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Posted by: pdemo.8312

pdemo.8312

Is this game a popular game and is the population stable or dying

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Posted by: Doctor Orderly MD PhD DDS.7625

Doctor Orderly MD PhD DDS.7625

Most of the GW2 population has died and has been reincarnated as mindless zergdrones.

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Posted by: Nage.1520

Nage.1520

Games population is fine. It’s certainly not dying. It’s probably not growing either. There are areas of the world on certain servers that aren’t often used, but if you’re going where the action is, there’s plenty of people.

Hell, it takes a couple of minutes to find a group for pretty much any dungeon at any hour. At least any explorable mode dungeon (the rewarding ones lol).

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

please ignore the first respond. It is well known that Blizzard is giving monthly access away for those spreading misinformation here.

Too bad for them that this game is much better then their crap AND allready free to play. No need to troll another games forum.

The population is surely not what it was in the first few months. As always there where a lot of game hoppers (the people that play a game for 3-4 months and then move on to the next one). On top of that, there is now more attention to the higher level area’s then the lower level maps.

However, looking at my own server (EU-Gandara) I have seen a steady population for the last 12 months. It’s not changing a lot and there are more then enough people to have fun with. Some starter zones are a bit died out (kitten you Queensdale champtrain!), but you can have a lot of fun.

Arise, ye farmers of all nations
Arise, opressed of Tyria!

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Posted by: CureForLiving.5360

CureForLiving.5360

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle, I’d say the population has gone through it’s boom and dip and is fairly stable now.

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Posted by: fadeaway.2807

fadeaway.2807

My personal opinion is that almost everybody who wanted skilled high end PvP has left, and almost everybody who wanted challenging PvE has left. We are now left with events where you spam 1 to win, WvW where you spam 1 to win, and some GvG guilds who are still going.

Sales were almost a quarter of what they were in Q4 2012 which is understandable since the game had been out over a year, but up slightly on Q3 2013 so the trend is good.

Still, 31 mil USD in Q4 sales is equivalent to slightly under 700,000 monthly subscribers if you assume a $15 monthly fee. So personally I wouldn’t say it’s doing too great. Without more info on the trend of box sales and gem-store purchases (are players spending more, or are more players spending less?) it’s hard to know more.

Source
http://global.ncsoft.com/global/ir/earnings.aspx

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Posted by: Seven Star Stalker.1740

Seven Star Stalker.1740

please ignore the first respond. It is well known that Blizzard is giving monthly access away for those spreading misinformation here.

Too bad for them that this game is much better then their crap AND allready free to play. No need to troll another games forum.

The population is surely not what it was in the first few months. As always there where a lot of game hoppers (the people that play a game for 3-4 months and then move on to the next one). On top of that, there is now more attention to the higher level area’s then the lower level maps.

However, looking at my own server (EU-Gandara) I have seen a steady population for the last 12 months. It’s not changing a lot and there are more then enough people to have fun with. Some starter zones are a bit died out (kitten you Queensdale champtrain!), but you can have a lot of fun.

Lol?

I highly doubt this. And I find it dubious and a foolish attempt to insult the poster. How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

To answer the OP:

GW is reasonably stable at this time. It’s going to jump in the Chinese servers, but that’s on their own servers so that won’t really affect us per say.

I ? Karkas.

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Posted by: uknortherner.2670

uknortherner.2670

I highly doubt this. And I find it dubious and a foolish attempt to insult the poster. How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

Because we seem to get this kind of thread started almost weekly? Anyone can create an account to do a bit of trolling you know.

I stole a special snowflake’s future by exercising my democratic right to vote.

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Posted by: CureForLiving.5360

CureForLiving.5360

How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

A noticeable lack of ‘?’ perhaps?

EDIT: oddly enough the forums don’t seem to support reversed question mark.

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Posted by: ZudetGambeous.9573

ZudetGambeous.9573

I highly doubt this. And I find it dubious and a foolish attempt to insult the poster. How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

Because we seem to get this kind of thread started almost weekly? Anyone can create an account to do a bit of trolling you know.

well anyone that spends $50 to buy the game…

To the OP. The game seems pretty stable population wise at this point. People will argue til the end of time about what that population is, but as long as you play on one of the big 3 (BG/JQ/TC) you will have plenty of people to play with. Most of the other servers are struggling but the only thing that effects are the major events like Teq and Wurm.

