Guild Wars 2

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, although I doubt it’ll be answered this time either. WvW servers at the bottom rung are being really hurt by the gem costs. It costs about 50 gold to move to a losing server… where’s the incentive for players? There isn’t one. I just wanted to know why, after several weeks of there being low medium high and very high servers, all the servers are sitting at high or very high even when they look like graveyards.

I’m convinced they stay at “Very High” all the time now, even when there’s one person per server. Seriously though, I literally played for 9 hours non-stop about a week ago and I traveled through each and every map so I could explore the world. Guess how many people I saw? 6 people. 6 people in 9 hours is unbelievable, even for GW2. Oh yeah, 4 of those people were in LA when I went there to do some selling. Yet, when I logged off and checked my server population, it still said “Very High”. At that point I was basically jumping up and down yelling BS! BS! while pointing my finger at the screen. And yeah, my server’s WvW is hopelessly gone forever. Nobody plays it anymore and I can’t gather enough people to even take a small tower. I’d like an answer to this as well, but Anet removed a similar thread like this, so I don’t know if we will get one.

Galtrix.7369:

I’m convinced they stay at “Very High” all the time now, even when there’s one person per server. Seriously though, I literally played for 9 hours non-stop about a week ago and I traveled through each and every map so I could explore the world. Guess how many people I saw? 6 people. 6 people in 9 hours is unbelievable, even for GW2. Oh yeah, 4 of those people were in LA when I went there to do some selling. Yet, when I logged off and checked my server population, it still said “Very High”. At that point I was basically jumping up and down yelling BS! BS! while pointing my finger at the screen. And yeah, my server’s WvW is hopelessly gone forever. Nobody plays it anymore and I can’t gather enough people to even take a small tower. I’d like an answer to this as well, but Anet removed a similar thread like this, so I don’t know if we will get one.

Maybe other players are purposely avoiding you.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Galtrix.7369:

I’m convinced they stay at “Very High” all the time now, even when there’s one person per server. Seriously though, I literally played for 9 hours non-stop about a week ago and I traveled through each and every map so I could explore the world. Guess how many people I saw? 6 people. 6 people in 9 hours is unbelievable, even for GW2. Oh yeah, 4 of those people were in LA when I went there to do some selling. Yet, when I logged off and checked my server population, it still said “Very High”. At that point I was basically jumping up and down yelling BS! BS! while pointing my finger at the screen. And yeah, my server’s WvW is hopelessly gone forever. Nobody plays it anymore and I can’t gather enough people to even take a small tower. I’d like an answer to this as well, but Anet removed a similar thread like this, so I don’t know if we will get one.

Maybe other players are purposely avoiding you.

I wish. At least then I’d benefit from some WvW rewards.

Galtrix.7369:

I’m convinced they stay at “Very High” all the time now, even when there’s one person per server. Seriously though, I literally played for 9 hours non-stop about a week ago and I traveled through each and every map so I could explore the world. Guess how many people I saw? 6 people. 6 people in 9 hours is unbelievable, even for GW2. Oh yeah, 4 of those people were in LA when I went there to do some selling. Yet, when I logged off and checked my server population, it still said “Very High”. At that point I was basically jumping up and down yelling BS! BS! while pointing my finger at the screen. And yeah, my server’s WvW is hopelessly gone forever. Nobody plays it anymore and I can’t gather enough people to even take a small tower. I’d like an answer to this as well, but Anet removed a similar thread like this, so I don’t know if we will get one.

Don’ t worry, everything is fine. There are 3 or 4 servers with people on them. Those are classed as full. I think the way the population goes is “full” if great than a few hundred, very high if 200-3, high if 3-1.

I think it’s just because ANET says so.

It’s based on the total number of accounts attached to the server in combination to the number of accounts currently online. This is why full servers occasionally drop down to very high.

If your server is deserted but remains very high, you must have a lot of inactive accounts. Honestly, chances are you aren’t looking very hard… I’ve guested to low tier servers and there are plenty of people around during prime time. If you play during off-peak then of course there won’t be many people on….. move to a high tier server if you want 24/7 activity.

I wish everyone who answers here support their “claims” with an official link. I am also curious how a server gets a “High Population” where I don’t see much people other than on LA, Queensdale, DR and Frostgorge.

knives.6345:

I wish everyone who answers here support their “claims” with an official link. I am also curious how a server gets a “High Population” where I don’t see much people other than on LA, Queensdale, DR and Frostgorge.

Sorry, I’m going to put on my tin foil hat and say that it’s about making it cost massive $$ for xfers. If I wanted to go to a less populated server for let’s say… wvw… I’d have to pay 80 gold unless I go to tier 8. I’ve guested all over and someone has gone to servers such as this and they tell me they’re ghost towns. There’s no incentive and being greedy is just hurting your game.

I would love to see some data as well

SniffyCube.6107:

knives.6345:

I wish everyone who answers here support their “claims” with an official link. I am also curious how a server gets a “High Population” where I don’t see much people other than on LA, Queensdale, DR and Frostgorge.

Sorry, I’m going to put on my tin foil hat and say that it’s about making it cost massive $$ for xfers. If I wanted to go to a less populated server for let’s say… wvw… I’d have to pay 80 gold unless I go to tier 8. I’ve guested all over and someone has gone to servers such as this and they tell me they’re ghost towns. There’s no incentive and being greedy is just hurting your game.

I would love to see some data as well

Good luck getting informed data.

Is it not listed anywhere?

SniffyCube.6107:

Is it not listed anywhere?

No, and I think it should be quite obvious why it’s not listed. As I stated in another thread there is only one reason to hide numbers. If you have high numbers you want to plaster them all over the place and say “hey look at how high our numbers are”. You don’t actively deny publishing high numbers.

If you want an example look at how much we hear about the “sold more than any other sub based mmo in the west over a 9 month period etc etc”. Even then it had to have a good amount of qualifiers added to it, and it had to exclude certain games.

It’s pretty obvious to most people why the numbers are hidden so well.