fewer people playing guild wars?

I just started a new character in pre-searing today, and there usually is at least 2-3 full districts full of people in pre-searing, the abby and so on, but i was there in prime time and not that many people there?:S

Ascalon city is the same. its usually is 5-6 districts, but now its between 1 and 2.

So im wondering - have people stopped playing or are everyone just over in factions? there are allot of new areas added were people can chat, trade and hang out, but i also think that there are much fewer guild battles going on when im using observer mode.


I play on EU distrcits, so I got no idea if its the same in the US districts or korean or japanese ones. Are there any other EU people who feel the same, or is it just me?

the game is bigger now.. i'm guessing people are just spread out a lot more between areas.

I still usually see around 6-7 ascalon city districts for America. Not much different than before.

fewer ppl playing GW now

If only this were true... no wait I am glad its not. Most people have relocated to Factions, as can be told by the ~15 districts of Kainegen and Shing Jea.

Elona Reach has three districts of monk bots.

It depends on where you go. A lot of the jungle missions are out and out dead as people don't need them. ToA is down to 3 or 4 districts when America has favor, and THK, Sanctum, LA, Droks, and other trading or choke points still have a population of sorts (but not what it once was). At some of the isolated outposts, I have been completely alone, like Ice Caves and Maguma...

Once I get my Protector of Tyria title, I am probably gonna be outta there except for occasional FoW and Underworld runs.

Haven't really noticed...I've been playing with some of my guildies capping some skills and completing quests in Tyria. I don't have Factions yet..

I think everybody's in Breaker Hollow in Cantha.

less people playing. at release of GW i recall seeing 70+ districs in ascalon city. i havent seen anything like that yet in factions.

Uh, Kaineng City on a regular basis has 18 districts. Low end towns have 2-7. Very active.

At release of factions (officially) I can remember Kaineng having about 80 districts. Maybe it was alot more than that. I got to Kaineng on the 2nd-3rd day of release.

Ascalon city is going to be dead for awhile. Nobody is going to fight their Canthan characters all the way back to Ascalon city just to hang out in the dust >.>

Until they add the ability to have character's go back and do early missions (for title reason's) I would use LA, Drak's as more of a gage of how many people are in C1.

I would NOT use any cities in the wilds as a gage, a lot of people skipped them before factions game out. Henge of Denravi.. the forgotten captial..

One reason there was once 70 distrcits of post-AC was that at Prophecies release *everyone* was on the same page. No one rushed, everyone was taking their time, exploring Ascalon and doing the quests that were there instead of rushing them. Now, most people will step into KC, get the skills and quests they need, and be on their way.

Id say maybe a few less people playing, but not a huge amount. Some people got their taste and moved on, and others are still coming in to try.

I remember Gaile saying somthing to this affect a few months ago at the guild hall, sorry no link, "We have updated our equipment so we can put more people in fewer districts" then she said some statistics about we are actually at an all time high of players.

It could be some gw propaganda, but that was her reason

The first wave of GW players (like me) are now all Ritualists and Assassins, playing PVP and doing the missions in Cantha. No reason to play in Tyria, we did that for a year.

could also be because it's exam time for us students with intentions of getting good grades or passing or plain just being banned from the comp by parents >.>

She said that?

Heh,indeed. Also,Willy I know I'll probably go back to Tyria just to hang out in the Shiverpeaks or the Henge of Denravi for some peace and quiet. (Mainly the Henge of Denravi for the peace and quiet bit)

She did, she mentioned the game will appear to have fewer districts but not due to less players. They optimized / changed the code to get more "packed" districts vs lots of nearly empty districts.

And other have a points, Factions launches, EVERYONE is in the starting area but as time goes on it spreads out.

The "empty" zone such as Henge of Denravi reminds in in FFXI on some level up tired zone's become vacant.

Example, each start kingoms has three "tired" zones with monsters levels before it converge's to a central area (for all three countries). When I started playing there was a cave in the 2nd teir to the Windurst county... towards the end of me playing, NO one leveled there, they went to the central area and way early levels. And since all the parties migrated to the central area...

That and most players quite FFXI in 1 to 2 years.. and I don't think the addition of new players spike that much either...

(FFXI does NOT like you soloing past a certain level unless you play the ONE job, beastmaster)

It is about the same in presearing before Factions came out it is just the numbers are dwindleing.That is all really but there is till a good number in pre as for the that black oil.It is also the best place to farm.

When the emperor came on head-start day to give the world's ugliest helmets there were some 55 german district, 50 english districts, 30 french, and quite a few italian and spanish districts on the European servers.

The helmet is so ugly I had to get one for my ranger too, first one was for the assasin.