How many are we?

So, this is something I have wondered about for more than a month, how many players are playing GW? I remember when I bought my first GW it was written on the CD box "over than 1,000,000 registered users". Obviously most of us noticed that today this number is not so accurate...

I do want to know if there's a way to check how many players are playing on the Europian servers and how many on the American ones.. And a general count...

thanks!

"Registered Users" and "Active Players" are two different things. There are still well over 1 million "Registered Users". As far as Active Players, there's not really any way to tell, short of sending out some sort of Guild Wars Census, or getting a number from ANet.

There's a difference between registered users and active users. There is no actual count of how many players are active, there are probably ~1.5 million accounts out there.

Yeah, I mean how many Active Players are we in total count...
Who cares about the registered accounts if half of them forgot the game.

Call us Legion,for we are many.

There are currently over 5 million registered accounts.
However, that does not mean there are that many active players. Also, I know a few people with multiple accounts, one guy has 10 accounts (he leads all 10 guilds in his alliance)

No, there are over 6 million copies sold of all GW campaigns and expansions. 1 account could have all 3 campaigns plus the expansion, which counts as 4 copies sold.


I could not even venture a guess as to how many players are active.

no.

It's pretty difficult to estimate actual population.

Unknown really

The company will give the most generous figure to encourage more buyers and the districts do fill up at certain times of the day especially the American one.

Given the current state of PVP as reported by complaining players and the age of the game I suspect the figure to be much lower than quoted.

Don't forget A LOT of people have multiple accounts.
A lot of people I know usually have 1 to 3 accounts with some even having 5 or more!

So if you average it out, 1.5 Million unique accounts created.

You also have to take into account the Master Accounts that were created for trials that expired but were never deleted. Im betting the # is wayyyyyyyyyyy lower than a million.

ID say there is now aprox 250.000 active users, Or less

This is the kind of answer I was looking for, thanks.
Now I wonder why WOW is more successful than GW :/

Because WoW is more flashy and retard orientated. Standard tank and spank, bad but flashy graphics, buttonmash pvp(also imbalanced but so is GW). It also charges a monthly fee so they can update it way more often than GW. It's also more of a timesink, you can nolife PvP in Guild Wars but thats it, everything else is static, once you beat it/get the best gear thats it.

What I think anyway

Guild Wars is the second most popular online RPG-style game in the West (thus excluding Asia where WoW is not that popular either). If ArenaNet had continued to produce new campaigns for it, I imagine the current population would be larger in game (instead they are all now hooked on guildwars2guru). The game is designed for casual play, so players come and go. Some even play WoW.

As for player population, there seems to be enough to keep ArenaNet paying the expenses of the servers and the Live Team.

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Edit: I apologize for seeming to knock WoW, sight unseen. It was wrong of me and off topic on top of that.

As someone who actually has played WoW, I can tell you that there are a lot of things to like about WoW. Yes, there are players like you describe, but those type of players exist in GW too. In actual fact there are more things in WoW (such as crafting) to get into, than there are in GW (but, of course, it costs more to play.)

At any rate, I don't wish to start (yet another) WoW vs GW debate. It's pointless. They are both good games and both have their followers. But, I do think it's ridiculous to make statements about WoW without ever having played it - perhaps, while waiting for GW2, you could try the WoW free trial.

@OP - as has been said, there's no way for us to determine that answer. I'm sure that ANet could provide an answer, but I'm also reasonably sure that they won't. My guess, based upon the general number of players I see in towns, etc., is that the number of "active" GW plays is a lot lower than it was. More than 250(.000) but a lot less than 250,000 - probably in the 10s of thousands.

...a third of which are cash-for-gold-ad-spammer bots from asia.

I'm sure Anet has a sense for the size of their active player base, and what they anticipate in the future both before and after the release date is announced for gw2. They aren't just winging it. That's not the kind of info you share with the public under most circumstances.

with all the people with multiple accounts (upwards of 15 accounts for one person) I think it would pretty hard to figure out how many people there are let alone active players

Could've as easily guessed something yourself. I don't know where Pleikki got that figure, but is hardly backed up by facts.