Guild Wars 2

Does anyone know how many people max can be in a zone exactly?

Ridiculously little it seems if you compare it to other MMOs that even don’t have such small zones.

Exactly, No. Aproximately we have tested on Blackgate during the worm event to be around 150. The reason why they are so low is because the zones are smaller, when you have bigger zones you expect players to be more spread out easing the load on the servers. The reason why we have smaller zones is the overflow systems, that was designed to avoid sitting in a que.