Guild Wars 2

Colin Johanson made an interesting claim in his latest blog entry.

“WvW population has been rapidly on the rise since January.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

If true, this is great. And I would like to ask Anet to release those numbers and metrics to the public. We would love to see them.

But assuming these numbers are accurate, does this jibe with our own experiences? I’ve put thousands of hours into WvW, played on four different NA servers, talked to players on most of the other servers(I am ignorant of the EU WvW scene however). I’ve watched guilds leave the game, guilds merge into other guilds, leaders quit, players quit. And yes, there is a constant stream of new players and guilds coming into the game to replace them. But not enough to make up for the losses.

Without concrete numbers it is all subjective of course. None of us play every hour of every day, none of us can be everywhere at once across all the maps. But it often feels like playing on a high ranked NA server today has fewer players in WvW than a low ranked NA server did before Christmas.

What say you? Do you believe WvW player populations are increasing?

How are you counting the “fair weather” players? There are quite a few on my server at least. If we are winning or close to it we suddenly have a mega zerg. If we are getting stomped though you can hear crickets except for the die hard WvWers.

How you count WvW participation is a good question, which is why I hope Anet will release some information about it.

Which is worth more? 10 players playing for 1 hour, or 1 player playing for 10 hours?

I think the number of players putting ten, twelve, eighteen hours a day into WvW have definitely dropped. But maybe the number of players jumping into WvW for an hour or two a night have made up for it.

Interesting. The hardcore types on TC are less and less by the day but queue times are up…

So it really might be a 1 hour a day crew making up for the loss of the 10 hour a day people. Of course, the 10 hour players are make the game much more interesting. Right now the game seems to boiling down into some grey sludge that I don’t have the “taste” for.