Originally posted by Sirca

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Population is increasing compared to the last couple of months.

There will be people in every zone.

Cursed Shore always has a ton of people.

Divinity's Reach->Queensdale->KesseX Hills->Gendarren Fields->LA axis is very populated.

All other starter zones are well populated.

It is possible some servers and some time zones don't follow this pattern.

Guess you are just making assumptions, if not please indicate your source because as far as I am concerned (EU server) the overall population has been going downhill for a little while.

Your guessing is incorrect.

My observations were an increase in population .

Arenanet confirmed my own observations.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/19/gw2-colin-johanson-mmorpg-livestream-transcript-jan-18/

"We actually hit our base point with GW2 where for a month we saw the same login numbers and every week for the last 5 weeks it has being slowly going up and that is really exciting for us."

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Originally posted by Sirca

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Population is increasing compared to the last couple of months.

There will be people in every zone.

Cursed Shore always has a ton of people.

Divinity's Reach->Queensdale->KesseX Hills->Gendarren Fields->LA axis is very populated.

All other starter zones are well populated.

It is possible some servers and some time zones don't follow this pattern.

Guess you are just making assumptions, if not please indicate your source because as far as I am concerned (EU server) the overall population has been going downhill for a little while.

Your guessing is incorrect.

My observations were an increase in population .

Arenanet confirmed my own observations.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/19/gw2-colin-johanson-mmorpg-livestream-transcript-jan-18/

"We actually hit our base point with GW2 where for a month we saw the same login numbers and every week for the last 5 weeks it has being slowly going up and that is really exciting for us."

 

That statement from Johanson is open ended and means very little.  If noone at all logged in to GW2 before five weeks ago and then ten people did for one week and then another five the next week, five more atfer another week, etc then the game would still be pretty dead in terms of who you see.  Also whats being stated is logging on, but how long do those people stay on? There's far too many variable to prove anything but if it suits your agenda I suppose..

As for the other poster if he's basing it on he's own experience and not what Johanson is claiming then you cannot tell if the entire game is dying or not, only on your server.  As you can only change that once every seven days it's not particularly accurate and how GW2 judges server activity, (https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first#post703192), it's always difficult to tell.

As for OP, being on the highest, 'populated', server on the EU it's basically top and bottom heavy with a sparse area in the middle.  There are the usually bunch running around areas like Orr and so on and there always seems to be a healthy amount rerolling in different stating areas.  Past lv25 though and there seems to be less people about in the leveling areas and that can make some of the DEs awkward, (the game is built for pick up grouping, soloing most of these is just tedious).

You mileage on other servers may vary but on Desolation, (the server I'm on), this is what I've found.

i am not even sure why this is a question

the population is at least 3 million  every single person can come back at any time

your always going to find people to play within any area  and  suprising how quickly you find  3-5 people all grouping up for the events

a example of this  was on sunday i was  in a lvl 50 zone wandering around  at 6 in the morning  suddenly  there was 4 of us doing events

this  happens in all zones  everywhere   the  only zones i found with less population was  between 50-60  mainly because people are  always rushing through these trying to get to 80 as quick as possible

Originally posted by Omnifish

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Originally posted by Sirca

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Population is increasing compared to the last couple of months.

There will be people in every zone.

Cursed Shore always has a ton of people.

Divinity's Reach->Queensdale->KesseX Hills->Gendarren Fields->LA axis is very populated.

All other starter zones are well populated.

It is possible some servers and some time zones don't follow this pattern.

Guess you are just making assumptions, if not please indicate your source because as far as I am concerned (EU server) the overall population has been going downhill for a little while.

Your guessing is incorrect.

My observations were an increase in population .

Arenanet confirmed my own observations.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/19/gw2-colin-johanson-mmorpg-livestream-transcript-jan-18/

"We actually hit our base point with GW2 where for a month we saw the same login numbers and every week for the last 5 weeks it has being slowly going up and that is really exciting for us."

