Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I just saw that the NA servers are now listed as all Very High instead of Full. This is awesome, but I’ve got a question. How long will the pop limits be open? Can we generally expect the servers to stay at Very High throughout the Christmas event?

Thanks!

those pop listings mean people either changed servers, or they increased the population total via hardware upgrades (or server optimisation)

It’s obviously not people changing servers. All the NA servers are now at Very High, when before all but a handful were at full.

What I want to know is if this is a one-time bump, or if it’s some kind of policy keeping all the servers open for Wintersday events / new Christmas players.

The same thing happened for the duration of the Lost Shores event, and once that was over, the server capacity went back to its former state. I’m assuming the same will happen this time.

I imagine they expect an influx of players returning or purchasing the game due to the season, the special they are running, and the event. I think they bumped LA capacities and such as well, as last night for the first time in ages I couldn’t actually get into an overflow, which made doing Fractals a bit problematic. A lot of servers no longer were put into overflows.

AVHero.7382:

I imagine they expect an influx of players returning or purchasing the game due to the season, the special they are running, and the event. I think they bumped LA capacities and such as well, as last night for the first time in ages I couldn’t actually get into an overflow, which made doing Fractals a bit problematic. A lot of servers no longer were put into overflows.

There are some servers that havent seen overflows in lions arch – or anywhere else – since the karka event.

Those are the servers I worry about. Increasing capacity allows for full worlds to become fuller, but it could just as easily have the opposite effect on worlds where population is struggling. I hope the team is watching those populations as closely as it does those on the always full worlds – and has a plan should those worlds dip too low.

Thanks for the answer Gaile. Unfortunately Tarnished Coast filled up before I finished work today. Now I’m left with hoping they lose people in large enough numbers that I can grab a spot.