Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

This may have been brought up before, but I just realized we can get a number on game population based upon tracking our progress in the leaderboards.

Granted we don’t know what that number will mean exactly, but it’ll be related to the population of Guild Wars 2 accounts per server region and game type.

Has anyone tried thinking through this so we can get an idea of how many people there are in each server region doing each game type?

Not that this would matter to the average player, but I’m really curious.

It was done with the SPvP population after they reset the leaderboards. I don’t see how you would be able to tell PvE population by their achievement points though.

Fernling.1729:

It was done with the SPvP population after they reset the leaderboards. I don’t see how you would be able to tell PvE population by their achievement points though.

I think you’d just have a very wide range ballpark figure with PvE achievement points. It looks like they only tell you your in the 90th percentile before you become part of the top 1000 ranks. However you might be able to do some analysis on the trend in the difference of rank points from the top ranks to the bottom ranks in order to gather a more accurate number.

Shockwave.1230:

Fernling.1729:

It was done with the SPvP population after they reset the leaderboards. I don’t see how you would be able to tell PvE population by their achievement points though.

I think you’d just have a very wide range ballpark figure with PvE achievement points. It looks like they only tell you your in the 90th percentile before you become part of the top 1000 ranks. However you might be able to do some analysis on the trend in the difference of rank points from the top ranks to the bottom ranks in order to gather a more accurate number.

We won’t be able to determine the active population though. We know that there was over 3 million copies of the game sold, but will likely never know how many of those are active players.

Fernling.1729:

Shockwave.1230:

Fernling.1729:

It was done with the SPvP population after they reset the leaderboards. I don’t see how you would be able to tell PvE population by their achievement points though.

I think you’d just have a very wide range ballpark figure with PvE achievement points. It looks like they only tell you your in the 90th percentile before you become part of the top 1000 ranks. However you might be able to do some analysis on the trend in the difference of rank points from the top ranks to the bottom ranks in order to gather a more accurate number.

We won’t be able to determine the active population though. We know that there was over 3 million copies of the game sold, but will likely never know how many of those are active players.

That’s likely true the leaderboards for PvE probably represent the entire population of game accounts, and not active accounts.

It’s interesting to see the achievement point spreads vs the percentiles