Guild Wars 2

I know that you don’t want to release official number for many good reasons.

BUT

Would it be possible to answer a few questions and give comparison numbers instead of raw numbers?

So here are the list of things that would be useful to know :

1. Do you monitor WvW population on each server at specific time of the day and overall participation during the week for each server?

2. If yes, would it be possible to have some percentage about these statistics? For example for WvW participation of the servers over the week :

For each server, give a percentage of the number of hours spent in WvW for each server compared to the number of hours spent by the whole GW2 population.

That way, we have no idea how many players are playing the game or how much time people are passing in the game but we can at least understand the problem about population imbalance.

3. Do you have statistics about where people are transferring to and from?

4. Is there more people transferring to a higher ranked server or more people transferring to a lower ranked server. Could we get the percentage for that information?

5. Over a set period of time, let’s say 1 week or 1 month, would it be possible to get some percentage of how many people transfer to each server compared to the total number of transfer and how many people transfer from each server compared to the total number of transfer

We just need some information to be able to make comparison. We don’t need the total number of players online at specific time of the day or things like that, just some percentage is all we need.

Thank you

N.B. If I forgot anything important tell me and I will add it to the list.

Arenanet has the statistics, these numbers are compiled on a daily basis and used by arenanet for various purposes on top on basic data auditing

No they will not release statistics although you can bet they is talk at arenanet about the rampant guild buying and server stacking that seems to have been getting worse over the past few weeks

Transfer numbers and WvW activity are not also aligned meaning just cuz a server has a high amount of transfers this one time doesnt mean all those players play wvw constantly or even at all making any release of the statistics very vulnerable to miss interpretation.

A hardcore 25 man WvW guild that plays almost everyday has a better chance to succeed that 100 randoms pugging it in WvW further skewing the interpretation of those statistics, the opposite can also happend if those 100 people decided to zerg everyday, or in timezones where there is little opposition, so many variables that people very rarely consider and even take for granted.

And no Anet will likely not do anything to directly mitigate that as the guild transferring thing, whether purchased or not is part of what you might consider as “free will” for the player, it sounds and feels wrong that guilds purposely stack or even get bought for thousands of gold, and it is sad but you have to remember that although people may not like what you say,think or do, anet will fight for you right to do them so long as they are within certain boundaries of course.