playercount

[Anunnaki27]

hi i know the player count on steam is not the overall
but any data for Overall players ?
Im scared when the player count is low ...
i dont wanna waste my time

greetings

[✨Saint✨]

Originally posted by Anunnaki27:

hi i know the player count on steam is not the overall
but any data for Overall players ?
Im scared when the player count is low ...
i dont wanna waste my time

greetings

This should give you an idea about population & more:

https://mmo-population.com/r/guildwars2

[Sychon]

(Cue the doom and gloom from certain individuals... You know who you are!)

No MMO will tell you how big their active playerbase is. Especially not with exact numbers. Any website will only provide an educated guess based on circumstantial information.

Best thing about this game: base game is free. Hop in and see how many players are roaming the zones. Hint: SteamDB concurrent player count is orders of magnitude lower than actual, at any given time. The overwhelming majority of players don't use Steam to log in.

[Hood R.]

Just make sure you pick a busy server and you will be overwelmd by the amount of players, WVW has upto 60+ players in queu during weekends. It's free so give it a try!

[Dr. Electrocutioner]

It depends where you are and if there is an event going on.

Central Tyria always seems to have a decent amount of people, and new expansions are flooded.

Areas of previous expansions with no world boss event are more sparsely populated.

[Dj El Marriachi]

I'm a relatively new player and the game is quite crowded. Main hubs are bustling. What i like is that even in the old content you run into players everywhere.

[Sychon]

Originally posted by Hood R.:

Just make sure you pick a busy server and you will be overwelmd by the amount of players, WVW has upto 60+ players in queu during weekends. It's free so give it a try!

Choosing a "server" has absolutely no bearing on how many players you will encounter in game. The only relevant choice that way is choosing between the EU or the NA megaserver and both are equally populated.

So much so, that in a coming update, ANet are going to remove world selection and replace it with a choice between those two megaservers instead.

For reference, find the "Competitive Updates" section in this official blog post:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/studio-update-wrapping-up-2024/

[Shurpy]

I just came back to the game less than a week and there's players everywhere doing group content

[ebaG-gamma]

The playerbase for structured Arena-style PvP (mostly 5v5) is pretty small, which makes satisfying matchmaking hard.
The raiding scene also isn't as big as in some other MMOs though, due to the relatively high mechanical complexity of the game.
Open world populations are all around very healthy though. You constantly bump into other players when you do events. You can easily find players for almost all activities; even for less popular ones like the original dungeons with some asking around.

I wouldn't worry about player numbers at this point, and if story and exploration gameplay are something that you can see yourself enjoying, it's worth it just for that alone. For those, you don't even need massive player numbers, if they were to dwindle sometime down the line.

[Aggrogoat]

just find a community worth being a part of and you'll never feel lonely playing guild wars 2

open world has significant playerbase you can find just walking around active areas with 'meta' events

You have to be in the active timezone for WvW otherwise it's mostly roaming/objective trading

dungeon content is mostly dead, but that was a thing only core gw2 did, so no biggie there

fractals (an evolution of the dungeon system) are more populated

You can play GW2 pretty much as a singleplayer experience and in a majority of cases (MAYBE Heart of Thorns hero points would give you trouble, with some classes) you'll be alright. The game has a lot of checklist content for the avid explorer.

[Atrial]

If you want so pvp on bg/arena (5x5 or so) - there is definitely low player base. Futhermore, LFG is somehow dead no in prime time. Overall amount of people is healthy, but do not wait great social aspect 95% of time your chat will be dead and you dont need to communicate with other players

[ebaG-gamma]

Originally posted by Aggressive Goat:

The game has a lot of checklist content for the avid explorer.

Sorry for the off-topic and personal opinion, but checklist and explore do not belong in the same sentence.
Ticking off checklists is for errand boys (or girls); adventurers explore, which means more than blindly running from map marker to map marker.
True exploration is when you go somewhere and do something without the game telling you to do so via a marker, an achievement, or any other requirement, but just because you are curious. Unlike many other open world games, GW2 rewards this kind of exploration.

[Aggrogoat]

Originally posted by ebaG-gamma:

nitpicking nonsense

apology not accepted you meanie

[RotherHans]

Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:

https://mmo-population.com

:saint:

garbage clickbait site
should be blacklisted

[Tiberius]

Outside the most popular meta events, you'll have problem finding ppl. Even the last xpac, SotO meta rarely gets done these days (except on weekend). Nevertheless, most pve content in gw2 are soloable.

And btw op, ever since SoTo,the latest xpac will always follow early access model. The story, the map, the endgame content (legendary crafting) are not yet finished

[Uma Purpura]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Outside the most popular meta events, you'll have problem finding ppl. Even the last xpac, SotO meta rarely gets done these days (except on weekend). Nevertheless, most pve content in gw2 are soloable.

Are you playing a different game or something? Since the first day SotO came out I never once had a problem doing the metas, no matter what time of day there was at the very least one or two groups doing it. Same thing these days, whenever I want to do those metas, absolutely 0 problems. Even when I just joined random maps it was super easy to find folks doing it because the maps are always full with people. I also rarely, and I'm really stressing the word rarely, had problems finding folks to do the older and less popular metas as well. Even if there were no groups, I just created one and people joined, we had a group filled rather quickly