Originally posted by Yamota

Originally posted by Bad.dog

Originally posted by Yamota

Why would anyone feel the need to show that a game is not dying? 

In any case, GW 2 is so last year. No one cares anymore.

It will be nice to see you move on then ...thanks for all your valuable input

I have moved on but it is annoying to see these defend threads popping up all the time. They are just pathetic and look like aome people are trying to get attention to a game which most people have moved on from and dont care about anymore.

Since it is B2P even I pop in from time to time to do some PvP but overall I just dont care anymore. I am looking forward to 2013 and something beside boring ThemePakrs to come to the genre.

LOL its anoying to see a person who has moved on to come to a forum just to post negitivity just do it out of spite.

Pot meet Kettle  =(

Originally posted by Yamota

Originally posted by Bad.dog

Originally posted by Yamota

Why would anyone feel the need to show that a game is not dying? 

In any case, GW 2 is so last year. No one cares anymore.

It will be nice to see you move on then ...thanks for all your valuable input

I have moved on but it is annoying to see these defend threads popping up all the time. They are just pathetic and look like aome people are trying to get attention to a game which most people have moved on from and dont care about anymore.

Since it is B2P even I pop in from time to time to do some PvP but overall I just dont care anymore. I am looking forward to 2013 and something beside boring ThemePakrs to come to the genre.

Obviously you do care, why else would you bother to come back and post a bunch of pointless comments that don’t add to the conversation?

Back to the OP’s observations, I too noted that there was a massive increase in player population.  For the first time in months I was actually in a over-flow zone!

A few weeks ago someone at ArenaNet posted a few comments about Guild Wars 2 being dead that I found very interesting.  I don’t remember where so I am not going to post a link I will simply paraphrase what I remember of that post. 

The interest in Guild Wars 2 far exceed their (NCSoft & ArenaNet) wildest dreams and sales estimates.  The retain rate was also higher than expected.  They did see a drop off after a month or so, however since then there has been an actual increase in the number of players logging in each day and sales continue to be strong. 

To sum it up, Guild Wars 2 is not dead.  It is alive and growing.  I admit that since the release of Guild Wars 2 there have been no games (of any note) released.  When a major game is released we will get to see (with interest) if the growth of the game continues.

Originally posted by kzaske

 

Obviously you do care, why else would you bother to come back and post a bunch of pointless comments that don’t add to the conversation?

Back to the OP’s observations, I too noted that there was a massive increase in player population.  For the first time in months I was actually in a over-flow zone!

A few weeks ago someone at ArenaNet posted a few comments about Guild Wars 2 being dead that I found very interesting.  I don’t remember where so I am not going to post a link I will simply paraphrase what I remember of that post. 

The interest in Guild Wars 2 far exceed their (NCSoft & ArenaNet) wildest dreams and sales estimates.  The retain rate was also higher than expected.  They did see a drop off after a month or so, however since then there has been an actual increase in the number of players logging in each day and sales continue to be strong. 

To sum it up, Guild Wars 2 is not dead.  It is alive and growing.  I admit that since the release of Guild Wars 2 there have been no games (of any note) released.  When a major game is released we will get to see (with interest) if the growth of the game continues.

Wayfarer hit overflow for me yesterday which i haven't seen in a very long while.. LA is always overflow but has been for awhile. Anyway it will be interesting to see how things go with the slew of new games coming this year plenty of ones I'm really looking forward to. If ANET can keep up with the changes and adding content i think it will still do pretty well, but we shall see:)

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

This just can't be.

According to all the self proclaimed "experts" of this very forum, the game is dying and the servers are empty.

You seeing other players online in massive numbers is simply impossible.

I am glad for the 200K players playing still and enjoying it.

I have to ask, and maybe someone already did and I just didn't read past this) but where did ths number come from?  I'm assuming that it is an estimate, so I'm wondering what data you use to extrapolate this number?

Originally posted by Alberel
What exactly is the point of this thread? Every MMO sees a population spike immediately after a big patch, especially event-based ones like this. It says nothing about the game's consistent population as the influx of players will disappear again after a few days...

point was the goal of ANET in this patch and the ones to follow was to get players playing in differn't zones and not just hanging out in the last couple zones and around LA... so far this patch has done that..  population didn't need an influx as there are and has been plenty of people in this game what the game did need was more incentives for higher levels to play lower level zones and this has been a good step in the right direction.

Originally posted by niceguy3978

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

This just can't be.

According to all the self proclaimed "experts" of this very forum, the game is dying and the servers are empty.

You seeing other players online in massive numbers is simply impossible.

I am glad for the 200K players playing still and enjoying it.

I have to ask, and maybe someone already did and I just didn't read past this) but where did ths number come from?  I'm assuming that it is an estimate, so I'm wondering what data you use to extrapolate this number?

It is an extrapolation based on his desires.

You do know there are like 10 players in each screenshot right?

So we know there were around 10 players killing a event boss in GW2, and we also know some people who stilling playing it  think its a big enough thing and worth to start a new thread with screenshots to prove it. You did prove something i guess..

Originally posted by Jean-Luc_Picard

This just can't be.

According to all the self proclaimed "experts" of this very forum, the game is dying and the servers are empty.

You seeing other players online in massive numbers is simply impossible.

I don't think anyone actually thinks the game's dying or the server are empty, I do think people are saying the game's leveling model does not hold up well when the vast majority of your population is no longer leveling... because, well... it doesn't.

Originally posted by Aerowyn

well looks like so far patch is doing what they wanted Wayfarer and Diessa are packed with people.  Did todays daily in 20 min just walking around in Wayfarer and in the northwestern area of Dissea there's the miner area where you have tons of dead miners to revive.

Ummm yeah, that must be more then 20 players there ...

Here is a scrren from last week, from a old grandmother seemly doing better ^^

http://i48.tinypic.com/nf0cba.jpg

Originally posted by Aerowyn
as i said before i couldn't zoom out any further to get everyone in the shot but population wasn't really the point of the thread.. whatever...

I'm in 100% agreement with this thread.  I didn't come back for the halloween or xmas event, but the living story grabbed me. I finished the achievment and can't wait for it to progress.  I'm seeing people all over the place ... much more than the last time I played.  This is a good sign for GW2.

You are forgetting that with GW2 culling you wont see half the players there. :)

And it isn't only in that place that day.

And you can even do some nice DEs with 3-4 other people in out of the way places like Brisban Wildlands.

All pics from a morning session today.