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  PaRoXiTiC

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Joined: 3/11/08
Posts: 338

9/22/12 1:04:22 AM#41

From my experience there are certain zones that are PACKEDDDDDD and certain zones that are DEADDDDDDDD!

Some of the zones have fun and unique DE's that run a good chain and give good loot so a lot of people hang out in those zones. I'm at 98% world completion so I have been to them all. Some of them I ran through and completed the map without seeing one person. 

Straits of Devestation constantly has 50-75 people running DE's. Kessex Hills and Queensdale seem very popular also. 

  User Deleted
9/22/12 1:09:56 AM#42
Originally posted by StanlyStanko
Playing Torchlight 2 or Borderlands 2 and next week is Pandatown. The games just keep on coming.

^ this. Every one of my Steam pals is playing BL2 atm.

  Scalpless

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9/22/12 3:14:21 AM#43
People spread out a bit. Most of the time, I see around 5 people in DEs on my server (Gandara) and that's how it should be. I don't think zones should be packed full of players, like the newbie zones were in the beginning. You're on one of the lowest-pop servers, though, so maybe the situation is different over there.
  Vesavius

Old School

Joined: 3/08/04
Posts: 6992

Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.

9/22/12 3:16:36 AM#44
Originally posted by Speedhaak

I usually log in an hour or so in the morning, and then again perhaps in the evening. I'm not sure if it's because the Cities and Zones are so big but I haven't exactly been swamped in PC interaction. Compared to TERA which I played most recently where when you went out and about you'd see loads of people just questing and going about their business. Guild Wars 2 feels so empty by comparison. I'm putting my money on it being the vastness of it all, but still - it would be nice to see more than two or three players every Hour....

 

After all, this is MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE gaming... Ahem.

 

 

Not sure what server you are on, but on mine I only mentioed to the GF yesterday that I was impressed with the amount of people in the lowbie zones still (as I was working on completion).

I see people literally all over.

  Amjoco

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Joined: 9/15/10
Posts: 2473

9/22/12 6:40:05 AM#45
Originally posted by Furrballs
MOP is coming in three days, gw2 will be trampled into oblivion by a rampaging horde of pandas..

I think MoP is going to do well for a month until folks find out it is still WoW and not then not resub. I will be playing both, but after updating the WoW client and logging in 2 days ago, it felt like going from steak to hamburger. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of WoW but it didn't feel the same after playing GW2. /shrug

I'm going to give the Panda/Monk thing a try though because WoW is simply a great game. It won't be my main anymore!

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  solarine

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9/22/12 7:31:49 AM#46

Seriously, people? You're still asking what server the OP's on? He's already told you, and it's been quoted by another poster. It's Seafarer's Rest EU. Apparently the server's not doing that well. 

There *are* many active servers in EU, though, and I play on one. You can't get a DE to yourself, it's always like 10+ people, and on some mobs I have a hard time even getting a shot in. Even champions are zerged to oblivion in seconds. And yeah, don't even try getting into WvWvW. 

Still, I'll take that over a ghost server any time.

 

  Sylvarii

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9/22/12 7:33:51 AM#47
Originally posted by Speedhaak

I usually log in an hour or so in the morning, and then again perhaps in the evening. I'm not sure if it's because the Cities and Zones are so big but I haven't exactly been swamped in PC interaction. Compared to TERA which I played most recently where when you went out and about you'd see loads of people just questing and going about their business. Guild Wars 2 feels so empty by comparison. I'm putting my money on it being the vastness of it all, but still - it would be nice to see more than two or three players every Hour....

 

After all, this is MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE gaming... Ahem.

I wouldn't put the words vastness and GW2 together,it's big but it's not vast.

  Deerhunter71

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Joined: 10/25/05
Posts: 416

9/22/12 7:35:25 AM#48
Originally posted by Speedhaak

I usually log in an hour or so in the morning, and then again perhaps in the evening. I'm not sure if it's because the Cities and Zones are so big but I haven't exactly been swamped in PC interaction. Compared to TERA which I played most recently where when you went out and about you'd see loads of people just questing and going about their business. Guild Wars 2 feels so empty by comparison. I'm putting my money on it being the vastness of it all, but still - it would be nice to see more than two or three players every Hour....

