Guild Wars 2

With several high profile MMO’s releasing content on the 4th (Tera, Aion, WoW, ArcheAge, etc) how much do you feel the new content will influence in-game traffic?

I heared QueueAge has been renamed now to GrindAge .. or will this just happen at the 4th ?

Beldin.5498:

I heared QueueAge has been renamed now to GrindAge .. or will this just happen at the 4th ?

Maybe they should call it LaborPointAge.

Remember remember the 5th of November

Unnoticeable effect on traffic. I think most people only return to check on MMOs when they aren’t currently playing another MMO.

Beldin.5498:

I heared QueueAge has been renamed now to GrindAge .. or will this just happen at the 4th ?

I thought it was GoldSpamAge, also known as New Korea

I could have sworn it was called Farmage. As for main topic, I expect it to be same as usual. Lots of people doing the new content then it will die down alittle(not in a bad way).

rapthorne.7345:

With several high profile MMO’s releasing content on the 4th (Tera, Aion, WoW, ArcheAge, etc) how much do you feel the new content will influence in-game traffic?

Not at all.

I’ve played all of those and the upcoming content doesnt entice me nearly as much as coming home from work and pvping/pveing with a cup of coffee in the evening.
Pretty sure the zergs wont shrink, the new players will continue to sign in, and the players that have not figured out something to do that isnt mindlessgrind will continue to be nonexistent.

There’s content here on Nov 4th too, btw.

WoW is the only high profile MMO on that list. Some players will leave GW2 for a while to play Warlords, but it’s probably not going to change much.

Belidos.3704:

Beldin.5498:

I heared QueueAge has been renamed now to GrindAge .. or will this just happen at the 4th ?

I thought it was GoldSpamAge, also known as New Korea

It has just been renamed to CheatAge i guess :
http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?94585-Reddit-Cheats-Cheats-and-more-cheats..-Craft-WTF-ever-you-want/page2

VladeKR.9851:

Remember remember the 5th of November

Gun powder, Treason and Plot.

I’ve been here for the release of a lot of MMOs. Neverwinter, Rift going free to play, ESO, Wildstar…none of them have made any kind of real dent in the game’s population.

We did lose a guildie to ESO, and another to SWToR, but that’s a relatively small percentage of the population. We’ve lost no one at all to Archeage.

My son plays it and keeps me informed. If half the stuff he’s telling me is true (he tends to exaggerate), then that game isn’t going to end up with a huge following. The amount of hacks, and gold farmers and scammers is truly huge. Griefing is part of the game. Reporting people is an in game strategy and they have to play labor points to clear their names.

That game is not going to attract this game’s audience for any length of time. It’ll be a while before an MMORPG comes out that will. The next one isn’t even due this year.

You forgot the best of them all – EVE Online is also releasing their Phoebe expansion/update on the 4th (I wonder whether they nicked the idea off Anet, actually) and I am going to be SERIOUSLY torn as to which game I am going to play.

(UNLIMITED SKILL QUEUES HELL YEAH!)

Jaggedrain.6923:

You forgot the best of them all – EVE Online is also releasing their Phoebe expansion/update on the 4th (I wonder whether they nicked the idea off Anet, actually) and I am going to be SERIOUSLY torn as to which game I am going to play.

(UNLIMITED SKILL QUEUES HELL YEAH!)

Eve is never going to seriously affect Guild Wars 2. It’s too hard core, too sci fi, too spreadsheet. It requires too much of a time investment to get anywhere, or even learn.

It’s like saying people who like golf are going to leave that game to play football. Well some might…but most…probably not.

I will never understand people who play mmo’s based on some kind of checklist. It’s a game, if you like the game and find things to do in said game, it’s good for you. If you and the game don’t “click”, it does not matter if it has everything on your checklist, you won’t spend time in it.
On the other hand people will forgive a lot if they find a certain game enjoyable.
Thus new mmo launches don’t matter much.

Hi everyone,

Since this thread will inevitably turn into an off topic discussion (and has already started to do so), we’ll now close it.

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