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Yes, so? What exactly is your point? The whole server is connected. It's Lion's Arch EVERYWHERE you play. Lion's Arch is literally the only social part of GW2. You don't even do anything in there, you're pretty much standing there chatting. Whilst EVERYWHERE else you feel alone(as in, you don't feel part of the GW2 community).

.... Are you an imbecile? Obviously HUNDREDS of people in PoE aren't going to be chatting all at once, they have some respect for other players have to say.

Try using that experiment in GW2 for every zone, you would get 1/10th of the people playing the game using ingame chat.

Again, what exactly is your point? This forum was a mere example I was using. It would be no different if I used the official forums as an example instead of this one-- or any popular forums 4chan, bodybuilding misc, reddit.

And no, to anyone who thinks so, i'm not bashing GW2. I have no doubt that this game will be very well evolved by the next official expansion, but as of right now, the game feels extremely underdeveloped moreso than it was in the BWE's.

Uhm... It looks like you went the exact opposite direction with your "revised" build. You can clearly see he has shout healing. I am guessing a 10/0/20/30/10 build. An odd choice though that he doesnt have merciless hammer traited. might be turtles defense or balanced stance there. He might not even have 20 points in toughness at all, maybe just 15 (for the healing). I dont see quite where those 5 missing points would go however - he doesnt seem to bleed with the hammer and he doesnt have swap reduction. I also doubt he has warriors sprint traited, more likely 9% crit judging by the crit focus in the build. With a guild you have pretty much 100% uptime on swiftness anyway.

Funny thing is that one thing doesn't exclude the other.
I'm also officer in a pretty lively guild, I do loads of dungeon/fractal runs, I try to help guildies as often as possible, and I often do paid/free tournys too cause PvP is the most interesting part in any game for me.

That is the complete opposite of what I believe, actually. A solo experience within an MMORPG has the potential to still be an extremely social game. If GW2 was a single player game, it would still have the absolute potential to become a "social hub," and feel like a community.

The social problem in GW2 is not entirely that most people would rather solo the whole PvE aspect of it, rather than group up and do events together. The problem is that we lack proper social communication features such as global chat/server chat.

Take this forum for example, this isn't a game. But, hundreds of people go on here to chat and discuss different topics. If we were able to chat and discuss things with a community of at least a hundred WHILE playing the game, it wouldn't be such a failure. Instead we're grouped up with 5-20 people in one zone, and since we're constantly wping-->wping-->wping, we barely have the time to have conversations or ask for help.  

Here's a great example of a "socially successful" community; note the global chat:

PoE is basically a solo instanced game like GW1 or Diablo, where you can party up with 2-6 players. Many players prefer not to party, so they can farm dungeons themselves. Yet, the game remains much more social than GW2 because of the global chat (in red). You see many players constantly chatting it up and it feels JUST like a community should feel. You never feel alone because of the chat.

Note: This video is recorded during CLOSED beta, meaning there are only probably 50-100 active players at this one time. (not many people bought or received a key) Yet, it still remains socially successful.

Human beings are not social creatures by nature. They are social out of need.