Destiny: 3.4 million).

Fact is: WoW still holds 6 million people who pay monthly while GW2 is free and is played by a couple of 100k people.

‘would have/would’ve been’ —> correct
‘would of been’ —> wrong

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Of course they won’t release any statistics be cause they would show how abysmal the game performes compared to the first year. Even the first year numbers were presented in a shady way (max players who played at one moment in this year, oh btw it was something with 400k people, compare this to Destiny: 3.4 million).

Fact is: WoW still holds 6 million people who pay monthly while GW2 is free and is played by a couple of 100k people.

The highest concurrency I saw for Destiny was 853,235 not 3.4 million. http://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update---08012014/en/News/News?aid=12007

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Posted by: rapthorne.7345

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Of course they won’t release any statistics be cause they would show how abysmal the game performes compared to the first year. Even the first year numbers were presented in a shady way (max players who played at one moment in this year, oh btw it was something with 400k people, compare this to Destiny: 3.4 million).

Fact is: WoW still holds 6 million people who pay monthly while GW2 is free and is played by a couple of 100k people.

WoW has always had the resources of a major game developer at hand, a staff of several thousand, and worldwide brand recognition/loyalty to keep players in. GW2 is supported by a small team crushed under the boots of NCSoft’s demands.

Destiny is also a cross platform game, which allows it to reach an incredibly large audience (The vast majority of Destiny players are console players, I believe), whereas GW2 is pc-exclusive. On top of being an FPS (one of the most popular next-gen game genres)

If ArenaNet had a larger team and NCSoft was not a part of the picture, the game would be a booming success and likely dwarf other F2P games.

That’s the other aspect of GW2 that affects it. GW2 is in it’s own niche of Buy to Play. Once you have the game, it’s yours for good. No subs, just gaming. Games likw WoW compel you to play them to get your money’s worth from the sub, whereas GW2 seems to be more aimed at a casual experience. This also keeps away the F2P gamers who may not be willing to invest in the game before being able to try it out (one of the reasons WoW implemented a perm free account option to allow players to play up to level 20 under restrictions)

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Posted by: ProtoGunner.4953

ProtoGunner.4953

The highest concurrency I saw for Destiny was 853,235 not 3.4 million. http://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update---08012014/en/News/News?aid=12007

That’s the Beta. Here are the actual facts:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2014/10/13/destiny-boasts-3-2-million-daily-players-putting-up-some-impressive-hours/

Sorry, it’s 3.2 and ‘daily players’ not concurrent. But still nice number. Anyway, it’s not about this game.

‘would have/would’ve been’ —> correct
‘would of been’ —> wrong

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Posted by: skullmount.1758

skullmount.1758


3 armor sets (the ascended) for the 3 classes, 9 if you consider the 2 new PvP armors for all 3 classes.. 2 weapon sets, ambrite and the hero weapons.

Technically your inaccurate as well. IF we are going by game release/birthday, it would only be the Ascended armor skins, since the pvp armors were release with the second feature patch which was after the games second ‘birthday’.
And I would only ever consider it as one armor set, not three since they can’t just release a set for one AC.

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Posted by: TheGrimm.5624

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Hello.
ArenaNet are you going to introduce us a new statistics for year 2 as it was after the first year of the GW2?
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-the-first-year/

Ok hadn’t seen that link before, this would be cool to see again. Lot of fun facts in there and this is the kind of things players across games share drawing people into a game.

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

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3 armor sets (the ascended) for the 3 classes, 9 if you consider the 2 new PvP armors for all 3 classes.. 2 weapon sets, ambrite and the hero weapons.

Technically your inaccurate as well. IF we are going by game release/birthday, it would only be the Ascended armor skins, since the pvp armors were release with the second feature patch which was after the games second ‘birthday’.
And I would only ever consider it as one armor set, not three since they can’t just release a set for one AC.

Yes, I noted above that post that the PvP armor didn’t actually count as it came out slightly after the birthday. And I did say in the post you quoted “if you consider the 2 new PvP armors” indicating there were reasons not to count it. I didn’t bother to repeat myself about how it didn’t actually count.

As for ascended, If they had only released one set, let’s say heavy, that would count as one armor set right? But they released one light armor set, one medium, one heavy. I count that as 3 sets.

Edit: they even could be counted as 6 sets as the female and male armors of each weight are not identical. Each has it’s own look and was designed separately.

(edited by Astral Projections.7320)

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Posted by: Emtiarbi.3281

Emtiarbi.3281

The first year was amazing compared to the second year.
They added some stuff, but if we compare it to the first year…

I don’t remember any significant addition on SPvP this second year.