 

 

That statement from Johanson is open ended and means very little.  If noone at all logged in to GW2 before five weeks ago and then ten people did for one week and then another five the next week, five more atfer another week, etc then the game would still be pretty dead in terms of who you see.  Also whats being stated is logging on, but how long do those people stay on? There's far too many variable to prove anything but if it suits your agenda I suppose..

As for the other poster if he's basing it on he's own experience and not what Johanson is claiming then you cannot tell if the entire game is dying or not, only on your server.  As you can only change that once every seven days it's not particularly accurate and how GW2 judges server activity, (https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first#post703192), it's always difficult to tell.

As for OP, being on the highest, 'populated', server on the EU it's basically top and bottom heavy with a sparse area in the middle.  There are the usually bunch running around areas like Orr and so on and there always seems to be a healthy amount rerolling in different stating areas.  Past lv25 though and there seems to be less people about in the leveling areas and that can make some of the DEs awkward, (the game is built for pick up grouping, soloing most of these is just tedious).

You mileage on other servers may vary but on Desolation, (the server I'm on), this is what I've found.

I'm on desolation as well, and it is very well populated, with people all around.

Your example is nice in theory but has no merit in reality because the game was never dead.

What Johanson said was - "we hit a low in log ins, then we had that same number log in for a month and then each consecutive week, we had more players than the week before."

So, for example, 100 every day for a month, then 105 next week, then 110 the following, then 115, then 120, then 125.

Again, if one compares it to launch it will be lower, but launch was crazy high - there were more ppl in XFire playing GW2 at launch than WoW:MoP at launch.

Originally posted by Sirca

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Population is increasing compared to the last couple of months.

There will be people in every zone.

Cursed Shore always has a ton of people.

Divinity's Reach->Queensdale->KesseX Hills->Gendarren Fields->LA axis is very populated.

All other starter zones are well populated.

It is possible some servers and some time zones don't follow this pattern.

Guess you are just making assumptions, if not please indicate your source because as far as I am concerned (EU server) the overall population has been going downhill for a little while.

Not on Far Shiverpeaks, plenty of people running around.

Sure some zones are somewhat dead, but if u link DEs in chat, sure enough people will join in.

Originally posted by boxsnd
Last time I played (few weeks ago) I constantly had to skip DEs because of the lack of people. The few times I found other players they just ignored me (probably bots). And sadly I play on a top WvW server.

Some people are sadistic, doing the stuff they don't like over and over.

I play on Borlis Pass, and my highest level character (out of 4) is 53. Middle of the workday populations in the 30+ level areas are thin, and when I say "thin", I mean one or two other players.

The starting areas, pre level 30, are still very populated.  Events still produce zergs on weekends, especially in the Human and Norn related areas (and secondary Level 15+ areas).

I've played a game that is dying. This looks nothing like that.

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

Originally posted by boxsnd
Last time I played (few weeks ago) I constantly had to skip DEs because of the lack of people. The few times I found other players they just ignored me (probably bots). And sadly I play on a top WvW server.

Some people are sadistic, doing the stuff they don't like over and over.

And that's the origination of how Jotunn became trolls :) GW2 and mythology ftw!

Originally posted by BitterClinger

I play on Borlis Pass, and my highest level character (out of 4) is 53. Middle of the workday populations in the 30+ level areas are thin, and when I say "thin", I mean one or two other players.

The starting areas, pre level 30, are still very populated.  Events still produce zergs on weekends, especially in the Human and Norn related areas (and secondary Level 15+ areas).

I've played a game that is dying. This looks nothing like that.

The nice thing is...if you really want a zerg...you just go to some popular events and rpeat them becauss those always have a lot of traffic and due to level scaling it doesnt matter where you level.

Originally posted by boxsnd
Last time I played (few weeks ago) I constantly had to skip DEs because of the lack of people. The few times I found other players they just ignored me (probably bots). And sadly I play on a top WvW server.

Its not really hard to pinpoint what exactly is the problem.

play on weekend as most of people do, so population will be on. =D