Guild Wars Players Disappearing

It seems that for the past few months the activeness of Members and players has greatly Decreased. i fear that in a few more months it will be just as bad or worse. What do you all think? Look at your guild rosters.

I ate them.

No seriously GW has been slowly going down for a while, expect it to fluxuate.

I think it's because the game is getting too repetitive, even with the Zaishen missions (which are being repeated instead of new ones being added), as people have already completed them.

The lack of good updates isn't helping matters either. Players look forward to new and improved gameplay and instead get an update full of bugs, making them lose interest in the game even more. There's only so much you can do on this game before it starts to get boring. Hopefully Guild Wars 2 will come out soon, or at least the beta, so the game will get its spunk back.

Lack of new content is lacking.

If you want new content, just wait for Guild Wars 2, then you'll have tons of new content. If ANet would make new content for GW1 it would just push the release date of GW2 back again.

And it seems like alot of new people have joined in the GW1-team, so we can expect good updates every few months, like the one we had on the anniversary.

But it's pretty bad of ANet not to put new ZQuest in (there's still tons of missions which haven't had their turn yet) and just repeat the cycle again...

I was unable to play GW for 2.5 weeks, but after the exams (they end tuesday), I'll play GW alot again, during the 2 months of vacation . For me there's still alot of things to do, though I'm done with most parts of PvP, and also have GWAMM. Not the most fun things to do, but I'm still excited about it, and motivated enough to keep me going.

When/If Anet accounce the rewards for the Hall of Monuments should get some players back to work toward GW2.

Not to mention when the GW2 beta nears people will be coming back in the MASSES trying to get into it.

No new content.
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No new information about GW2
=Nobody Playing GW

I believe the bit about the HoM rewards for GW2 is true, but I believe they will announce the awards RIGHT before release, to reduce QQ over the insufficiency/over sufficiency of the rewards.

I also don't see a public beta for GW2 until a few months at most before release. Although this is an unusually short amount of time before a game releases, it seems to be the direction anet is going in. It will probably be a very public beta aswell, which means you do not need to log in to gw1 to get access. That said, if the current timeline for GW2 is 2010-2011, with Anet's current track record, expect a beta and HoM rewards announced in Q3 2011 and release on Dec. 31st 2011.

To the OP, GW players have been fluctuating since factions release. I've gone through nearly 3 full friends' lists of people I knew more than just casually. Player numbers are lower than ever because there are no new campaigns or expansions, which anet knew would happen when they started work on their bold new project (GW2). However, what I find disappointing is that Anet is no better than other companies in that they will try to inflate numbers by saying how many copies have been sold, but not how many active players there actually are.

I don't blame them for it though. Why expose your weakness?

It has something to do with the game getting old, it also has something to do with it being summer. Activity always drops in the summer. People go on vacations, or they only played Guild Wars because it was a great time killer after classes if you go to a University.

Once September comes around activity will start to rise again. Of course not everyone will come back, because every month there are people who leave the game for good. But those people who are coming back from vacations or only played Guild Wars when they had a lot of free time with little else to do will be back.

2 of my friends just got the game and I've been playing more now because of them, but I admit it is disheartening that they didn't have a chance to go through the low level areas back when the game was still new and there were plenty of people doing every mission. I don't think it's changed too much though just recently, and has been a more gradual process as one would expect from an aging MMO that focuses on end-game content.

As far as people quitting in large numbers out of boredom, the alliance I'm in hasn't been having any more quitters recently than normal.

It's inevitable when you have a game that doesn't require a monthly payment or a long grind. You do everything and then there's nothing left to do. You have three choices -
A) Do it all over again
B) Take a break
C) Move on

With a game that is over 4 years old, B and C are becoming more common.

I might come back to the game if I get to play on my laptop a bit. Just got a new account and I tried dual-running GW and running myself (hehe) through Vizunah. And thanks to a bug in the mission (Togo went ahead of the team, Mhenlo stayed to wand an Afflicted, Togo dies before my heroes manage to get to him), I rage-quit and don't want to touch Cantha for now.

There's also option D. Go grind titles like Luxon, Treasure Hunter and stuff. If you've done all the possible titles (that's like 36-37), you can still put all possible items in your HoM. And you can also set some goals for your own, like collecting all greens and stuff.

But D, is ofcourse only for the very dedicated players, I guess.

Old games get old sometimes

Except for Blizzard games.

Or you could actually...I don't know.....PvP?

Learning to GvG and improving at it would keep you in the game for a year, and then once your actually good, you can continue to play and now compete in monthlies until GW2 comes out.

My guild's roster is as active as its ever been since I joined. THIS MEANS THAT YOU ARE WRONG.

Diablo 2 is 10 Years old and theres still 35,000-40,000+ Still playing each day (me one of them). I think it is a silly excuse to say a game is too old to play.

Any well-designed competitive game can be played forever.

... the question at this point is whether GW is a well-designed competitive game.

^ No.

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