Guild Wars 2

nGumball.1283:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Zypher.7609:

Atherakhia.4086:

Zypher.7609:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It’s too late. Most people are quitting for either D3 or ESO after today’s patch. My 500 person guild just dissolved to move to D3… Anet got tons and tons of second chances, but people are just fed up with it now.

Why are people going to quit? Because they expected that today would be a large feature patch that A-net has said over and over again that it wouldn’t be?

Because the game is stale and no one wants to wait till July for another failed attempt at balance. Anet has squandered their fortunes with this game. Real competition is coming out now. GW2 isn’t the goto game just because ’there’s nothing else to play’.

Competition is always coming out, using this as a reason is just silly. Also if you feel that way just take a break from the game for a little bit, then wait until the patch comes out. You are in no way bound to the game, you do not pay a subscription, you do not sign your time over. Free to do what ever you need to do.

But that’s the thing…. competition HASN’T been coming out. There was a huge open field since GW2’s launch.

The only major release between launch and now was WoW: Pandas. Do you remember what happened when Pandas launched? The game almost died. Population fell by 40%, and sales plummeted. The devs panicked and quickly launched fractals + ascended gear to draw players back. It mostly worked and the population went back up and stabilized.

Now the drought of games is over. D3 is coming out, then ESO, then Wildstar, then WoW. Anet needs to have a proportional response to that or we will have a repeat of Novermber 2013…

Ascended gear got introduced around 1 year after MoP and the population didn’t get affected by much at all, the game was at it’s peak at that time. MoP released 1 month after GW2 and it bearly had an effect.

D3 isn’t an MMO, ESO and Wildstar are just decent MMOs and WoW, again? There is no quality-titles to compete with GW2. If players want to give up on the game and go to play crappier games, it is thier choice and WoW have been there for 10 years, if u like the concept of it, you shouldn’t be here.

I’m not sure what timeline you are living in… but here in reality Ascended gear and fractals was a response to falling populations in the weeks after WoW: Pandas launch.

Here was the original blog post: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/ (Note the date roughly a month after Panda launch, not a year…)

nGumball.1283:

Ascended gear got introduced around 1 year after MoP and the population didn’t get affected by much at all, the game was at it’s peak at that time. MoP released 1 month after GW2 and it bearly had an effect.

MoP Release: 9-25-2012
Ascended Gear Announced: 11-13-2012

That’s less than two months later.

EDIT: Ninjaed by ZudetGambeous

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Disregard any rumors about the feature build being months away.

Alright, I am stupid and I will play this game. Please go play WoW and enjoy ur time, I don’t get the point behind the hating on forums.

I wonder how much people will QQ on the Forums because they are waiting for Living Story Season 2 to begin on March 28th….

nGumball.1283:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Zypher.7609:

Atherakhia.4086:

Zypher.7609:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It’s too late. Most people are quitting for either D3 or ESO after today’s patch. My 500 person guild just dissolved to move to D3… Anet got tons and tons of second chances, but people are just fed up with it now.

Why are people going to quit? Because they expected that today would be a large feature patch that A-net has said over and over again that it wouldn’t be?

Because the game is stale and no one wants to wait till July for another failed attempt at balance. Anet has squandered their fortunes with this game. Real competition is coming out now. GW2 isn’t the goto game just because ’there’s nothing else to play’.

Competition is always coming out, using this as a reason is just silly. Also if you feel that way just take a break from the game for a little bit, then wait until the patch comes out. You are in no way bound to the game, you do not pay a subscription, you do not sign your time over. Free to do what ever you need to do.

But that’s the thing…. competition HASN’T been coming out. There was a huge open field since GW2’s launch.

The only major release between launch and now was WoW: Pandas. Do you remember what happened when Pandas launched? The game almost died. Population fell by 40%, and sales plummeted. The devs panicked and quickly launched fractals + ascended gear to draw players back. It mostly worked and the population went back up and stabilized.

Now the drought of games is over. D3 is coming out, then ESO, then Wildstar, then WoW. Anet needs to have a proportional response to that or we will have a repeat of Novermber 2013…

Ascended gear got introduced around 1 year after MoP and the population didn’t get affected by much at all, the game was at it’s peak at that time. MoP released 1 month after GW2 and it bearly had an effect.

D3 isn’t an MMO, ESO and Wildstar are just decent MMOs and WoW, again? There is no quality-titles to compete with GW2. If players want to give up on the game and go to play crappier games, it is their choice and WoW have been there for 10 years, if u like the concept of it, you shouldn’t be here.

D3 is an MMO (PC at least) you have to be online to even play the game…and it just got way more fun with RoS release…. theres plenty of people in my guild that will be playing RoS once its released… Its pretty fun farming with a group of friends… cant say that in GW2…yea you could run fracs over and over again lol, which we are tired of doing ><

ESO and Wildstar arent released yet…. they can’t compete with GW2 players right now if they arent even out on the market yet lol

WoW I agree, I highly doubt GW2 will be losing players to WoW…

The rest however will affect gw2 population. yes there will be a drop in players. Those are new games that will be a breath of fresh air from this game… you say they are crappier games yet I can almost guarantee you ESO, D3 and Wildstar will have an impact on GW2 player activity during this lull period in GW2…It is waay more fun to start up a new MMO with a group of friends than it is to currently play this game, especially after you have already done a lot of the things this game has to offer…

Ya you can go and do WvW season 2 lol, i’ll pass. It won’t be any different than season 1… run around in a blob spam AOEs, great!

The question is, will GW2 have a reason for players to come back