Guild Wars 2

ANet locked the previous topic after giving an ambiguous, apparently self-contradictory answer that did nothing but stir up more debate.

CC Eva wrote:

“Connor, when you see a server FULL means that it is full from people actually playing there at the moment, independently of where did they create their accounts. For example, if a player creates an account in Vizunah Square and then moves to Baruch Bay, then all the characters of this player will go to Baruch Bay and he will be counted among the total amount of players of Baruch.”

The statement “when you see a server FULL means that it is full from people actually playing there at the moment” implies the status counts players online. This would be clear and unambiguous if that was all ANet said. No one would be able to say otherwise.

As it stands, detractors then point out that the paragraph immediately following talks about accounts on servers:

“For example, if a player creates an account in Vizunah Square and then moves to Baruch Bay, then all the characters of this player will go to Baruch Bay and he will be counted among the total amount of players of Baruch.”

Why? Why would you possibly think that is a good example? That is not an example at all of “server population status is players online”, the example is entirely about “active accounts on a server”!

The entire debate (over at least 3 other forums I’ve checked) is about if the server population status is about players online or active accounts (on that server). It’s like you guys are either not paying attention to the topic or to what you’re saying!

Responses from another thread:
Damien94 wrote:

You have to read carefully. Look at this:

For example, if a player creates an account in Vizunah Square and then moves to Baruch Bay, then all the characters of this player will go to Baruch Bay and he will be counted among the total amount of players of Baruch.

Server status is still referring total player population. It does not mean currently logged in players. For example, even though I quit playing over a month ago, my account still counts towards the population of Sea of Sorrows.

Katzachan wrote:

It’s nice to see Arenanet finally confirming what we already knew, the server full meaning was always characters created. We can finally put this stupid idea it was currently playing numbers to rest.

NicoGrimm wrote:

Damien brings up a good point. The post is kinda weirdly worded, and can be taken either way.

Etharin wrote:

A community rep for a company that outsources all CS probably doesn’t have a clue to what it really means anyway which is why they couldn’t just straight up say it’s the amount of players logged into a server.

mlacen wrote:

Contradictory information directly from Arena net themselves.

Was it really so hard to just (as Etharin puts it) straight out say it’s players currently logged in, without adding extraneous paragraphs?

Answer was edited. I guess the server status is about accounts on that server, not people currently online on that server.

CC Eva wrote:

Connor, when you see a server FULL means that the people who’ve chosen that server as theirs, or players who have moved to that particular server, have reached the cap, independently of where did they create their accounts.