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10/06/12 12:44:52 AM#21
Originally posted by Zylaxx Next will be GW2 is going F2P,,, wait wait it has no subs so that doesnt fit. Hmm guess have to invent some new excuses. LMAO |
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GeezerGamer
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Joined: 4/03/12
Who ever said "Familiarity breeds contempt" didn't have an internet connection. |
10/06/12 12:46:52 AM#22
Originally posted by Zylaxx I don't know why this community is so hung up on server populations. They don't mean squat. You can have every single server and overflow server so full that there are always log in queues 24/7 [mod edit] If the conversation turned "Tit-for-Tat", and I've stopped posting, Consider it your win. |
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10/06/12 1:56:17 AM#23
Further proof the game isn't dying is that those previously added servers are increasing in population. What were previously green (light) servers during peak times are now medium or even heavy. Yes certainly server transfers could account for a portion of that, but not enough to increase the population so dramatically. Haters gonna hate, but an increasing population one month after release is a very good sign of potential stability down the road.
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10/06/12 3:08:14 AM#24
Let us think a bit further ahead. With "just" high population right now, they still seem to be optimistic that a full server capable of hosting another 20-30k active and semiactive useraccounts in the next few months is neccesary. I guess this server is preperation for the upcoming first contentpatch of GW2. Rather than just population growth. Activity will spike again and then we have all the pople already dead bored from other recently hyped fads coming back. 'Seamless world' - A world lacking visible or phys. seams, forming forced breaking points during transition and movement;
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10/06/12 3:17:11 AM#25
Originally posted by Torvaldr But all the servers are connected, you can group with anyone from any server. LFG chat in certain areas is cross server and you only need to right click there name and select an option to summon them to your dimension. Guilds, PVP, dungeons, they're all cross server. On topic, nice to see them adding another server. When I read through this thread and see people like "but that's 1 month after launch, come back in 3", it makes me wanna facepalm. It seems people WANT a game to fail. Give credit where it's due, and save the pessimistic speculation for yourself. |
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NBlitz
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Joined: 2/16/08
"Give a man a mask and he will show you his true face." |
10/06/12 3:21:24 AM#26
I'm happy for the NA crowd. I remember in GW1 the EU servers were not as popular as the NA ones...well at least for pre-searing stuff, which is what I did mostly. GW2 has the benefit of not keeping tabs on subscribers but on how many accounts there are per server. As those accounts can pop in and out at any time. I still don't fully get how they tally the server status though. As I've read people say it's by log-ins. Others say it's via accounts total. Is it any relevant? Not really. Mostly for speculation purposes.
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10/06/12 3:26:35 AM#27
yep. they need to activate guesting tho ASAP. :)
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10/06/12 5:58:54 AM#28
Originally posted by bcbully Yah , in its second week after launch only because a dedicated RP server was requested which was the reason. |
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Lobotomist
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Joined: 5/20/07
I got so much |
10/06/12 6:07:57 AM#29
Originally posted by JackFrosty But since there is no subscription it will be highly inacurate. Because people might take a break (to play borderlands 2 , like my example) than come back later.  |
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10/06/12 6:13:02 AM#30
Originally posted by Zylaxx what are you talking about, they just released new missions in Issue #3, Halloween event starting next week, Issue #4 around the corner. They add more stuff to do than I have time to finish. No one forces you to gear grind. Do the monthly missions and events if you don´t want gear from the elite dungeons and lairs |
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10/06/12 6:46:51 AM#31
So many people watching the populations...is ad numerum always the easiest topic? Or just the surface level of peer pressure response? OTOH, anything that quiets the proclamations of the prophets of doom--even if just for a couple of replies--is a welcome change. So not sure how to feel about this op. Guess I'll give it a thumbs down, just for being the sort of inter-game "neener neener"ing that directly fuels the non-stop fanboy wars. |
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10/06/12 6:50:15 AM#32
Originally posted by bcbully An entire month after launch? If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game. |
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10/06/12 6:59:28 AM#33
Is this due to the increasing population of bots? There are so many bots in the beginning human area on Yak's Bend. It's really discouraging when most people I ran into were exactly that, teleporting about with names like "xytsnsh.d." I've been playing this game since launch and it's become quite disheartening. For every 1 real player I ran into last night, I encountered 3-5 bots. So not sure what this server is for other than them. Release a game with a very large established fanbase from 10+ years of bnet history when the market was still emerging and the casual base had not yet been established, thus ripe for harvesting a momentious self perpetuating playerbase people never leave because they have X hours invested in their characters, and their friends and everyone else plays anyway. Not discounting Blizzard quality... but WoW's success is as much about perfect timing as it is quality, if not more so. - Derros |
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10/06/12 7:04:16 AM#34
it must be abug b/c ANet can only add servers by 3 b/c of WvW. Adding 1 server is not possible.
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10/06/12 7:15:35 AM#35
I loved that they just kind of opened it up without much fanfare, any other recent game would have been patting themselves on the back in public and screaming it from the roof tops. I'm not surprised, it's a solid game and still incredibly active at all level ranges on our server, none of my alts have ever had a hard trime finding groups or tons of active events. Obviously new people are joining as /map is often full of new player questions. Good sign. It's also sounding like they have some nice stuff in store for October, besides the Halloween event (which to be fair was kind of a given). That combined with the incoming changes sounds great. |
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10/06/12 7:18:28 AM#36
Originally posted by Xten There was already a dedicated RP server (Aracadia). The game just had a large RP community and needed another, which was Leviathan. |
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10/06/12 7:39:46 AM#37
Originally posted by Zylaxx
That's a game I'm going to be playing as well. Funcom's bad luck that GW2 was around the corner, that I waited for years for release and that the game has severely exceeded my expectations... |
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10/06/12 7:48:46 AM#38
Originally posted by grimal i'd say you are greatly exaggerating here. Got some video of this? again not saying bots aren't around but I still have yet to see one upto level 50 accross all my characters and haven't heard any of my friends talking about them or anyone in map chat talking about them. I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg |
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10/06/12 7:52:39 AM#39
And i am still waiting for some news regarding merging of medium populated server on EU side. I transferred out last week to high server.
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10/06/12 8:01:12 AM#40
Originally posted by Icewhite Separate from the usual primitive tribalism that is the mentality of many MMO gamers these days, one reason I can think of why a healthy player population is important, is development resources. Nobody needs the amount of revenues WoW gets (and that Blizzard doesn't use for WoW development at all btw except for a tiny fraction of it), but when the revenues dwindle too much, you can kiss goodbye to extensive expansions etc. A shrunken dev team can only do so much. So that's a reason why a healthy stream of revenues for the MMO company is of importance to the players of an MMO of that company too. The only way to make at least some educated guesses about it, is player activity tools, which beats the gut feeling wild guesses imo.
I don't get the OP though. I think he's wrong. I checked it, but couldn't find that server nowhere in the list, I did a count, I came up with 24 NA servers, and 51 in total, exactly the number of servers they had early September. What am I missing? As for bots, I did see an annoying increase in bots, I saw like 3 times more bots last week than I saw a few weeks ago, but not the 5 bots for 1 player ratio. It can differ per server. I'll be playing this weekend on a new character in starter zones, I'll see if things have worsened by then. |
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