Are people playing this game in 2020?

[Banha Verde YT/TTV🔥]

Are people playing this game? Looking at the peak of Steam players it seems to be pretty empty

[tracksone]

Bruh its not on steam yet LOL so idk what steam numbers your looking at but they arent real. And yes the population is large and its a top 5 populated mmo.


Also when it does launch the steam #'s wont tell you much since the vast majoirty of players will be using the stand alone launcher which #'s wont be on the steam numbers

[Banha Verde YT/TTV🔥]

Originally posted by tracksone:

Bruh its not on steam yet LOL so idk what steam numbers your looking at but they arent real. And yes the population is large and its a top 5 populated mmo.


Also when it does launch the steam #'s wont tell you much since the vast majoirty of players will be using the stand alone launcher which #'s wont be on the steam numbers

Really bro, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I hadn't released it on Steam. I am thinking of starting to play for iso I was wondering if this game has many players

[KaiStudio]

Player base is huge, you will see when you do world bosses for the first time. I play gw2 for almost 8 years and the only reason why i stick with gw2, its still one of the best and most populated mmos here. With new Steam release and new upcoming expansion they will raise a bit again.

[Banha Verde YT/TTV🔥]

Got it friends, thanks

[tonypa]

GW2 uses megaserver system where new instances of same map are created and removed dynamically as players come into or leave the map. If, let's say, each map instance has maximum player limit of 500 players, all you need to have "game full of players", is 500 players. if it had 500 or 5000, you would not notice any difference.

There are 2 ways total playerbase is notable:
- player marketplace is same for all, more players means more items are bought and sold
- WvW is not instanced, if more players attempt to join same WvW map, you will need to wait in queue

As the megaserver system means you can never actually know how many players the game has, and Anet has never released any numbers, we can only guess. We know it loses players, based on number of people joining WvW many years ago when you had constant queues on every map vs WvW now when multiple servers have been combined and maps are still commonly not queued.

Normally, if you do not care about WvW, and only want to do some light PvE, then it depends on the time you play. Off-hours (for example morning) game maps are pretty empty, you can walk around for hours exploring the maps without even seeing any other player. Towns obviously have players all the time, and special gold-farming events gather groups anyway. Once you start to move into peak hours (afternoon and evening) more and more players log in, world boss fight are always at multiple full map during this time period, all until midnight when everyone logs off and game is fairly empty again.

Notice that GW2 has 2 completely separate server systems, one for US and other for EU. If you play in US server, you can not interact with players from EU, both have separate marketplace and WvW.

[kazerniel]

Originally posted by tonypa:

If you play in US server, you can not interact with players from EU, both have separate marketplace and WvW.

Actually NA and EU share the trading post. You can also be a member of a guild on the other region, though you can never see your guildmates ingame that way.

The only version that's completely separate from NA and EU is the Chinese one. (They made significant changes to the game's monetisation.)

[Fanboy]

As a returning GW2 player I can assure you that the game is very much alive in EU and US! Metas are always (over)populated and you can find a group for nearly every content type.

Besides, GW2 is still the 2nd or 3rd (1st being WoW) played MMORPG today. So, yes, it is worth if you want a casual MMORPG grind.

[Joker]

Originally posted by tonypa:

Off-hours (for example morning) game maps are pretty empty, you can walk around for hours exploring the maps without even seeing any other player. Towns obviously have players all the time, and special gold-farming events gather groups anyway. Once you start to move into peak hours (afternoon and evening) more and more players log in, world boss fight are always at multiple full map during this time period, all until midnight when everyone logs off and game is fairly empty again.

I don't think I've ever walked around a map for more than 2-3 minutes without seeing a player, on all times of the day.
World bosses are full of people at every time off day.
I'm on EU, so unless you're on NA and that region is for some reason not very populated compared to EU, it's just not true.

I've been playing a lot at night, even on weekdays lately .. The population is great even then.

[Hemi]

Been playing again since it got announced for Steam... And I can say, the player base is still huge. It's very rewarding to work with a massive group on Dragonfall towards the meta. And the people are very helpful. Want that chest but a jumping puzzle is too hard? There is always someone around who will teleport you to the chest. It's great, so much love. :-)