Guild Wars 2

i must ask is there any info on how population is doing…. how many people are actually playing? not that population should be bothering me,,, but im concerned if there is a good amount of people still logging in because i want this game to succeed as much as possible because it deserves to.. so when it comes down to it if you could give me an answer more then a simple yes or no that would be greatly appreciated?

They simply will not provide this info. Those of us who play this game know how nearly dead it has become. The last two days it has been FRIGHTNENINGLY dead.

I am not talking about the small groups spamming for Fractals in LA, I am talking about EVERY OTHER MAP. Dead. On one of the Always FULL servers.

Did you know NCSoft did a shuffling recently? 15% of the workforce gone? Not good times, to bad Anet doesn’t listen to the people who bought this game on their original manifesto. Those that left due to no “End Game Content” aren’t coming back, and those who feel sold out over the gear grind introduced 3 months after launch – a 180 from the stated manifesto – are now leaving or gone.

You think this “e-sport” PvP is gonna save it? I sure don’t.

Sad state of the game.

GOSU.9574:

They simply will not provide this info. Those of us who play this game know how nearly dead it has become. The last two days it has been FRIGHTNENINGLY dead.

I am not talking about the small groups spamming for Fractals in LA, I am talking about EVERY OTHER MAP. Dead. On one of the Always FULL servers.

I was in Harathi last night on an alt and had a nice big group of random people for all of the meta events. Stay away from the crappy maps like Dredgehaunt and the population generally isn’t terrible.

I think the population is OK… although I do think it took a hit over ascended gear…

but many zones feel dead because there is no reason to go there…

they need to add higher level stuff in lower levels zones, and a reason for anyone to go into Orr

perhaps level 80 mining/farming equipment that allows a person to loot rare stuff from low level ore/trees/herbs

GOSU.9574:

They simply will not provide this info. Those of us who play this game know how nearly dead it has become. The last two days it has been FRIGHTNENINGLY dead.

I am not talking about the small groups spamming for Fractals in LA, I am talking about EVERY OTHER MAP. Dead. On one of the Always FULL servers.

Did you know NCSoft did a shuffling recently? 15% of the workforce gone? Not good times, to bad Anet doesn’t listen to the people who bought this game on their original manifesto. Those that left due to no “End Game Content” aren’t coming back, and those who feel sold out over the gear grind introduced 3 months after launch – a 180 from the stated manifesto – are now leaving or gone.

You think this “e-sport” PvP is gonna save it? I sure don’t.

Sad state of the game.

whic game are u playing if u wanna troll try beter im always in full areas ALWAYs whit lots of lots of people

Making PvP into “e-sport” will help. However, they will have to revamp the class mechanics significantly to make PvP into a viable “e-sport”. There is no room in competitive play for random effects from all the class skills.

The game is losing a lot of people, the Lost Shores event really drove a lot of players away.

GOSU.9574:

I am not talking about the small groups spamming for Fractals in LA, I am talking about EVERY OTHER MAP. Dead. On one of the Always FULL servers.

This is currently what i’ve been experiencing for the past 3 – 4 weeks. Alot of the zones are simply dead. Chain events not being done. No-one to group with to kill a champion. Even asking in map chat, i get no response.

It very from world to world some are very active others are not.

No issues seen with population on my server – saw about 50 at one Orr event, but ofc it will vary from server to server, esp as ppl switch for wvw and as Ez says, the population is diffused much more now (as you’d expect).

Yes a lot of have probably left, but every mmo loses ppl after 3 months for it being not what they hoped. SW had it, Conan had it, Star Trek had it, TSW had it. It’s just the way MMo’s go.

GW1 saw huge population dips and spikes between content, but that was the nature of a free to play sub. People found other things to play in between

to be honest, at this point arenanet should start merging worlds. Making the population bigger. I don’t mind having more overflows. I like having other people running around though. Usually when I play on a map I’m sooo happy if I see another player. Sometimes it just feels like the entire map has 5 players roaming it. It shouldn’t be like this.

Merge worlds, make it happen!

It feels like gw1 had waaaaay more players than this game, and gw1 didn’t even have shared instances. How messed up is that?

Doesn’t seem dead at all on Jade Quarry.
Was just in some 25-35 zone , cant recall the name and saw about 12 different people in various areas.
There has been a smaller turn out at Plinx lately due to the nerf I’m sure and the introduction of fractals. There’s almost always a fair to large number of people in all of our WvW maps as well .

It could be your server , I think they fell into the trap almost all MMOs do now a days , they set up a huge number of realms/servers/shards for opening but there’s always attrition and those full realms become not so full or ghost townish if you will.People migrate to other servers etc.
But the good news is that server transfers are still free and near instantaneous. Just be sure about your choice as you will be stuck there for 7 days once you transfer.

Game has tons of people playing it. Come to stormbluff if you want a packed server. Game has no sub fee so I don’t see the population becoming extinct for a very very very long time.

Charming Rogue.8071:

to be honest, at this point arenanet should start merging worlds. Making the population bigger. I don’t mind having more overflows. I like having other people running around though. Usually when I play on a map I’m sooo happy if I see another player. Sometimes it just feels like the entire map has 5 players roaming it. It shouldn’t be like this.

Merge worlds, make it happen!

It feels like gw1 had waaaaay more players than this game, and gw1 didn’t even have shared instances. How messed up is that?

Way too early for merge there still free world transfer you can use them to get to the more active world.