 

After all, this is MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE gaming... Ahem.

You are not alone a bunch in my guild used to play but most barely play anymore and all I see is posts on our forum where did everyone go.  They got tired of the same old WvWvW as there is no penalty and no real endgame.  They did last longer than I thought they would til they got bored.

Darkfall's grind is kill 150 mobs for X prowess. in other MMO's we call that themepark and stupid. In Darkfall it is called "sandbox" and a brilliant system. Go figure, lol......

  Loke666

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Posts: 15540

9/22/12 7:37:41 AM#49
Originally posted by Speedhaak

I usually log in an hour or so in the morning, and then again perhaps in the evening. I'm not sure if it's because the Cities and Zones are so big but I haven't exactly been swamped in PC interaction. Compared to TERA which I played most recently where when you went out and about you'd see loads of people just questing and going about their business. Guild Wars 2 feels so empty by comparison. I'm putting my money on it being the vastness of it all, but still - it would be nice to see more than two or three players every Hour....

After all, this is MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE gaming... Ahem.

Still hangovered myself, will log in when it is gone...

But 2 or 3 players every hour? Where the ¤%& are you camping?

2-3 players every minute besides really odd times and places is what I usally see, and I play on a medium sized server.

  Ryowulf

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Joined: 8/28/05
Posts: 541

9/22/12 7:48:00 AM#50

So is the op asking a real question or trolling? What's next? "GW2 is bleeding subs?"

Here's the thing. The game was released and a lot of people bought the game, so there was people everywhere on every server.  Now the game has been out a few weeks and those people are spreading out. I for one am glad not to be moved to the overflow server every time I log in.

Add to the fact you can still move to a new server for free and I don't see the point of the op's thread (besides a fan of Tera trying to bash GW2 and suggest its failing).

  mazut

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Joined: 4/23/08
Posts: 781

9/22/12 8:07:41 AM#51
You can transfer, for free.
  Timzilla

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Posts: 358

9/22/12 9:11:51 AM#52

It's probably my fault. Sorry. Got bored with GW2 gameplay and haven't logged in over a week. Hang in there though, I might log in today.

  otacu

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Posts: 454

9/22/12 11:59:40 AM#53
Originally posted by Speedhaak

I usually log in an hour or so in the morning, and then again perhaps in the evening. I'm not sure if it's because the Cities and Zones are so big but I haven't exactly been swamped in PC interaction. Compared to TERA which I played most recently where when you went out and about you'd see loads of people just questing and going about their business. Guild Wars 2 feels so empty by comparison. I'm putting my money on it being the vastness of it all, but still - it would be nice to see more than two or three players every Hour....

 

After all, this is MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE gaming... Ahem.

GW2 empty in comparison to Tera.

 

Best laugh of the week

  User Deleted
9/22/12 6:34:49 PM#54

It's going to get worse with the slew of expansion packs coming out in the next few months, plus various big-budget F2P options... oh and as has been said, pandaland is going to get alot old wow players to return, the effects of that cannot be understated. 

 

But the competition is tough, it's good time to be a gamer this fall, but for videogame companies....beware ye whom enters the gaming arena...the competition is tough.  

 

But we gamers revel in that sort of carnage.

  Eir_S

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GW2 socialist.

9/22/12 6:39:19 PM#55
I don't see the big deal or any drastic changes from my experiences of the past.  I hardly ever saw that many people running around in WoW either, even at the height of its popularity.  In contrast, I've seen far more people in a zone than I ever did in any other MMO (though SWTOR came close), but then again the game just recently released so that probably has something to do with it.  In most MMOs, you eventually end up standing in town...

no GW2 won't kill WoW, but it's time to move on and quit worrying about those people still playing it. - eyelolled

  Nitre

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9/22/12 6:50:04 PM#56
Originally posted by Eir_S
I don't see the big deal or any drastic changes from my experiences of the past.  I hardly ever saw that many people running around in WoW either, even at the height of its popularity.  In contrast, I've seen far more people in a zone than I ever did in any other MMO (though SWTOR came close), but then again the game just recently released so that probably has something to do with it.  In most MMOs, you eventually end up standing in town...

i dunno what you are talking about but WoW servers arequite  full and ppl are running around everywhere on my realm and not only since CRZ feature. now its crazy.

