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"Guild Wars 2’s monthly active user base has doubled to 3.1 million"
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I saw this post on reddit.com/r/Guildwars2.
Here's the actual source.
And then the quote.
"“Guild Wars 2 has proven pretty resilient historically, with about 1.5 million monthly actives,” SuperData Research CEO Joost van Dreunen says. “Since it switched to free-to-play in late August, Guild Wars 2’s monthly active user base has doubled to 3.1 million (October 2015). "
Here's the actual source.
And then the quote.
"“Guild Wars 2 has proven pretty resilient historically, with about 1.5 million monthly actives,” SuperData Research CEO Joost van Dreunen says. “Since it switched to free-to-play in late August, Guild Wars 2’s monthly active user base has doubled to 3.1 million (October 2015). "
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Haters gonna hate, every single time.
I think it's the one MMO that hit the much-sought-after sweet spot of a WoW-clone that is just different enough to be somewhat interesting to WoW fans, but not too different to scare them away.
When I was playing solo -- or even with friends -- it was all about rolling / running away as a plate wearing warrior and hoping RNG didn't screw me and instead screwed my friends with vines two shotting them with all ascended gear (not a fan of acting like a coward as a melee in games). My friend is pissed about this in particular, as the base game was misleading in that she thought the expansion could be solo'd without any problems like how the 1-80 experience was.
Did Druids and Glint help with this any? The healing and AoE 33% damage reduction?
It had been a while and i had no idea what i was doing, and i really didnt want to ditch my 80's and start from scratch.
Well I guess every MMORPG is a WoW clone cause there is very little similar between GW2 and WoW and if one is a clone of the other then every MMO out there must be a WoW clone.
Just saying it sounds like you have not played GW2 at all if you call it a WoW clone..
3.1 millions are pretty good but it could certainly be better.
As for HOT not being solofriendly that is true, or at least that it is less solofriendly than the earlier content. Personally I think that is good, working together for a common goal is always more fun to me and GW2 still have plenty of soloable content but making all open world content for soloers takes out a lot of the charm of a game.
And we seen not so solofriendly zones earlier as well, Orr did get nerfed to be more solofriendly but places like Silvermarches are still group zones. I could live with them nerfing Verdant brink though so there is one more solofriendly place in maguuma but stay away from the others.
But they are from Stupordata so the figures don't carry the same weight.
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Guild Wars II doubles its active users to 3.1 million "Sucky game it will die off"
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Only difference I noticed was you could dodge and block. Hardly groundbreaking.
I got bored with it and stopped playing it after just a few days, despite having spent money on it.
You probably played a lot of WoW and liked it. GW2 to you seems incredibly different, but not different enough to scare you away like other games might. This is what I mean by the sweet spot of WoW clones.
Secondly,i have mentioned this already several times,Esports are ruling the market and ruining the market.
I notice Anet has signed a deal with ESL to become an esport and i find that laughable because GW2 is anything but an esport.
The road we are heading down is all about money and FAKE money and poor ideals.Just like we see every game calling itself an mmo now we will see non esport games becoming epsorts just because they make monetary deals to call themselves such.
You can say i am biased whatever but imo fps's are the ONLY game that suits a real esport because you can create a PERFECT even playing field aside from internet latency.However once you get to big tournaments that is usually done on a lan anyhow.All these other games are not balanced,at least not perfectly the way a fps is,they are using classes and various setups for each player and various gear and upgrades,anything but a level playing field.
ESPORT is derived from the word sport,sport needs to have an even playing field.Any game using intangibles should not be an esport.
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Ouch you really got no clue about this game. Hands down the best mmorpg ever made with the best management I have ever seen. No I'm not a fanboi but not many people can honestly say very many bad things about this game.
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Nevertheless, you will not understand GW2's uniqueness until you play to max level and beyond.
Edit: It was not ANet claiming those numbers. It was superdata claiming them just on the month after GW2 went F2P, not people continuing to play. This same company estimates 6% of F2P MMO users keep playing.