Lordkrall, on 25 February 2013 - 06:33 PM, said:
Well, try leaving the cities and you will find people quite frequently, or stop playing in the middle of the night.
I have yet to see a single day (or area for that matter) where I have not met people.
Actually I would say the "inactivity" of these forums is because of people actually enjoying the game.
It is after all mostly people that don't like the game that spend their time whining about it on fan-forums.
Here are some facts that I think you should know. I am interested to see your fanboy reaction to these. I assume you will dismiss then with your normal un-proveable rhetoric, such as "people aren't on the forums because they are playing the game."
Guild Wars 2 Sales in the first 6 months: At least 3 million copies. (See:
http://www.ign.com/a...-plans-revealed)
Guild Wars Prophecies Sales as of Sept. 22, 2005 (5 months after release): 1 million copies. (See:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/NCsoft)
Approximate Number of threads posted in the "Tyrian Assembly" Section of GW2 Guru site since GW2's release (Aug. 28, 2012 - Feb 25, 2013): 3,150 (see: this site)
Approximate Number of threads posted in the "Riverside Inn" section of the GW1 Guru site in the first 6 months of GW1's release (April. 28, 2005 - Oct. 25, 2005): 4,220 (see. guildwarsguru.com - page #'s are around 1,125 to 914, 20 threads per page.)
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Why do I post these numbers? Because, I think we can take at least some information from them.
First, let's look at the number of posts vs. the number of copies sold:
1. GW2: 3,150 posts / 3 million copies = 0.1%
2. GW1: 4,220 posts / 1 million copies = 0.4%
That is a 400% increase in the amount of threads made based on the number of copies sold!
Second, let's look at the difference in the amount of threads made:
4,220 (GW1) - 3,150 (GW2) = 1,070 threads
That is about 25% less threads in the same amount of time from one site to the other.
I never took statistics, but I would be willing to bet that if you accounted for the amount of games sold vs. the difference in the amount of threads made, it would be a fairly shocking number.
The question, is why is this happening? Perhaps people don't use Guru as the #1 forums to go to, it could be that people don't post on forums anymore, it could be that people are too busy playing the game...
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Or, it could be that there are less people playing this game, especially relative to the amount of people that bought the game, and that is directly related to the fact that the game isn't as good as everyone thought it would be when their expectations were based on how good GW1 was.
The last thing I would point out, is that if you get a chance to look at the guildwarsguru.com forums, you will see that there is much much less pessimism about the game mechanics - and much more talk about the game itself.
Unfortunately, I could not look at the site wide statistics, as it would have taken much more time. But, I think the evidence is certainly startling to say the least.
In fact, I am going to use this info for a new thread.
Edited by El Duderino, 25 February 2013 - 08:40 PM.
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