PracticalShutIn

The gem price isn't controlled by supply and demand.  It is affected by it, but anet has all but admitted it's not completely dependent on players buying/selling gems.  The price is gradually inflated despite player actions.  Realistically, with the higher the price, the less likely players would be willing to convert gems into gold, and so the graph would be buffered by purchases in the other direction.

People in-game now are reaaaaally reluctant to buy gems with gold.  In September people were buying bank space and bag slots like crazy and it stayed pretty even each day.  That's the point we should have seen a lot of volatility.  At some point it started rising and never returned.  I think this is the point where Anet decided to inflate.

As the game has gone on, it has been harder to make money, as well as more important to make money. The graph should have been dropping as of ascended.

Also, there's pretty much no one disagreeing in guild or map chat that there was a nerf to loot rates.  And those opinions mean more than forumers because they are based on individual experience, rather than jumping on a bandwagon in a forum (in either way).

For the eleventyith time, this topic is not about the game dying, it's about small guilds with few people online merging to make a bigger, active guild, even on active servers.

I really thought it would be possible to just speak to people who take what you say and respond to it.  The way you can in person.  I was hoping this forum would have people who talked to each other like guildmates rather than competitors.

Is there any way to have this thread locked?  It turned into a trainwreck and won't do anyone any good now.

I said guilds are dying and no I didn't mean they left to join other guilds.  The guild roster is still the same but with 7/35 having logged in since the last update (the rest are in Location "Unknown").  The population has definitely dropped since the start, as you could expect with any game.  I have no idea if it's on the rise or fall, that's why I say the game isn't dying but it's population is not great anymore.


A server listing saying "Full" doesn't mean "Full of people online right now playing".  They have to be ready for all of those who have abandoned GW2 to pop back online during a special event, so they don't let more people join a server than they can handle being online at once.  Full = "If every account who has been a member of this server came online, we would be at max load.  So no transfers to this server until slots are created by others vacating".

Man this was started asking for ideas about how better the game for lots of people and becoming more multiplayer, and it has turned into a courtroom.  So many took the attitude from the start that this was a place to attack/defend the game.  No one needs be threatened by the idea because it's entirely voluntary. Sheesh.

Asudementio, on 08 December 2012 - 06:14 PM, said:

Then yours obviously wouldn't merge.

Did it come across as my idea being some kind of auto merge where people are forced to play with others like kids whose parents are friends?

I have been talking about voluntary merging with similar guilds (for those that are small/dying or in-between-guilds), just needing a way to find them.

And can we stop talking about whether the game is dying or not, that's off topic and should never have been a part of this thread.