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

I highly doubt this. And I find it dubious and a foolish attempt to insult the poster. How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

Because we seem to get this kind of thread started almost weekly? Anyone can create an account to do a bit of trolling you know.

well anyone that spends $50 to buy the game…

To the OP. The game seems pretty stable population wise at this point. People will argue til the end of time about what that population is, but as long as you play on one of the big 3 (BG/JQ/TC) you will have plenty of people to play with. Most of the other servers are struggling but the only thing that effects are the major events like Teq and Wurm.

Actually, people who have used a trial account (or even bought the game and asked for a refund a week later) can still post here.

I know blizzard isn’t really paying people, they are low, but not that low. What I’m saying is that I trully don’t understand that people that dislike this game so much, still come here on the forum to troll around.

I tried WoW once. I didn’t like it. But I don’t go to their forum.

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Arise, opressed of Tyria!

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Posted by: Charak.9761

Charak.9761

I have to guest from CD to BG/JQ for events

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Posted by: Shirogatsu.3150

Shirogatsu.3150

Lol?

I highly doubt this. And I find it dubious and a foolish attempt to insult the poster. How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

Look at his activity https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/pdemo-8312/showposts
He creates same thread “Game is dying/is this game dead/I heard it is dead” each month repeatedly.
It suspicious, to say the least

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Posted by: MasterKitty.8205

MasterKitty.8205

Lol?

I highly doubt this. And I find it dubious and a foolish attempt to insult the poster. How do you know he wasn’t joking around?

Look at his activity https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/pdemo-8312/showposts
He creates same thread “Game is dying/is this game dead/I heard it is dead” each month repeatedly.
It suspicious, to say the least

Nice catch! Now that I look at it, it’s really a little bit suspicious. Some posts aren’t even recent. Yet he constantly makes topics where he asks of the state of the game.

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Posted by: Fernling.1729

Fernling.1729

The game averages about 400 viewers on twitch. If you want to take anything from that.

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Posted by: Hidden.3975

Hidden.3975

please ignore the first respond. It is well known that Blizzard is giving monthly access away for those spreading misinformation here.

Oh dear, let’s get out our tin foil hats. What a ridiculous statement but allow me to point out some reasons why your logic is flawed.

1) GW2 is NOT competition for WoW, I know when playing it’s easy to develop loyalty for a game, but accept that this game doesn’t even come close to making WoW sweat, so why on earth would they pay people to spout rubbish about this game?

2) Perhaps the biggest point, every game has a horde of fan boys, and an even bigger horde of complainers. In my experience, most people on the forums are complaining because they are often the self entitled niche of a community that has become disenfranchised with the game. The positive players that are loving the game, are largely just playing it. Only 1 in 20 probably visit these forums.

That said, with complainers, whiners and trolls on every single game including this one, why on earth would they invest in the need to get people to complain about it? Are you really that deluded in believing this game is THAT good? (No game is).

3) Finally, I doubt you have a shred of evidence to support your claim, nor any common sense to truly think this through logically. Anyone who comes to such conclusions which is so out there probably disregards everything as a conspiracy anyways, and should probably step away from the computer and step outside for more than 5 minutes every once and a while.

Oh, and no I don’t work for WoW, or any video game company, I’m not that lucky.

Maybe sometimes people are just trolling/ or just plain dumb, in my experience one should never underestimate humanities capacity for stupidity.

TH

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Posted by: Yargesh.4965

Yargesh.4965

Don’t you post this every couple of weeks? What are you hoping for?

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Posted by: WingLegacy.7159

WingLegacy.7159

Maybe he a dev from other mmo trying to shake Gw2.

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Posted by: Reverence.6915

Reverence.6915

The fastest selling MMO in history surely isn’t dying.

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Posted by: Einlanzer.1627

Einlanzer.1627

You can tell that the game is reasonably active just from the forums, although I’m sure it isn’t doing as well as they were hoping it would.

Year 1 was marred by bad resource management and very poor community interaction. Too many resources were put into gimmicky temporary content instead of the far more important areas (especially for year one) of substantial permanent content, new features, profession balancing (way too slow), and bug fixes.

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Posted by: kta.6502

kta.6502

Is this game a popular game and is the population stable or dying

This game is much loved, but alot of people are on the busy servers like Jade Quarry and Blackgate.

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Posted by: Yaos.4528

Yaos.4528

As every poster can tell you, all MMOs are dieing, and have been for the last decade. Sorry to give you bad news.