Guild Wars 2

Hellooo! I’m a returning from a long time of inactivity, haha. I purchased the game around the second week of GW2 being released, and I played for about two months and, then, I quit. I have a level 80 Thief, and he has this gear from a lava dungeon that I used to run often to get this really cool armor (I think it looks cool). Anyway, I stopped playing because of school, and then I was emailed about an expansion for GW2, so I decided to download it again and play it. I was running around on my alt, and I cannot seem to find anyone…LOL. I checked my server and it says ‘very high," but I only see about two-three people after a while of questing alone. Perhaps it’s because everybody is already level 80, so they’re doing their own dungeon and/or there’s a hangout spot (Lions Arch in GW1) that I don’t know about? I’m in Darkhaven, and if the game truly is ‘active,’ then I would not mind spending money to migrate to a more populated server. I hope this all makes sense – I feel like I’m just rambling!

Megaserver system -

Players will no longer be segregated into separate copies of a map based on their home world selection. Instead, all players will be placed into shared copies (instances) of the map, which will be instantiated as necessary to hold the current population of that map. Overflow shards will no longer exist.
Maps are still region-based, i.e. North American servers are separate from European servers.
Upon entering a map, players will be placed in the copy of the map based on a set of heuristics which includes your party, guild, language, and home world. This will dramatically increase the chance that you will be placed in the same map as your party and guildmates, or other players who speak your language.

Which maps are you seeing very few people in? Also what time? You may just have caught it at a period of down time for your timezone. Example when I play on NA servers being based in the UK I see a few people but not a massive amount. When I log into those servers at NA prime time I see a lot more people.

Usually there are people everywhere I go. The games makes and collapses the PvE maps as needed so it’s possible you were on a low population shard when you were playing and the other people were on another shard. Sometimes going to character select then back again will move you off a one shard to another.

As to the hang out points, I see a lot of people around the bank areas in the major cities.

Both Divinity’s Reach and Lion’s Arch are heavily packed with people if you’re looking to meet new people.

Besides that, and I know this isn’t a recruitment thread, my old main Guild [NUDE] transferred to Blackhaven a couple of weeks ago. If you want to meet new people, I suggest joining them. I’m no longer a part of their Guild as I remained on my own server for WvW purposes, but they do have 100+ Members, do Missions actively, have a vibrant Guild chat and a seperate Facebook page, Teamspeak, you name it.

So if you are still looking for a new community to get back in the game with, they would be a good bet for you to join, as I can imagine your Guild also became inactive coming back after such a long time.

I have no idea where these players are when they ask “where is everyone?”. Even in the farthest reaches far off zones, I run into other players every minute or so now….

Megaserver may have some downsides, but it certainly keeps the zones populated as far as I can tell….

Brother Grimm.5176:

I have no idea where these players are when they ask “where is everyone?”. Even in the farthest reaches far off zones, I run into other players every minute or so now….

Megaserver may have some downsides, but it certainly keeps the zones populated as far as I can tell….

OP said he played for 2 months at game start then quit. Back then the maps were packed because the whole population of the game was first time leveling or leveling alts. Now that most people have done that, they aren’t in those maps.

If someone was playing then and came back now, they only remember the crowded maps and the current maps would seem empty. This is probably why OP, on the alt he is leveling, looks around and wonders where everyone is.

That makes sense for the OP, but I have seen this type of comment from other players that do not appear to be recalling some time when the game was almost overpopulated.

Brother Grimm.5176:

That makes sense for the OP, but I have seen this type of comment from other players that do not appear to be recalling some time when the game was almost overpopulated.

I have no idea. From reading the forums of games like WoW, the leveling maps are a wasteland of No One Here But Me after the game has moved on. I’m not sure why people would expect this game to be any different. The only other thing I can think of is they see lots of people in the starter map then get to mid range. The population is probably spread out over several midrange maps and now it feels empty.

Mostly I think they don’t see mapchat full of spam and think no one is there. Just run five seconds and I guarantee you will pass people on every map.