Guild Wars 2

So I was standing at the Norn Spawn area (starting Zone) today, watching endless droves of New Players come through.

My jaw literally dropped, I wish I had done a tally because in that one map there must have been several hundred come through in just a couple of hours.

Now imagine all the separate maps and the different starting zones, GW2 must have thousands of new members and give it time potentially millions.

Anyway, is there a way of seeing amount of existing account or amount of new players joining?

So happy to see all these newbies running around
Makes me sort of jealous, I wish I could experience the mystery and excitement of the game for the first time, all over again.

p.s. Where’s My Royal Guard Outfit?!? lol

Question is how many are actually new and how many are existing players trying out free accounts, which is what I’d be doing if I was home.

When MMO changes its business model you know the existing active player base has shrinked. But that’s all to blame on Anet for their neglect . Just saying..

Interesting. I think I’ll make a key runner to see if I see hordes of new chars in there.

Just wait until people come back for HoT, I DO know good friends who did play and left after 12-18 months and will , most likely, NEVER come back (had people in my friendslist who were 15+k AP 2 years ago asked for an exansion then and left….due to EVERYBODY saying this would never happen…), but I do hope some of my friends and guildies form the last year will return.

I’m nearing 19k AP 2 years later, and will likely have 19,5k when HoT arrives….But I just hope friends will return… It’s empty with the old guard in my friends list without even times of last login….

In all cases….. We’ll see… I left one of my old guilds 6 months ago cause there were only 2 officers left, no leaders, no co-leaders, no members, We tried and retained all old people in the hope of thier return, which would seemingly become to be never, now 2 years after the majority left I just hope the guild will reblossom, but I know it is but an illusion.

When i left multiple very active people and the leaders were inactive for1yr +….

It’s how it goes, I guess…

They’ll return to a different interface, different trait system and only marginal changed/ or new content in the living world, Let’s see if HoT can entertain them for more then 1 year.

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Just wait until people come back for HoT, I DO know good friends who did play and left after 12-18 months and will , most likely, NEVER come back (had people in my friendslist who were 15+k AP 2 years ago asked for an exansion then and left….due to EVERYBODY saying this would never happen…), but I do hope some of my friends and guildies form the last year will return.

I’m nearing 19k AP 2 years later, and will likely have 19,5k when HoT arrives….But I just hope friends will return… It’s empty with the old guard in my friends list without even times of last login….

In all cases….. We’ll see… I left one of my old guilds 6 months ago cause there were only 2 officers left, no leaders, no co-leaders, no members, We tried and retained all old people in the hope of thier return, which would seemingly become to be never, now 2 years after the majority left I just hope the guild will reblossom, but I know it is but an illusion.

When i left multiple very active people and the leaders were inactive for1yr +….

It’s how it goes, I guess…

They’ll return to a different interface, different trait system and only marginal changed/ or new content in the living world, Let’s see if HoT can entertain them for more then 1 year.

Empty guilds is a complaint in every MMO. Even WoW has threads in its forum saying how they’ve joined guild after guild and over time each member list grows dark, until they leave the guild also and have to find another guild. It’s just a fact of MMO life. There is a constant churn of new people coming in and older accounts stopping playing. My original guild of members from Guild Wars 1 went dark also and now only a handful of them still log in regularly. I expect every one here can tell a similar story.

I’m not complaining, I just hope they’ll return. But I am a gaming veteran as well and I doubt the majority will. I have great hope for the future for gw2 as a game.

My old gw1 guild fused with a different guild and is still a blossoming guild with 475 member and only 30 away/holidays… I left it well over 20 months ago though, only rejoiing it after request for a few months, to support the leaders…

I have been co-leader in 1 guild and officer in 4: 3 guilds died, of which all 3 guilds were destoyed by the actual leaders (emptying the guild (and leaving in 2 cases) due to unknown (at least to me) reasons… (each time a fully VI guild with everything unlocked) I saw well over 8 million influence vanish due to people having issues with themselves, the guild or the world….

I left 1 guild due to the leader making decisions I couldn’t agree with (in this specific case with 5 other officers and 15 guildies)

I am still officer in 1 guild, I finally found a Guild in which I trust the people and am glad to be there, This guild has 185 members and of this list 100 are marked away/vacation but ALL have said to return at a given point in time….