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Posted by: Antara.3189

Antara.3189

~Insert impressive GW1 2nd year stats for comparison here~

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Posted by: Brave Mallyki.1563

Brave Mallyki.1563

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

2. “new weapons” are not “weapon skins”, rather player-asked-for new weapons
(pick anything of Polearms/Halberds, Whips, 2h Axes, Lances, Spears on land, Crossbows, Shotguns, Chains, Chained Morning Stars, Bladed boomerangs, Diamond Claws, FelChakrams, 4/6 Edged Shurikens, Trisection staves, Knuckles/Unarmed, and more…). Number of those is 0 alongside the rest.

So there you have your Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

I want a nuke, and a light saber, and a phase ray, and the noisy cricket. Wait we aren’t just naming a bunch of random weapons. Ooops. My bad.

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Posted by: met.9653

met.9653

Of course we want see year 2 stats cos numbers will be much lower then year 1

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Posted by: Korossive.7085

Korossive.7085

I want a nuke

That’s in the collector’s edition.

a light saber

Dreamthistle sword.

a phase ray

Guardian staff #1.

and the noisy cricket

I ……. what?

(edited by Korossive.7085)

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

2. “new weapons” are not “weapon skins”, rather player-asked-for new weapons
(pick anything of Polearms/Halberds, Whips, 2h Axes, Lances, Spears on land, Crossbows, Shotguns, Chains, Chained Morning Stars, Bladed boomerangs, Diamond Claws, FelChakrams, 4/6 Edged Shurikens, Trisection staves, Knuckles/Unarmed, and more…). Number of those is 0 alongside the rest.

So there you have your Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

I want a nuke, and a light saber, and a phase ray, and the noisy cricket. Wait we aren’t just naming a bunch of random weapons. Ooops. My bad.

Pretty sure the Noisy Cricket would be too overpowered, especially for WvW.

I’ll take a nuke though, if any are being handed out. There are some annoying risen in the cursed shore I would love to drop that on.

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Posted by: Brave Mallyki.1563

Brave Mallyki.1563

I want a nuke

That’s in the collector’s edition.

?

a light saber

Dreamthistle sword.

Thought we were talking about new weapons not skins.

a phase ray

Guardian staff #1.

Thought we were talking about new weapons not weapon skills.

and the noisy cricket

I ……. what?

I guess someone hasn’t watched Men in Black.

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PvP Rank – 151 – Dragon
WvW Rank – 1,120 – Silver Colonel

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Posted by: Einlanzer.1627

Einlanzer.1627

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

While there is a tad bit of hyperbole and dismissiveness in this post, it still really illustrates what a disaster this game is right now. I can’t believe anyone wonders why there’s so much snide negativity on the forums.

Especially when you realize that list is inaccurate.

If it is, it isn’t by much.

3 armor sets (the ascended) for the 3 classes, 9 if you consider the 2 new PvP armors for all 3 classes.. 2 weapon sets, ambrite and the hero weapons.

A list like that is only for the purpose of being “edgy” and sarcastic since it didn’t try for accuracy.

(And let’s ignore all the back pieces released since launch)
(And the part about human female animations removed. That’s an acknowledged bug so the part about removed is another inaccuracy)

If you think that’s a significant amount of content for a full calendar year, you are very oblivious to the standards created by other mmos.

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new armor pieces not from Gem Store: 0
  • # of new weapons: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

… and still counting

While there is a tad bit of hyperbole and dismissiveness in this post, it still really illustrates what a disaster this game is right now. I can’t believe anyone wonders why there’s so much snide negativity on the forums.

Especially when you realize that list is inaccurate.

If it is, it isn’t by much.

3 armor sets (the ascended) for the 3 classes, 9 if you consider the 2 new PvP armors for all 3 classes.. 2 weapon sets, ambrite and the hero weapons.

A list like that is only for the purpose of being “edgy” and sarcastic since it didn’t try for accuracy.

(And let’s ignore all the back pieces released since launch)
(And the part about human female animations removed. That’s an acknowledged bug so the part about removed is another inaccuracy)

If you think that’s a significant amount of content for a full calendar year, you are very oblivious to the standards created by other mmos.

Sigh

I never said it was significant. I was pointing out that saying that zero armor/weapons skins was not true and also not true was where he said animations were removed.

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Posted by: Schwarzseher.9873

Schwarzseher.9873

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new weapon types: 0
  • # of new weapon combinations: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of lore to legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of guild housings: 0
  • # of players in Cantha/Elona: 0
  • # of cape skins: 0
  • # of new usages for dungeon or fractals tokens: 0
  • # of characters who changed race: 0
  • # of ascended rings salvaged: 0
  • # of fixes for merge-kicking: 0
  • # of fixes to 25-conditions in PvE: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of attainable Halloween backpiece/Witch Hats: 0
  • # of Halloween 2014 weapon skins: 0
  • # of outfits converted to armor: 0
  • # of developments to Orr story: 0
  • # of developments to personal story: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of paths sold for gold: 254,269
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

Such wow.

