Guild Wars 2

Siphaed.9235:

Geemo.6018:

This game is beyond homogenized. No matter what you spec there are minimal differences between zero points and max points in any trait line. I have to keep pointing out the fact that I can see why 3 million bought the game, but less than 500k even play it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_Wars_2

Concurrency: operating or occurring at the same time

Congrats on linking a wikia page with information stats from November 2012,…over 9 months ago. Care for anything more recent? Because it was just a month ago when A.Net gave their mid-year update that they mentioned they have 2.5million users log in weekly. So….ya, …..you’re wrong.

You should read the news links I posted a bit further up if you’re after current information. Yes they don’t have solid figures but I’ll take a statement from the lead designer regaurding current and future populations over a random wiki thing.

And aye, population is fine. On the rise actually.

Numbers can prove or disprove anything.

Concurrency is misleading because everything depends on exactly what time of the day/month/year that someone sampled the numbers. Midnight PDT will be different than midnight Sydney time.

Look at it this way (simplified, I know, but good for illustration): In general, most people own a car. Also in general, most people are not in their cars. So, if 7 million people own cars, there may only be 100K of them actually in the car on the road at any given time. It doesn’t mean that those who are not in their car won’t use them today, it means that for whatever reason (i,e, work, life, sleep, school, etc) they are not actually in their car. Give them a few hours, and those who are in their cars now won’t be, and those who aren’t now will be stuck in traffic.

This is a game, people. It’s not meant to be “used” 24/7. It’s a way to relax. Some will log in for hours at a time and some will log in for a few moments. Saying that only 300K out of a million people are logged in at any given time isn’t an accurate portrayal of the actual proportion of owners to players.