Is the game DEAD?

[YTTheShadySaiyan]

just wanted yalls thought since i dont really see many players

[ah_puch]

Originally posted by Gh0st.exe:

Yeah, no, im gonna need a source on that. I mean, you always go "nah, that doesnt reflect the actual number!!!!" once someone links a population site, so i would really love to know where you got the number of the entire GW2 population from. Assuming that you dont try to push the "Arenanet themselve said it" lie again that was already debunked multiple times.

No, it wasn't debunked at all. Unless you mean debunked by "mmopopulation" which still counts Wildstar has 1 million active players...

Go ahead, link the "population site" once again. You and everyone else knows the only real population metric is steamcharts, which is why it's so hard to swallow it's doing so unpopular on steam. I understand the pain.

Originally posted by Gh0st.exe:

Interesting. In past posts you claimed that Arenanet is money hungry because they dont put out that much content but demand money for non-essential things. Meanwhile ESO brings out "tons of new content" which you have to pay for every single time, locks stuff behind a paywall you get for free in GW2 (as far as i know the material stash is an example for that), but thats somehow a sign of good and not greedy devs?

You can buy bag and bank space for little in game gold in ESO. Material stash? Lmao. Did you mean ESO put out new content dlc you have to pay for? That's how dlc works. So you'd rather not have any new content and stay in maintenance mode like in GW2? Gotcha.

Originally posted by Gh0st.exe:

And yet LOTRO has only about 1/3 of GW2s playercount on Steam, which according to your is the only valid measure of success. Kinda invalidates the whole point you are trying to make.

That wasn't the point though. "Only valid measure of success" lol I never said that once. Success is a combination of playerbase + active development. It's funny how a much older game like LOTRO is getting more content in a year than GW2 got in 5 years.

GW2 has been in maintenance mode for years now and funny with all that "success" they just announced they can't even do a proper expansion or full living world anymore. Seems sus bud.

Originally posted by Gh0st.exe:

You are the only one here so dead-focussed on comparing the game with the "big three" and claiming that the game is that because it doesnt pull in X players on Steam (while ignoring every non-Steam player)

Not really, there were tons of false information and fake popularity campaigns started on reddit before I even came here. Including the infamous reddit campaign "come on guys lets all download steam and rate 5 stars lets goooo" which resulted in an embarrassing failure that was a 8k peak ;)

Originally posted by Gh0st.exe:

Neither is making "absolute" claims like "ESO playernumber on Steam alone is bigger than GW2s entire population", implying that other games dont suffer from the exact same problems that get brought up against GW2

Exact same problems? Did ESO or LOTRO launch a new expansion then have a 12 month full year long content drought afterwards? Your usual go to argument is the "but monthly sub reee" doesn't work here either. So what's the answer? Gotta make up your mind here.

[Plüschtiger]

Originally posted by ah_puch:

No, it wasn't debunked at all. Unless you mean debunked by "mmopopulation.com" which still counts Wildstar has 1 million active players...

Go ahead, link the "population site" once again. You and everyone else knows the only real population metric is steamcharts, which is why it's so hard to swallow it's doing so unpopular on steam. I understand the pain.

Valve blocked the link because it was potentially harmful. One could now interpret a number of things into the fact. (translated) :-)

[Tuathaqin]

Originally posted by Plüschtiger:

Originally posted by ah_puch:

No, it wasn't debunked at all. Unless you mean debunked by "mmopopulation.com" which still counts Wildstar has 1 million active players...

Go ahead, link the "population site" once again. You and everyone else knows the only real population metric is steamcharts, which is why it's so hard to swallow it's doing so unpopular on steam. I understand the pain.

Valve blocked the link because it was potentially harmful. One could now interpret a number of things into the fact. (translated) :-)

That's because it was badly formatted. Maybe intentionally? Nah, surely not.
Here it is, without the bunny rabbit ears and the correct spelling; https://mmo-population.com/

[Plüschtiger]

Originally posted by Tuathaqin:

Originally posted by Plüschtiger:

Valve blocked the link because it was potentially harmful. One could now interpret a number of things into the fact. (translated) :-)

That's because it was badly formatted. Maybe intentionally? Nah, surely not.
Here it is, without the bunny rabbit ears and the correct spelling; https://mmo-population.com/

What was going on on April 9th where the enormous increase is? (translated)

[Demonsouls1993]

The amount of people who don't understand the word dead is amazing is the game shut down no then its not dead

[Tuathaqin]

Originally posted by Demonsouls1993:

The amount of people who don't understand the word dead is amazing is the game shut down no then its not dead

To be fair, it's not wrong to call a multiplayer game devoid of players dead. Simply being online is not enough. It's just that saying GW2 is dead is categorically and laughably untrue.

[ah_puch]

Originally posted by Demonsouls1993:

The amount of people who don't understand the word dead is amazing is the game shut down no then its not dead

GW1 is not dead either. See how that works?

[Demonsouls1993]

Originally posted by ah_puch:

Originally posted by Demonsouls1993:

The amount of people who don't understand the word dead is amazing is the game shut down no then its not dead

GW1 is not dead either. See how that works?

Guess what GW1 isn't dead if it was they would shut the severs off learn what dead means before using it

[ah_puch]

Originally posted by Demonsouls1993:

Guess what GW1 isn't dead if it was they would shut the severs off learn what dead means before using it

That wasn't what was meant but you can keep repeating the "servers online game not dead" argument if you wish, I don't know who you are addressing with that though since no one here claimed that.

[Frost]

Credit where credit is due. You’ve gotta admit, he is a master at moving the goalposts.

[ah_puch]

Originally posted by Profile Name:

But I use my 10 year old gw2 account on steam. You can with a launch com.and use any old gw2 account on the steam version.
I do this for the convenience of steam and also to bolster the player count a tad

That means the real steam numbers are even lower than the current 3k since players found a way to artifically bolster the numbers xD

Flashback to that embarrassing reddit campaign "let's all download steam and make positive reviews lets gooo" > 8k peak

[Mooselager]

is this game good if i want to practice kissing on the lips? pls serious answers mocha only

[Pinkspring]

I wonder what kind of people want to give the impression a game is dead when it isnt. And why.

[STATIS]

https://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/
go to any of those boss events. you'll see how "dead" the game really is. if you can see past all the spell effects.

[Zigzagman]

It's not dead per say but good luck finding an active guild. They all login and do daily missions and log. I have been looking for an active guild for weeks and its been a crap show. Its just a chat room at this point unless someone knows something I don't.