  Eir_S

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GW2 socialist.

9/22/12 7:14:14 PM#57
Originally posted by Nitre
Originally posted by Eir_S
I don't see the big deal or any drastic changes from my experiences of the past.  I hardly ever saw that many people running around in WoW either, even at the height of its popularity.  In contrast, I've seen far more people in a zone than I ever did in any other MMO (though SWTOR came close), but then again the game just recently released so that probably has something to do with it.  In most MMOs, you eventually end up standing in town...

i dunno what you are talking about but WoW servers arequite  full and ppl are running around everywhere on my realm and not only since CRZ feature. now its crazy.

I played for years and it was usually about the same, and I played on a few high pop servers and several medium ones.  Maybe it's crazy now, but it never stuck out to me more than GW2.  I never said the servers weren't full.. they're full in GW2 as well, but I still see about the same amounts of people in the actual zones.

Maybe they were all stealthed.

no GW2 won't kill WoW, but it's time to move on and quit worrying about those people still playing it. - eyelolled

  Nitre

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9/22/12 7:18:41 PM#58
Originally posted by Eir_S
Originally posted by Nitre
Originally posted by Eir_S
I don't see the big deal or any drastic changes from my experiences of the past.  I hardly ever saw that many people running around in WoW either, even at the height of its popularity.  In contrast, I've seen far more people in a zone than I ever did in any other MMO (though SWTOR came close), but then again the game just recently released so that probably has something to do with it.  In most MMOs, you eventually end up standing in town...

i dunno what you are talking about but WoW servers arequite  full and ppl are running around everywhere on my realm and not only since CRZ feature. now its crazy.

I played for years and it was usually about the same, and I played on a few high pop servers and several medium ones.  Maybe it's crazy now, but it never stuck out to me more than GW2.  I never said the servers weren't full.. they're full in GW2 as well, but I still see about the same amounts of people in the actual zones.

Maybe they were all stealthed.

 

well its definetly more ppl actually out of town now. usually ppl are just hanging around in stormwind or orgrimmar for n waiting for queue.

its better now. except for ppl who play on pvp server and dont like pvp lol..cause their asses are being ganked relentlessly xF

  MyTabbycat

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Joined: 8/19/12
Posts: 264

9/22/12 8:58:24 PM#59

If you're seeing a drop in population it's probably because people are playing the new games that just hit. Monday is supposed to be a patch for GW2 to fix dungeon problems so people will be coming back to check  that out. And Wow has their expansion coming out in a few days so those people will go off to level their pandas.

GW2 will survive. It will be fine. People will come back when new content is released. Don't worry. =) The game isn't going to die.

  TeknoBug

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Joined: 10/13/07
Posts: 2113

9/23/12 8:50:20 AM#60


Originally posted by Nitre

Originally posted by Eir_S I don't see the big deal or any drastic changes from my experiences of the past.  I hardly ever saw that many people running around in WoW either, even at the height of its popularity.  In contrast, I've seen far more people in a zone than I ever did in any other MMO (though SWTOR came close), but then again the game just recently released so that probably has something to do with it.  In most MMOs, you eventually end up standing in town...
i dunno what you are talking about but WoW servers arequite  full and ppl are running around everywhere on my realm and not only since CRZ feature. now its crazy.

Depending on which side you're on with certain servers, Bladefist (my original server) is like 23:1 alliance:horde, there's only like 1200 active horde players and all my toons are horde, that's just so stupid.


Yak's Bend was loaded last night, it was almost exactly like launch day, all zones were overflowed and it took 3 hours for the WvW queue to come up (and back on Friday when Anet reset the server matchup, everyone inside WvW got kicked to Lion's Arch overflow and I saw 80+ people standing around me).


As for whoever is stuck on the empty server, if it really is empty for you guys then get with your guild and run a vote and pick a server for you all to transfer to, it's free right now.

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