Guild Wars 2

Protoavis.9107:

CHIPS.6018:

Maps are empty because there are no alts. Everyone is farming to trying to max gear their one single level 80 character, and there are only a few places to farm.

this pretty much. As it is right now, the only reason to make alts is to make grinding things like Dragonite faster (alt’s don’t get the bonus chest, but the normal chest spawns for them, the one with dragonite) or make a zerker warrior to grind dungeons faster. The game is becoming less and less alt friendly.

This is not the only reason to make alts. I’m not sure that most people make alts just for financial gain. Most people I know make alts to experience different personal stories, change up the professions they play, and just take a break from their main. Some people, like me, make alts because they’re actually playing a role (which doesn’t mean I’m RPing). I simply have characters that have certain themes and the game becomes completing those themes. I know a lot of people who make characters for this reason.

There are plenty of people who have more than 10 characters. They don’t have them for financial gain.

This said, the current trend it is making it harder for people who play a certain way to have alts, because they feel they must have BIS gear, and that probably does contribute to less people in the mid level zones.