As I make my daily runs on the forums of Guild Wars 2 I always come across several posts that consist of topics (or end up becoming topics) of the following, the game is dying, the game is loosing players, if Anet does not release some good content soon the game is done, the game sucks and always will because of bla bla bla. You get my point. To all those people who try to bring down Guild Wars 2 by claiming that the game is dying or its empty, just stop. The game is no where near dying and STILL has a very bright future. Now my proof. (which tons of haters forget to put in their arguments about how the game is dying)
Guild Wars 2 has been around for almost a year now. Some might think this is a long time but for a good high quality MMO like Guild Wars 2, one year is almost nothing to the 7-10 years expected. (Wow is also a very high quality MMO and has lasted over 10 years and the original guild wars lasted 8 and still goes on) In most games (especially mmos) the game releases, sees a high number of sales, the game sales die out after a few months if not shorter, and then the company must do something to get players interested again. (going free to play) Signs of an mmo loosing its player base and dying are the following, LACK of content, cuts to dev team, low sales after the game being out for only a few months. Guild wars 2 has NONE of these. In fact content has seen an increase (going from monthly to every 2 weeks) sales almost as high as sales were during release months later (Christmas sales) and Anet is still hiring! Yes sales have scene a decrease in the first quarter of 2013 but what do you expect? Even the all mighty WoW had sales decrease almost a year after release. So now to the haters who say the player base is not active…
This interview was from today. From the interview the following were stated by Colin Johnson
Over three million copies of Guild Wars 2 have already been sold
WvW populations are going up. In fact, the numbers are nearly equal to those the game featured in October.
PvP populations have risen by 3% each weekend over the past several weekends.
Does this sound like a game dying? So to sum it up, stop kittening about how the game is dying and empty cause its NOT, its growing. Thanks for reading and Cantha FTW.