Guild Wars Players Disappearing

Don't base your ideas on playerbase size on your guild's rooster. Guilds were dying off back in 2005 just aswell as in 2009.

My observations are completely different - since the April update I see significantly increased number of active players everywhere. And it's not just the concentration of players that's creating an illusion of high player activity - AT THE SAME TIME there are lots of players doing the latest zquests and there's the same or higher number of players everywhere else. The game is in far better state than it was in say March'09

for a game this old and repetitive, i play it more frequently and looking forward to play it, after doing some random pvp for the day, each night. but i do understand most of the players who moved on. you can't do much after completing the game (play through all chapters + the expansion once), unless you want to participate in competitive pvp or grind titles.

this is no rant.

What does the game offer today that makes it worth coming back for?

The only thing it has to offer for people who've been around a long time is most likely the high end pvp, however that takes a while and a lot of dedication to break in to and if it isn't well balanced or the meta is stale, people won't even bother to do that.

Old news is old. This has been happening for quite a while now.

Funny thing, when Blizzard announced new info about Diablo III, Diablo II was the top selling game for that week. People remembered how great a game it was, and went out and rebought lost copies to play it for awhile. Perhaps ANet could keep us more interested in their sequel and people would be less apt to stray if they think a new game is on the horizon instead of a few disparate pieces of concept art.

true it has been going on for a while now but it seems now more of all(because more time) that ppl are leaving and not coming back or just log on to sit there. i think if Anet hopes to keep that suspense about gw2 and hope to rack in big sales for gw2. then more info to wet the apatite of people to pull them back before the gone.

It's an old game, what do you expect?

I am sure you still play diablo1, warcraft 1 and 2...



This is just because of the diablo 3 hype. Before the announcement d2 was pretty much abandoned and full of bugs/dupes.

The PvE end of this game gets dry that when you move on and Play PvP you will find that many PvP guilds still have active rosters.

Offcourse the playerbase decreases. For various reasons mentioned:

- Lack of new content.
Nothing new in PvE world. The extra storage adds nothing playable. The Zaishen Quests are repeating old stuff. Just like they tried with the mission books a few months earlier. Nothing new storywise.

- Lack of information on future updates.
They said they would be more open. They aren't at all except that their CM can't remember what they said before on the official website.

- Lack of information on GW2.
People get tired of waiting for new GW1 content. GW2 news... where? Anet risks that other games tie their playerbase for the next few years.

- Lack of care for PvP updates.
How about some new maps? PvP has so much potential in this game and still Anet just leaves it hanging on a thin line atm. With a few delayed balance updates, wrong skill balance, their now promised PvP love has to be very good if they want to boost the morale to play PvP.

- People quit for many reasons.
The larges playerbase quits because they have real life changes that doesn't allow them to play GW everyday. Something that many GW-junkies on this forum can't understand when they sip their red-bull and play the same map for another 5 hours.

OK lets cut out all this "wahhh if we had GW2 info we'd play GW1". It's such BS. Lets also stop the "If they don't release GW2 info soon I am not going to buy it" too. I can't believe you people actually think those threats will trick Anet into releasing info about GW2. Just sit still and stfu, releasing info to you in no way will benefit them or increase sales. But what it will do is allow competitors more time to copy them.

I read this thread 3 months after factions came out.

I read this thread 2 months after Nightgall came out.

I read this thread 5 months after Nightfall came out.

I read this thread 3 months after EotN came out.

I'm not reading it again!.

A decreasing player base is really starting to cause problems though. The Dragons Throat is sometimes completely empty, and it's going to be hard for me to start my guild back up from ground level when we're losing players.

Anet should give us cheats, watch all the people come back then lol.

No, but thousands of people still play Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2. All of those games are much older than Guild Wars, no?

Also because Diablo 3 is real. We've seen gameplay, concept arts, screenshots... While Guild Wars 2 has nothing. So people can't hype about it.

Unless they are rabid fanboys that will see hours of gameplay out of one concept art from 2006.

I think they wont release new info untill aion gets released. They probably dont want to hype a game that will be release in a year while they got one about to come out now.

Abedeus whats your point really? Thousands of people still play gw aswell, so where are you trying to get? Blizzard games are only played again because they just got hyped. Before they were pretty much empty.

man.. its summer... there are better things to do than playing GW..

Activity has been on the way down for about a year now, actually longer than that, I think.
Majority of the people on my friends list (which is full) do not log on anymore and guilds I played with or were a part of, have all gone silent over time.

Well the majority I think has done what they wanted to in GW1 and are just waiting for GW2. It is still a great game but there is only so much one can take before it becomes too repetitive. My guild is lucky if we get 15 people a day now and if it wasn't for having an alliance I do not believe I would even log into the game.

If Guild Wars remained a competitive game (like it originally was) there would not be as big of an erosion of players. When GW turned into a more PvE/MMO focused game, the erosion grew exponentially when people realized no new content would be released.