Guild Wars 2

I wanted to get back into GW2 recently, but I have little inclination to stay now because the worlds are so incredibly empty. Queensdale- nothing. Cursed Shore- nothing. Divinity’s Reach- about 10 people hanging around by the dwayna statue. Seeing someone else talk in map chat happens once in a blue moon.
I considered changing worlds- maybe JQ is more sparsely populated than it used to be- but apparently it’s one of the three servers still considered ‘full’. I rarely get prompts to join a more populated version of the world I’m in, which suggests that they’re this sparse everywhere.
Is there anything that can be done about this, besides waiting for anet to cut their losses and merge servers? GW2 does not seem to be growing- it’s getting smaller every time I see it.

Was playing Southsun Survival, ended up being one of the last two, ran headfirst into the other survivor. We were fighting when he just… spontaneously exploded. The kill feed showed an image of a grenade or something. What killed ’im?

I know that they’ve “fixed” the ability to get underneath Rata Sum by teleporting you inside of the little prison there, but I’m just curious if anyone’s found a way to get down there even after this (dead or alive, either one works). I’m also somewhat curious as to why anet even bothered to ‘fix’ this- it was a cool little trick that didn’t actually break the game.

Dummy tonic please.

I’ll call it a ‘bug’ because I want to be nice and assume that no human being actually consciously made the decision to make the conclusion to your grand, epic, solo story a dungeon that requires 5 people and has no difficulty level.
“Butbut zhaitan is too strong to be defeated by just 1 person that’s why you need 4 people”
Destiny’s Edge. Upscale their damage, downscale enemy damage.
“Butbut it’s not that hard to get a party”
The point is not how hard it is to get a party, it’s that a solo experience is suddenly broken up in favor of a random party event. For comparison, imagine you’re playing, say, a Final Fantasy game, and just as you’re about to get to the final boss, a prompt pops up saying “To fight the final boss and see the epic conclusion, please get 3 friends to buy a copy of this game and use link cables or some other fumbly nonsense to connect your consoles together. Thanks for the money, sincerely, square enix.”

So I’ll stick with my explanation that the final quest is a programming bug nobody caught in time for release, and I humbly request that it be patched as soon as possible.

The same thing is happening to me. Whenever I manage to actually log in, it opens up another blank screen that turns the gamma of my entire screen down.

On my client, the music in Lion’s Arch is still the same, so there’s this happy, festival atmosphere with depressing woodwind music in the background. Is this because I’m on an overflow map, or was it really not changed?