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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
Originally posted by Eir_SI 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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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.
GW2 empty in comparison to Tera.
Best laugh of the week
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.
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
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.
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.