So there you have your Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

EDIT: Updated for comments. PvP/WvW not even mentioned, not enough space.

You forgot to mention the stuff they cut out of the starter zones, the useless gem items, their attempts to sell more gems and the number of new bugs that came into the game and many more things. Hell if we would list everything up they messed up this year we would need at least 100 fully filled posts.

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Posted by: dlonie.6547

dlonie.6547

Posting the second year stats when we have access to the first year stats would be the opposite of “good PR”. So no, we won’t see them.

It’d sure be interesting to quantify the difference, though.

Case and point, we didn’t need megaservers to make a map feel full when that first infographic came out. The raw numbers certainly wouldn’t put the game in any sort of positive light.

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These forums need a downvote button

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These forums need a downvote button

I agree, it would be nice to downvote/hide useless posts that contribute nothing to the conversation.

>.>

Guild Wars 2: The Second Year in numbers?

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Posted by: Yoroiookami.3485

Yoroiookami.3485

Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

Lets go:

  • # of new weapon types: 0
  • # of new weapon combinations: 0
  • # of new weapon skills: 0
  • # of new races: 0
  • # of new professions: 0
  • # of new dungeons: 0
  • # of new Guild Missions: 0
  • # of new reachable dragons: 0
  • # of dyeable weapons: 0
  • # of new legendaries: 0
  • # of lore to legendaries: 0
  • # of craftable precursors: 0
  • # of guild housings: 0
  • # of players in Cantha/Elona: 0
  • # of cape skins: 0
  • # of new usages for dungeon or fractals tokens: 0
  • # of characters who changed race: 0
  • # of ascended rings salvaged: 0
  • # of fixes for merge-kicking: 0
  • # of fixes to 25-conditions in PvE: 0
  • # of attainable Tribal armor pieces: 0
  • # of attainable Halloween backpiece/Witch Hats: 0
  • # of Halloween 2014 weapon skins: 0
  • # of outfits converted to armor: 0
  • # of developments to Orr story: 0
  • # of developments to personal story: 0
  • # of new minis instead of any of this: 49
  • # of Human Female animations removed: 4
  • # of players requesting SAB: 6,945
  • # of times Jory called me “doll”: 1,988
  • # of paths sold for gold: 254,269
  • # of Fractal levels we took from players on reset: 8,984,441,658

Such wow.

So there you have your Player Based GW2 2nd Year Statistics

EDIT: Updated for comments. PvP/WvW not even mentioned, not enough space.

That is…sad…and also true.
They did add some awesome cosmetic things (for gems)though. Good job designers!

Guild Wars 2: The Second Year in numbers?

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Posted by: Ben K.6238

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Other things that weren’t added in 2014 include new gear tiers, mounts, open-world PKing, DPS meters, server merges… and those are just a handful of the dubious things some players did ask for.

That is a long and very cherry-picked list of things, 80% of which have never bothered me personally – so I have to wonder how many other players aren’t interested in “lore to legendaries” etc. either. Other items are being addressed now or in the near future, and plenty are just plain wrong.

If I’m going to compare 2014 to 2013, it’s added a whole lot more story and a bit of interesting content (I do wish there was more, but it’s improving) instead of the temporary stuff we saw in 2013 and the rather-too-permanent ascended grind.

What’s missing is a needed update/overhaul of PvP/WvW. Fingers crossed that’s on the way.

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Posted by: Cole Eyre.8471

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I asked for preferential treatment and got none. I wasn’t banking on actually getting it, though.

Something I did ask for was an expansion. Sadly, I didn’t get that. But next year is another year and I still feel hope in my heart for a huge heaping handful of new perm content.

Also, I didn’t get rifles for rangers or polearms for warriors. I think I actually logged a ticket requesting both of those.

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Posted by: masterJP.5048

masterJP.5048

Other things that weren’t added in 2014 include new gear tiers, mounts, open-world PKing, DPS meters, server merges… and those are just a handful of the dubious things some players did ask for.

Ascended Armour was added , not sure is in 2013 or 2014 BUT i promise you people that have it won’t like a new gear tier at all even people without is wont like it because it would be more work than ascended. Server merges = Megaserver Not sure what open-world pking is but if it is open world pvp , most people dont want that either. Chose between Mounts or waypoints. DPS meter I gotta give to you.

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