Guild Wars 2

not dead at all.

and its ok not to see zergs everywhere.
it makes the world better/ more intense.

contested waypoints etc, to me they are cool.

first few weeks were a joke, one boss in a DE could have like 20+ people going at it; ridiculous.
now its parties of 2-3-4-5 and its just cooler overall.

When I started playing GW2 one month after it was launched, the server I was in had many player in the maps. I started with a Sylvari Elementalist, hence Caledon Forest has many people, off-peak and peak period. Moved to Kessex Hills next, and boy, it was crowded. The broken bridge event and the Centaur Overlord event. Players I meet and interesting events and the zergs of players running from one side of the map to the other. Then my friend who also was playing (he no longer plays GW2), asked me to move to his server. I moved. Boy, it was even better than my previous server. I played daily for 5-6 hours since I had to go to work, on weekends, I play the whole day about 10-12 hours.

Slowly, I noticed there are less and less players on the maps. Over a 3 month period. Now, on my server, most of the players are in Lion’s Arch waiting for the “FoTM lv 9999999999 lf3m”….etc…. kind of message. On the maps, most of the time it’s me and the gazillion centaurs, risen, sons of svanir…etc
On occasion you get 1 or 2 other players trying to get that skill point that you can’t solo since that veteran is most likely insanely OP to a low level, so you need backup. Sometimes, some events I have tried to solo, to no avail. It is impossible to solo some events. So, i ignore that event or skill point or vista and come back later to do it. Sometimes I get lucky and there is someone there doing it, so i just joined it.

Now, I have my near end-game character (i have 40% of the mats for a legendary, still getting there.) and it is so lonely on the maps. There is hardly anyone around. Only at certain maps you will see players.
Fireheart Rise at the Gates of Flame
Sparkfly Fen at Splintered Coast where Tequatl the Sunless spawns.
Frostgorge Sound at where the Claw of Jormag spawns
Blazeridge Steppes at where The Shatterer spawns.
and at Orr at some areas where Risen continuously are attacking the Pact’s area.

These are the area with many players and alleged bots mostly hangs out.

The low level areas, most players are at Queendale.
At Kessex Hills, most at the Broken Bridge and the Great Overlord camp
and some other areas I can’t remember the names.

So, this game is in my opinion losing some players and gaining very little new players. And it has only been like 5 months.
Like my friend, he doesn’t want to play anyone and just quit playing since Christmas, never seen him logged-on since after Tixx landed in LA and running the dungeon twice with him.

So, this game may not be dying like some people have mentioned in this thread, but it’s not growing either.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for answering this player’s questions. As the discussion has run its course, we are closing this thread.

Thanks for your understanding.