Guild Wars 2

A few months ago, a little after the game was released, ANet released a graph that showed queues on each server at different hours for something like a week. Would it be possible to see that again, but on top of queues, also show the actual number of players online? I am curious about this, especially to see which servers have a large userbase during the night.

Excellent idea! I would love to see that data and hopefully from several weeks to see how the match ups have affected the population.

I just thought that it would be great if they included this in the API, so that we could easily check number of players, number of players in wvw, queues in wvw, etc.

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I just thought that it would be great if they included this in the API, so that we could easily check number of players, number of players in wvw, queues in wvw, etc.

While it would be great to get historical data for the previous week regularly, API pushed current data seems like a bad idea. They’re removing outmanned from being visible to enemies and data like that in the API would be an even easier way to see someone is outmanned and by exactly how much.

They posted that queue data because queues were pretty insane during that first month, and they wanted players to see the data. However, Mike Ferguson posted in a February interview that they don’t want players to know the actual numbers. Here’s a snip from the interview that offers a bit of their reasoning:

There are a couple of reasons why I have tried to avoid publically revealing our map population limit. The thing I have really wanted to avoid is creating a situation where the discussion around WvW becomes focused on what the limit is set at. Population limits are an unfortunate fact of life with the current wvw design, so I really would like to keep people focused more on the gameplay elements that happen with the limits that are in place, instead of being focused on what the number is and arguing how it should be changed or removed.

Thanks for the info, didn’t know about that.

That’s too bad, though. I think it would help a lot for guilds that might want to move from bigger to smaller servers, to have an idea on what the server they move to is like both PvE- and WvW-wise.

I think they wont show those data now because it will just show that playerbase is decreasing. And it can force more players to leave too.