Is the game DEAD?

[TTVTheShadySaiyan]

just wanted yalls thought since i dont really see many players

[ah_puch]

Publicado originalmente por 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.

It's been like that for years. Even the "pve endgame" focused guilds were not responding or joining to fractal or dungeon invites in guild chats and instead chatting about what they were having for dinner. I don't blame them though, game is in maintenance mode so no one was excited to repeat a non existent endgame, abandoned instanced content or old world bosses for abysmal loot

[Tahl]

I see blue names running around in starting areas half a year away from the steam launch(let alone last expansion). I sit in party finder for less time than half the quess in other games. I have to update my game to a new patch every week/two. Literally a few days ago they announced they have increased the dev team size and have made some hints about upcoming content.(which are typically Living-world-seasons between expansions btw. A lot of people focus on the expansions and think LWSeasons are tiny events or something, they arent. Some are nearly expansion sized. They just done usually have the bells and whistles such as mounts/sub-classes. Usually.)

[KenoZuki]

Publicado originalmente por 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.

My guild is pretty active I would say, we have several regular events throughout the week, about 30-60 people online depending on the time of day, and people usually looking to do something.

The only real issue, is finding people who are willing to be the one to decide to want to do something and set it up :D

Have you tried being the one to decide that you wanna do something, and see if anyone wants to join?

[KenoZuki]

Personally, I have found that the game is however active/social you want it to be, there are plenty of people to play with, but you gotta be the one to set something up. If you arent willing to host, and are just sitting around with your thumb up your bumhole, then chances are, you will be bored

[Mellowdy]

OP hasn't even played the game, this is a troll.

[DarkSlayer197]

Publicado originalmente por SamWhitetail:

OP hasn't even played the game, this is a troll.

Ehhh. Op could have. I don't play through Steam, so it won't say in the Steam forums that I own the game.

[Chromaki]

Most of the player base do not use steam. The numbers on Steam are a small percentage of the actual player base. Don't judge steam numbers for this game. Players are everywhere.

[ah_puch]

Publicado originalmente por Chromaki:

Most of the player base do not use steam. The numbers on Steam are a small percentage of the actual player base. Don't judge steam numbers for this game. Players are everywhere.

That goes for other mmos as well and yet when you compare GW2 steam numbers to those, GW2 has 75% smaller playerbase. Numbers don't lie. "No one plays on Steam" is proven to be nothing but an excuse and yet that's the only argument everyone clings to.

[Tahl]

Publicado originalmente por ah_puch:

Publicado originalmente por Chromaki:

Most of the player base do not use steam. The numbers on Steam are a small percentage of the actual player base. Don't judge steam numbers for this game. Players are everywhere.

That goes for other mmos as well and yet when you compare GW2 steam numbers to those, GW2 has 75% smaller playerbase. Numbers don't lie. "No one plays on Steam" is proven to be nothing but an excuse and yet that's the only argument everyone clings to.

What other MMO spent 10 years off Steam? Without transferable accounts no less?
What your implying is that some significant portion of the community would drop their account they may have had for nearly a decade, to repurchase expansions and play on steam?

[ah_puch]

Publicado originalmente por Tahlaon:

What your implying is that some significant portion of the community would drop their account they may have had for nearly a decade, to repurchase expansions and play on steam?

Not at all. What I'm implying is how unpopular the game is to new players. They failed to entice players to play even for free. That speaks volumes.

Not to mention the several desperate tricks old players used on steam to falsely bolster player numbers and review and still came short. Even after finding a way to use anet account on steam client and still couldn't surpass 8k peak. That shows the current 4,280 players consists even less new players

[Tahl]

Publicado originalmente por ah_puch:

Publicado originalmente por Tahlaon:

What your implying is that some significant portion of the community would drop their account they may have had for nearly a decade, to repurchase expansions and play on steam?

Not at all. What I'm implying is how unpopular the game is to new players. They failed to entice players to play even for free. That speaks volumes.

Not to mention the several desperate tricks old players used on steam to falsely bolster player numbers and review and still came short. Even after finding a way to use anet account on steam client and still couldn't surpass 8k peak. That shows the current 4,280 players consists even less new players

Okay... but to be clear, that doesnt line up with your last post. Regardless...
4800ish players on rn given that its a fraction of the community and GW is not an afk sim, that isnt bad.
Also, what do you mean by 'tricks' to 'bolster player numbers'?
Running the game client from steam is done by running the launcher as a 'non-steam game' in library or just from the exe. It wont show you playing the game on steam... though again, it just seems like you are trying to suggest the Anet account users have moved to steam to justify your previous statement. If so, thats un-sourced and extremely conspiratorial. If not, I dont know why you threw that in there.

[ah_puch]

Publicado originalmente por Tahlaon:

Okay... but to be clear, that doesnt line up with your last post. Regardless...
4800ish players on rn given that its a fraction of the community and GW is not an afk sim, that isnt bad.

It's tiny compared to the big three. Also, a lot of those 4800 is using the trick to count as a steam player so the real concurrent number is much lower. Embarrassing.

Publicado originalmente por Tahlaon:

Also, what do you mean by 'tricks' to 'bolster player numbers'?
Running the game client from steam is done by running the launcher as a 'non-steam game' in library or just from the exe. It wont show you playing the game on steam... though again, it just seems like you are trying to suggest the Anet account users have moved to steam to justify your previous statement. If so, thats un-sourced and extremely conspiratorial. If not, I dont know why you threw that in there.

Sounds like you're not even aware of the trick and didn't do your research before deeming it "unsourcred and extremely conspirational" hehe. Come back when you at least know a little bit about what is being talked about.. I won't link it here because we don't need more desperate players to falsely bolster steam numbers now do we?

[Sixty Percent]

SWTOR has almost 3 times more steam players than GW2, and SWTOR has been dead since year 2

[Tuathaqin]

Publicado originalmente por Sixty Percent:

SWTOR has almost 3 times more steam players than GW2, and SWTOR has been dead since year 2

It's a very good single player game.

[sounar]

haha troll trolling