Guild Wars 2

I am wondering if anyone else is feeling this way in game or if there is something that I am missing out on. I played WoW for years and as many people know, you can easily spot recognizable players, names, guilds, etc. I am missing that here. Very rarely do I run into the same people from one zone to the next. I am missing that feeling of being within a community. Is the world just “too big” for that sort of thing?

The world is big, but I, personally, am recognizing… tons of people. There’s the beginnings of a community feel on my server, but we’re still in a hectic “Screw this, I’m going to <Amazing WvW Server>” transfer phase of people disappearing.

Yeah, I’ve been running into a low of people I recognize from before as well.

I think one of the things about WoW is that the game itself tended to herd everyone into one section of the game. When BC released, everything before it was a ghost town. When WotLK released, everything in vanilla and BC was a ghost town. When Cata released, well, you get the idea.

GW2 doesn’t do this, and as much as people try to cling to their former “endgame” mentalities and stick to one area (Orr), you’ll find that the rest of us that actually know how this game works spread out and doing content all over the game world.

If you ever want that “community” feel, I’d suggest Lion’s Arch, though in many servers, you’re likely to get stuck in an Overflow for a bit before you can end up on your server.

Maybe I’m spoilt by being in the same guild I was in in GW. I don’t really look out for players outwith my guildies

If I see peeps looking for one when I’m in towns I’ll try to get them invited. But most are just fellow spammers to me.

Yeah, if your not in a guild, you might as well be playing with bots, running to DE to DE in Orr

They complete removed any need for communication outside of pvp.