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Benderama · Mar 20, 2010, 03:23 PM // 15:23

hey, not sure if this is the right section and all so sorry in advance D:
has anyone else noticed that there are more players in Guild wars at the moment? or at least more players outside of major towns. today i was going around elona and cantha and i noticed outposts like HzH, kodash bazaar and some further in game mission outposts had quite a few people in (none of the missions were Zquests). i've also seen more threads on guru asking about startgin GW. so again: is it just me or are there actually more people logging into guild wars?

Yawgmoth · Mar 20, 2010, 04:46 PM // 16:46

Maybe they have been crystal desert outposts with people going to farm some Jawbones for Nick?
I haven't noticed any increase, but rather a sad slow decrease with every month. But it's not anything dramatic. It's just GW is a mere shade of what it was even 2 years ago.

Braxton619 · Mar 20, 2010, 04:52 PM // 16:52

I haven't been seeing more people play GW. Pretty much all outposts that are not main ones are empty. The population of GW is decreasing every day.

wilebill · Mar 20, 2010, 05:03 PM // 17:03

Checked. Yes, more than usual at the moment. Special weekend of some kind? Checked around Nightfall, Prophecies, and Factions. Plenty in Fort Aspenwood.

New games of recent sort of played out maybe. Everyone comes back. Or, ANet has fielded new bots to give the impression of more players. heh heh.

Regulus X · Mar 20, 2010, 05:34 PM // 17:34

Do they all have jibberish names, run towards signs, and move in an awkwardly similar fashion?

If so, then they're simply bots.

Either way, those people are probably either doing guild runs, soloing, or H/Hing things because PUGing is simply and forever out of the question [because H/H listen; real players bring baed builds, lie, Leeroy the monsters, piss everyone off, throw hissy fits because healers couldn't keep up with their fail, and the list can go on and on and on and...].

**cosyfiep** · Mar 20, 2010, 05:56 PM // 17:56

its spring break for a lot of the kids...maybe some are playing gw this weekend?
There are usually more people playing on weekends than during the week as well.

Sir Baddock · Mar 20, 2010, 06:23 PM // 18:23

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Originally Posted by Yawgmoth

Maybe they have been crystal desert outposts with people going to farm some Jawbones for Nick?
I haven't noticed any increase, but rather a sad slow decrease with every month. But it's not anything dramatic. It's just GW is a mere shade of what it was even 2 years ago.

I hear you there, Guild Wars in it's prime was packed, 12 districts for AB more AB Servers, JQ Servers, just more servers now there's such a decrease in the amount of players we're lucky to see 1 District in AB, JQ, FA, etc. I tend to base the population on Spamadan, used to have 5 - 6 districts filled about 4 - 5 months ago, now only 1 - 2 districts are full.

DBMan · Mar 20, 2010, 07:31 PM // 19:31

Looks the same to me.

Karate Jesus · Mar 20, 2010, 07:56 PM // 19:56

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Originally Posted by cosyfiep

its spring break for a lot of the kids...maybe some are playing gw this weekend?
There are usually more people playing on weekends than during the week as well.

^ It's Spring Break for most of the kids in my Ally and they're all online (I just checked). Personally, I would have gone and done something for a week at their age, but whatever.

Give it a week or two and the population will go right back down.

jonnieboi05 · Mar 20, 2010, 08:30 PM // 20:30

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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

^ It's Spring Break for most of the kids in my Ally and they're all online (I just checked). Personally, I would have gone and done something for a week at their age, but whatever.

Give it a week or two and the population will go right back down.

This.

Guild Wars is still as dead as ever and steadily declining.

worstnameevar · Mar 20, 2010, 08:50 PM // 20:50

Actually, spring breaks around the US are rather staggered, so a higher-than-normal population could be present for quite a few weeks into the middle of April.

Shadey · Mar 20, 2010, 09:07 PM // 21:07

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Originally Posted by JonnieBoi05

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Guild Wars is still as dead as ever and steadily declining.

Lies!

Just because GW is dead for you doesnt make it "dead"

QueenofDeath · Mar 20, 2010, 09:20 PM // 21:20

No noticeable increase here GW is dead still in population. It seems to get a spike when there are EASY Nicholas items to go after or some HOLIDAY special like we just had with St. Pattys Day. If anything has grown though it's the population of NOOBS as most of the veterans have left. Fort Aspenwood is running over with them today. Gah I never seen so many stupid people in one place in all my life.

Tenebrae · Mar 20, 2010, 09:33 PM // 21:33

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Originally Posted by Shadey

Lies!

Just because GW is dead for you doesnt make it "dead"

Sorry but just because you are not a 4-5year GW player doesnt make it "alive"

Lord Dagon · Mar 20, 2010, 09:46 PM // 21:46

eh honestly in major towns i dont notice any difference.. but when you get into higher end game its really noticable( i acctualyl got a pug earlier for the gate of pain mission, somethign i couldnt acomplish 3 weeks ago).

so in the major towns not really.. but in higher end theres alot more then usual i think.

EPO Bot · Mar 20, 2010, 09:55 PM // 21:55

Zmissions are still pretty much alive. You never fail to get a group as long as you stick to the mission of the day.

Reborn007 · Mar 20, 2010, 11:01 PM // 23:01

You will most probably find that there are more people in towns as there aint much sustainable running anymore and it's back to the daily ginding of titles. There used to be 3 districts at doomlore, umbral grotto, TOA and many other. The first two are down to only one district all the time now. Anet are slowly running the game down for when GW2 comes out and expect you to part with your hard earned bucks again.

UnChosen · Mar 21, 2010, 04:41 AM // 04:41

Really? I think its the opposite. Every dungeon outposts are now virtually ghost towns. ToA doesn't seem to have nearly as many people during time I'm on (evening). DoA is even more empty than usual.

If there are any place where there maybe more people its spamming towns, Rata Sum, and Longeye's Ledge.

Zebideedee · Mar 21, 2010, 02:27 PM // 14:27

Lions Arch has had 4-5 Districts over the past few days although I've noticed a lot less people selling stuff in Kamadan, not sure what to make of that, maybe new players are looking forward to GW2 and want to try the original GW first, your guess is as good as mine

Spiritz · Mar 21, 2010, 03:59 PM // 15:59

Hard to say - i did wonder 2 weeks ago when i was mod hunting why i wasnt able for a gd 30 mins to get in ae d1 at kamadan as i kept getting district is full message - never seen it like that outside of an event before.
Could be players are now playing the game and having to work thru instead of being ran everywhere or going for titles - we`ll probably never know ( or a bot invasion lol ) .