How is GW2 doing?
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I think the next expansion will decide the future of this game. It’s very critical to make up for the shortcomings of HoT. The content was good but there just wasn’t enough of it and a LOT of missed opportunities in the story. We only got 3 real maps and people were expecting a lot more than that. If the next expansion doesn’t go above and beyond then I expect a lot of people will be leaving.
I worries me that these forums seem way less active than they used to be. The front page used to cycle through topics in less than an hour. Now I can post a new topic and get no replies and it will still be on the front page two days later. There are threads on the front page of class forums that are more than a week old and you can’t reply to them without checking the bypass bump box.
A lot of people say the game is great, and maybe it is. But the audience is definitely shrinking…
This.
Reddit seems pretty busy. Maybe it’s a forum thing more than an audience thing.
Free to play players can’t post on the forums. I keep bringing this up, and a lot of people ignore it, but it’s a fact.
Unless people don’t think that people play this game as free to play, which I can’t imagine, the forums can’t really be an accurate gauge of the in game population.
Aside from that, I know a number of people who used to post here all the time who stopped due to various infractions they didn’t feel they deserved.
Yeah, the forums became a very hostile place to many that were critical of of certain things. I only recently started back in both the game and the forums. That being said, there has been a big amount of bleeding of veteran players in the game and maps are constantly closing a forcing players to new ones just to feel “full” and people have to use lfg if they want to get any serious content done as just being on a map with people won’t assure that the thing will be successful anymore.
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I think the next expansion will decide the future of this game. It’s very critical to make up for the shortcomings of HoT. The content was good but there just wasn’t enough of it and a LOT of missed opportunities in the story. We only got 3 real maps and people were expecting a lot more than that. If the next expansion doesn’t go above and beyond then I expect a lot of people will be leaving.
I worries me that these forums seem way less active than they used to be. The front page used to cycle through topics in less than an hour. Now I can post a new topic and get no replies and it will still be on the front page two days later. There are threads on the front page of class forums that are more than a week old and you can’t reply to them without checking the bypass bump box.
A lot of people say the game is great, and maybe it is. But the audience is definitely shrinking…
This.
Reddit seems pretty busy. Maybe it’s a forum thing more than an audience thing.
Free to play players can’t post on the forums. I keep bringing this up, and a lot of people ignore it, but it’s a fact.
Unless people don’t think that people play this game as free to play, which I can’t imagine, the forums can’t really be an accurate gauge of the in game population.
Aside from that, I know a number of people who used to post here all the time who stopped due to various infractions they didn’t feel they deserved.
Yeah, the forums became a very hostile place to many that were critical of of certain things. I only recently started back in both the game and the forums. That being said, there has been a big amount of bleeding of veteran players in the game and maps are constantly closing a forcing players to new ones just to feel “full” and people have to use lfg if they want to get any serious content done as just being on a map with people won’t assure that the thing will be successful anymore.
Maps are “constantly closing” because big groups leave them after doing what they’re there to do. You can get a long time without a map closing, and then you hit Sparkfly fen after Tequatl is over when five, six maps are filled with people and then they all leave at once. That’s what causes map closings.
In HoT it’s more pronounced because the metas rotate frequently through four maps. So yes, there are often more maps than are needed for the off times of each map and they close.
That’s zero evidence of people leaving the game, or the number of people playing it. In fact, it’s arguably the opposite. For that many maps to close that means there had to be enough people on the maps to fill that many maps.
As an aside, another time you’ll find maps closing a lot is when there’s dailies in those maps, or at guild mission times, when there are guild missions in maps. A few big guilds doing missions can spawn multiple maps that are no longer needed when those missions finish.
Well I returned to the game after a 2 year hiatus and I’m having lots of fun.
Welcome back cesmode, I remember your name lol.
Right now:
- HoT content is good, though not as huge as it should have been.
- There’s raids if you are into that.
- A few new legendaries.
- Fractals are a lot better.
- Spvp is generally better (imo).
- Living world continues with new maps. (new episode in a week or so)
- WvW is… eh… kinda dead from what I can tell. Certainly not where it used to be.
In future:
- Probably another 4 living world episodes before next expansion.
- Next expansion probably not till next year.
- Generally expect a new living world episode every 2-3 months.
- Generally expect a new raid wing… maybe… every 3 or so months.
- No clue if they even care about breathing life back in WvW.
- Expect a new Spvp map every once in a blue moon.
- Expect them to continue pretending esports will be a thing one day.
Conclusions:
I think the next expansion will decide the future of this game. It’s very critical to make up for the shortcomings of HoT. The content was good but there just wasn’t enough of it and a LOT of missed opportunities in the story. We only got 3 real maps and people were expecting a lot more than that. If the next expansion doesn’t go above and beyond then I expect a lot of people will be leaving.
I worries me that these forums seem way less active than they used to be. The front page used to cycle through topics in less than an hour. Now I can post a new topic and get no replies and it will still be on the front page two days later. There are threads on the front page of class forums that are more than a week old and you can’t reply to them without checking the bypass bump box.
A lot of people say the game is great, and maybe it is. But the audience is definitely shrinking…
I think GW2 is at it’s best when it’s really challenging, it’s really easy for me to have a cycle of the same things that i do everytime i log-in, the next expansion has a lot to live up to if GW2 will survive in the long run. I hope the next expansion delivers because the story for HoT was not very gripping for me, more purpose needs to be felt in the story i think, if i’m going to continue playing instead of going through the motions.
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